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Danville Residents To Decide On Landscape/Lighting Rate Hike

From the Town of Danville: Danville property owners to vote on funding for parks, street lights, landscaping and other amenities. DANVILLE, Calif. (March 19, 2025): The Danville Town Council has approved Resolution No. 22-2025, which initiates a vote on proposed adjustments to the Town’s Lighting and Landscape Assessment District (LLAD), which was last voted on…

Shooting Under Investigation In Concord Tuesday, One Wounded

One person was shot and wounded in an apparent drive-by shooting near the 2200 block of Huron Drive and Esperanza in Concord Monday. The victim either drove himself or was driven to an area hospital in a car pocked by a bullet hole through a window. All information is preliminary and unconfirmed but initial reports…

DA And Broadband Provider Settle Over Environmental Violations

From the Office of the District Attorney: Martinez, California – Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton announces, in conjunction with five other District Attorneys in California, a 1.275-million-dollar settlement with WaveDivision Holdings, LLC — which operates under the brand name “Astound Broadband” within California — over environmental violations. WaveDivision Holdings, which provides telecommunication services…

Crashes, Police Search Halt Highway 24 Traffic Monday

Highway 24 from Lafayette to Orinda was a hot mess most of the afternoon and on into the evening Monday with several multi-vehicle crashes and a police search lasting until almost midnight. Neighbors reported hearing “a very loud crash and then a flash of light” at about 10pm on the freeway near where it crosses…

Stubborn Vehicle Fire Tests Firefighters In Walnut Creek Friday

Bit of a field problem for firefighters in Walnut Creek Friday night as a cleaning truck caught fire and burned stubbornly at Oakland Boulevard and Ygnacio Valley just before 10 p.m. We’re not sure what was in that truck but it did not want to go out. Firefighters beat down several re-kindles and eventually won…

Bay Area Health Officials Urge Measles Vaccination As Cases Rise Nationally

From Contra Costa Health: Risk of exposure to measles in the Bay Area is currently low. However, with rising cases in the United States, getting the safe and highly effective vaccine is strongly encouraged for those not fully vaccinated. With the recent rise of measles cases nationally, Contra Costa Health (CCH) joins Bay Area health…

One Dead In Highway 24 Crash At Wilder Friday

One person was killed in an apparent chain-reaction crash on eastbound Highway 24 at the Wilder offramp in Orinda Friday, traffic snarling as the California Highway Patrol declared a SigAlert for the area. Passersby attended the victim, believed to have been ejected from one of as many as three cars involved in the crash. Our…

Student-On-Teacher Assault Shocks Danville’s Monte Vista High School Monday

A disturbing lunchtime assault by a student on a teacher at Danville’s Monte Vista High School Monday has triggered a police investigation and some questions about campus safety. As we reported at the time, an unidentified student assaulted one of their teachers in the classroom at the school, reportedly knocking the teacher to the ground…

County Supervisors Appoint Interim Health Director

From the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors: Board of Supervisors Appoints Interim Contra Costa Health Director (Martinez, CA) – On Tuesday, the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors appointed Dr. Ori Tzvieli as interim director of health services while the County launches a search for a permanent Chief Executive Officer and Health Director for…

LETTERS: America First Or America On Its Own?

To the Editor: Being of a certain age I’m troubled by America’s apparent abandonment of any real foreign policy and its adoption of an approach made infamous by British prime minister Neville Chamberlain in the 1930s. Appeasement didn’t work when it came to “Mister Hitler” and it won’t work with Mister Putin. While his cultist…