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The Monday Meanderings
Fresh back from the Morning Walkabout and listening to the joints crackle and pop like that breakfast cereal. Not exactly Force 10 winds out there but so cold our garden plants held their limbs up like needy children when we made it back – begging to be taken inside. We’d suggest getting those folks unfortunate…
Read MoreMoonrise Over The 24/680
Out and about and appreciating the beauty of our area at night. If you’re on the road, take it easy out there – everyone makes it home safely tonight!
Read MoreUnlimited Journeys Marks Opening Of Corporate Headquarters Offices In Concord
Business Name: Unlimited Journeys Travel Phone: 925-832-2900 Type of Business: Travel Agency Years in Business: 30 Address: 140 Mason Cir, Ste K, Concord, CA 94520 Hours: 830am – 530pm Daily Web: Unlimited Journeys Travel Business Notes: Unlimited Journeys Travel celebrates the opening of our newly expanded corporate headquarters offices located at 140 Mason Cir. Suite…
Read MoreMartinez PD Warns Locals Of Phone Scammers Using Their Name
From Martinez PD: Recently, several citizens have been contacted by person(s) claiming to represent law enforcement (even impersonating Martinez Police Officers via a fake phone number that appears to be from our dispatch center). Scammers can use various methods to imitate local phone numbers, and often use threats of arrest or negative legal action to…
Read MoreCarport Fire Damages Rossmoor Housing Friday
Tense moments in Rossmoor this afternoon when fire broke out in a carport below housing units in the 1800 block of Golden Rain Road. Firefighters arrived quickly to apply chemical foam and water but at least two cars were damaged and units above the blaze also sustained damage. The blaze, reportedly started when an overheated…
Read MoreTeens Unleash Chemical Agent Aboard BART Train Thursday; Arrests Made, 2 Treated
An apparent fight aboard an Antioch-bound train approaching Lafayette BART resulted in the use of a chemical agent aboard the train Thursday, several arrests once the train pulled into the station and at least two hospitalizations. The incident was reported at approximately 5:15pm with multiple agencies descending on Lafayette BART in preparation of the train’s…
Read MoreLetters: The Satire Strikes Back
To The Editor; I just wanted to take a moment to luxuriate in the delicious irony that came with news that rotund gasbag Alex “I’ll Say Anything for Money” Jones has lost his mechanism of disinformation – Infowars – to the satirical news publication The Onion. The sweet flush of satisfaction I was beginning to…
Read MoreMoraga’s Campolindo High School, Other Bay Area Schools Targeted In Mass Swatting Incident
A specific threat of an armed person on the campus at Moraga’s Campolindo High School brought police on the double Tuesday with officers conducting a thorough search of the school before it was determined similar phone threats had been made to other area schools. The threats were similar in that they mentioned a specific, vengeful…
Read MoreChain-Snatching Crew Strikes In San Ramon Tuesday
A San Ramon woman was pushed to the ground and robbed of her jewelry by a trio of suspects traveling in a black SUV or van Tuesday. The victim was attacked at approximately 10:40 a.m. in the area of Carousel Place and Dos Rios. One or more of the two women and one man believed…
Read MoreBurglary Attempt Triggers Pursuit, Crash In Concord Wednesday – 2 Arrested
A search for suspected car burglars touched off a high-speed pursuit on Highway 24 in Lafayette early Wednesday morning, multiple local agencies giving chase until the suspect vehicle crashed through a Concord intersection after turning its lights out. Two men who exited the wreckage were eventually arrested after fleeing on foot – one sustaining a…
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