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The Sunday Smelter
How are those taxes coming, everyone? Getting those big tax breaks we heard was coming? Or are your accountants just muttering and rubbing their heads a lot? It’s that time of year again, of course, and there’s no getting out of it unless you’re already rich and have the right people managing your offshore account,…
Read MoreSan Ramon Police Arrest Concord Man After Recent Burglaries
From the San Ramon Police Department: During the morning hours of March 26, 2019, the San Ramon Police Department responded to a construction site at the Faria Preserve Development for a report of a commercial burglary. The suspect(s) broke the locks off of multiple storage containers at the site and stole power tools, home construction…
Read More“Welcome Back, Engine 16!” – Con Fire Crew Returns To Lafayette After 6-Year Absence
After a six-plus year absence, Con Fire Engine 16 is once again serving the people of the City of Lafayette and surrounding communities. Back in service in anticipation of the opening of the new Fire Station 16 on Los Arabis Drive later this spring, Engine 16 and crew are temporarily operating out of Fire Station…
Read MoreWalnut Creek Police Arrest Newark Man For Attempted Kidnapping With An Intent To Rape; Stun Gun Used
On March 26, 2019 at approximately 7:20 AM, Walnut Creek Police received a 911 call from a female victim regarding an assault that had just occurred. The victim reported that while she was walking from her residence to her vehicle, she was approached and assaulted with a stun gun by an unknown male suspect. The…
Read MoreLafayette Metallurgist Charged In Berkeley Cadmium Poisoning Plot
A Lafayette man and Berkeley engineer has been charged with trying to kill a colleague by putting toxic cadmium into her food and water since 2017, according to court papers filed in support of his arrest. Berkeley police arrested David Xu, 34, of Lafayette on Thursday. He has been charged with premeditated attempted murder resulting…
Read More“There Are Eight Million Stories In The 24/680…”
We’re not sure how many of you will remember this old television show. It was East Coast-centric but the central theme still holds: there are millions of people living in our Naked Cities (and suburban towns), almost all of them with a story to tell. We come into contact with a lot of them, naturally,…
Read MoreNoise Issues Cropping Up In Danville, San Ramon, Mora… Well, Just About Everywhere In The 24/680. Citizens Unhappy.
Veteran readers know we have a thing about unnecessary noise. We try not to give voice to it much anymore because, well, things are quiet around the News Bunker and people don’t like a Squeaky Wheel squeaking about the same thing over and over again. We’ve just said local noise pollution is a problem, it…
Read MoreThe Sunday Subsidence
Nothing really changes, right? We stomp and flail and make loud sounds about conditions that concern/bother/scare us and demand that “something be done” and we pin our hopes on that elusive Hollywood ending that all things will be made right – only to have those hopes dashed on the rocks like a wayward fishing boat.…
Read MorePaltry Half A Million Dollars Needed To Finalize Painted Rock Acquisition – Organizers Making Final Push
From the folks at John Muir Land Trust: Thanks to you and other JMLT supporters and to a very successful Plan a Park Public Meeting, we are almost there! With just 63 days before the deadline, JMLT is approaching the $2 million needed to save Painted Rock. Goal: $2 million needed by May 31, 2019 Raised to…
Read MoreOld Glory, Topping Tree Hoisted Aloft Tuesday As County Celebrates “Topping Out” Of Its New Administration Building
(Martinez, CA) – On March 26, 2019, Contra Costa County’s Board of Supervisors, Chief Administrative Officer, staff and building partners celebrated the “Topping Out” of its new administrative building in Martinez. The ceremony on the new site marks the placement of the last piece of structural steel on the construction, a significant milestone for the…
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