More Letters: County Putting Developer Profits Ahead Of Public Safety?

Subject: North Gate Road Residents Fear for Their Safety as County Puts Developer Profits Ahead of Public Safety Editor; Outraged neighbors fear for their safety over the planned 19-Lot subdivision at 1125 Northgate Rd. (County File #CDSD24-09696) just outside the gates to Mt. Diablo State park and within a Cal Fire Very High Fire Hazard…

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Knightsen: Annual Clean Up Day – Aug. 29

Pack Up Your Trash & Head to the Knightsen Community Clean Up Take part in the 2026 Annual Clean-Up Day with the Knightsen Municipal Advisory Council in partnership with Mt. Diablo Resource Recovery and hosted by District 3 Supervisor, Diane Burgis. Saturday, August 29, 2026 Knightsen Avenue & A Street 8:00 am – 12:00 pm…

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Letters: North Gate Road Development Segregates Low-Income Families

Subject: Urgent — 1125 North Gate Road Development Segregates Low-Income Families Before Monday’s Vote To the Editor, I’m writing with urgency because the Board votes Monday on the proposed 19-lot development at 1125 North Gate Road, and there’s a detail in this plan that deserves scrutiny before that vote happens: the developer’s site plan places…

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Walnut Creek Shooting Range Proposal Drawing Support, Public Critique

A proposal to convert a former carpet store into an indoor shooting range complete with nine shooting lanes comes before the Walnut Creek Design Review Commission at their regularly scheduled meeting tonight, Wednesday. No direct action is anticipated, with the commission expected to evaluate plans to convert the former Lewis & Lewis Carpets store into…

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San Ramon Armed Robbery Suspects Cornered In Oakland

Two armed men assaulted and robbed a third man at the Cobblestone Apartments, 3900 block of Crow Canyon Road, on Tuesday before fleeing in a silver sedan, according to the San Ramon police department. A department release said the crime took place at approximately 6:49 p.m. with the suspects leaving the area in a 2015…

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Collision With Serious Injury Under Investigation In Concord

Busy day in the 24/680 with “What’s Going On? calls coming in steadily. Sadly, investigators are working out what happened on Clayton Road at Talisman in Concord after a person they believed had been struck by a vehicle was found seriously injured in the area. The victim was transported to hospital with serious head and…

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Jacquez Promoted To Assistant Sheriff Role

From the Office of the Sheriff: Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston announces the promotion of Captain Charlene Jacquez to the rank of Assistant Sheriff. Captain Charlene Jacquez began her public safety career in 1999 with the City of Galt Police Department, serving as both a 9-1-1 Dispatcher and Community Service Officer (CSO). In 2001,…

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Not So Fast, 24/680 People – Today Is Soup Day

We’ve been fasting. That means purposefully not eating – not churning out copy more speedily. Right-thinking readers may see this and say: “Okay, but why?” and we get that, most folks don’t make a conscious decision to stop eating. We do this for a number of reasons, chief among them we like to challenge ourselves…

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Hydrant Shear Draws A Crowd In Walnut Creek Saturday

Photos from the scene of that gusher on Ygnacio Valley Road this afternoon, right in front of… well, you can read the address. It was impressive, with firefighters stopping to admire it’s spoutiness and the poor driver worried about his future employment (Hey, UPS, cut the poor guy some slack!) Anyway, the flow has been…

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