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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…
Read MoreOur 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…
Read MoreSuspect 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…
Read MoreLetters: “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…
Read MoreWe’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.…
Read MoreFire Ravages Orinda Home Sunday
Fire at a home on Arroyo Drive in Orinda brought Moraga-Orinda Fire District firefighters to the scene early Sunday – with the first calls for assistance arriving at 4:53 a.m. Neighbors reported hearing muffled explosions shortly before seeing smoke and flame coming from the garage area of a home in the first block of Arroyo…
Read More“Lockdown… Schmockdown… I’m Comin’ Through…”
We’re meant to be staying appropriately distant from one another these days but apparently the 68-year-old driver of this Dodge Ram was tired of sheltering in his place – and decided to shelter in someone else’s. At around 5:30 p.m. Saturday the driver got a little wonky on Hawthorne Drive in unincorporated Walnut Creek, struck…
Read MoreFund Established For Bay Area Residents Impacted By COVID-19
MARTINEZ — Beyond its devastating health implications, COVID-19 is undermining basic living conditions for tens of thousands of people living in the Bay Area, especially those that are most vulnerable. The Contra Costa Regional Health Foundation (CCRHF) has established a COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund, and has been selected as a lead partner organization in the…
Read MoreIf Moraga Cannot Come To The Music, Then The Music Must Go To Moraga…
Moragans love their music. We don’t call this place MoTown for mere grins, after all. And as we are all officially housebound these days and starved for tunes local DJ Ryan O took his itinerant cabaret on the road Saturday – touring a series of neighborhoods in turn and giving an audience of masked locals…
Read MoreWoman Struck, Killed By Brick Tossed At Car On SR-242 Friday
California Highway Patrol investigators are looking for the person who threw a brick at a passing Volkswagen Jetta on SR-242 in Concord Friday night – striking and killing a 63-year-old female passenger. Officers responded to the SR-242 transition to SR-4 at approximately 9:32 p.m. Friday after being advised of a single-car crash in that area.…
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