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New Masking Order For Essential Business Workers Effective April 22

From Contra Costa Health Services: A new health order in Contra Costa County requires anyone working at or visiting an essential business, such as a grocery store or gas station, to wear face coverings to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. The order, effective Wednesday, April 22, also requires public transit and government workers to…

One Dead After Driver Crashes Stolen Car In Martinez Friday

Approximately 1:35am Friday morning, Contra Costa CHP was advised of an overturned solo vehicle collision on HWY-4 westbound, east of Franklin Canyon road. Officers discovered the unidentified male driver had been ejected from a silver Volvo and was found lying in the roadway. The driver was pronounced deceased at the scene by emergency personnel. A…

Interrupted Body Dump In Canyon Triggers Police Pursuit; Female Victim Recovered – Alive

A chance sighting of a white cargo van with a woman’s battered and bloodied body inside triggered a multi-jurisdiction police pursuit and a shooting Thursday after the driver of the van allegedly tried to dump the woman in Canyon, south of Moraga. Investigators now believe the woman was kidnapped by a Vallejo man, identified as…

County Health Delivers Sanitation Stations To Homeless Camps In Effort To Curtail Virus Spread

Contra Costa County and several of its cities are working to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in local homeless encampments by placing handwashing stations and portable toilets near them. Four hand-washing stations and four portable toilets with attached hand-washing stations were placed at Martinez’s Waterfront Amphitheater on Tuesday, the first of several sanitation equipment deliveries…

Kids And Imaginations Running Wild…

Hearing from quite a number of parents out there, running out of things to do to keep their children entertained during this Enforced Romper Room we’re all under. Many are loving the time with the nestlings, finding humor and hope in their observations and childlike approach to things. Others, well, are running out of cool…

Assistance Program Helps Lafayette Businesses With Loan And Grant Applications

From the City of Lafayette: The City of Lafayette has partnered with the Chamber of Commerce and Townsend Public Affairs to launch the Lafayette Business Assistance Program, a way for Lafayette businesses and non-profits to get help on Small Business Administration (SBA) loan and grant applications. The City designed the program to make it as…

Our Grand Re-Opening: How Open Will Open Be? And When Should Business, Schools, Others Open Their Doors?

Various sectors have been pushing hard for a re-opening of businesses and enterprises that went to ground in the face of the Vile Virus and it appears that our leaders, decision-makers are headed in that direction. Our question to you today would be: When? And if the doors are thrown open again and we are…

Suspect Arrested In Assault With A Deadly Weapon Incident In Pacheco

From the Office of the Sheriff: On Saturday, April 11, 2020, at about 8:29 PM, the Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff received reports of a stabbing at the 5800 block of Pacheco Boulevard in Pacheco. Deputy Sheriffs arrived finding two stabbing victims. The suspect, who apparently used scissors, fled the scene. The fire…

Letters: “Hey! I’m Walking Heah… I’m Walking…”

Editor; As a follow-up to your post regarding ‘We’re Cracking a Little Bit’ I would like to remind people of certain forms of behavior when walking and riding a bike that is not only courteous but are rules. I am speaking of Iron Horse Trail on the Danville/Alamo section. I have been using that trail…

We’re Cracking A Little…

When you think of it, with most of the country locked down and steering clear of others, we’ve been doing a pretty great job. That effort is starting to have a positive impact on our overall hospitalization rates – something for which we are endlessly grateful – even as we mourn those we have lost.…