“Did The Shepherd Make It?” “Lady Of The Light,” “Bip Me, Baby”
Quite the week with positions on the Oddities Bingo Card filling up quickly. And that’s just the stuff that made it into print. Because as you may suspect there’s a lot going on behind the scenes of our Little Local News Shop – much of it just not ready or suitable for prime time. Back…
Overpass Demonstrations In The 24/680 Friday
People with various political positions and sentiments took to local overpasses to express themselves Friday before rainfall brought many of the flags down and forced the demonstrators to cover. No problems reported, with varying positions represented on individual overpasses. This one was in Lafayette, though Flashers and other tipsters reported seeing flags of a countering…
Where “The Invisibles” Live…
We see many of them moving around at night, resisting offers of shelter – and we wonder where they go. This is the Olympic Boulevard off-ramp from southbound I680 in Walnut Creek.
Welcome To Friday! We’re Off And Running…
What a night and early morning. We’re exhausted and hitting the coffeemaker. Burglars doing what they do and coming in through the back door in Walnut Creek and then a high-rise fire alarm call that shut down N. Main Street in the city while The Fire People evacced residents and eventually tracked the source of…
The NEWS24/680 Week In Review – Col. Jessup Edition
All in all a breathless week in the 24/680 with all sorts of news breaking, aspersions cast, dubious discoveries made and Halloween Hijinks thrown in for a little color. We’ve named this screed for Jack Nicholson’s bellicose character in A Few Good Men and his famously ad-libbed “You can’t handle...” line because The Truth, apparently,…
Life And Death In ‘BurbLandia; Junk Mail; The Orange Cowboy
Caught in a swirl of stories and happenings in the 24/680 lately, some of them our own circling back to reach us as new – some funny and others not so much – but all part of that treadmill we’re on, each of us stamped with our own expiration date and walking till we stop.…
Hot Cars, Drills And Spills, And Upstaging Quakes
Busy Wednesday in the 24/680 as stolen and otherwise wanted cars zip to and fro, police officers tiptoe through the neighbor’s rose bushes, some school drills go awry and an actual quake clears its throat a day ahead of a planned, statewide earthquake drill. As if we’re not all edgy enough – our phones are…
Circuitous Oakland PD Chase Bisects Lamorinda Wednesday
An air and ground pursuit of three men wanted in connection with an assault with a deadly weapon case in Oakland whipsawed through Lamorinda – entering from the Canyon side – and briefly toured the area before heading back to Berkeley on westbound Highway 24 Wednesday. The pursuit, which at times included several police cars…
Tuesday TattleTales – Zoomies, Movies, Flying Tortillas, Andy Goes Bad
Full of The Stoke this morning as The Rolling Stones, Stripped is thundering the newsroom and breathing new life into the gasping, heaving newsies who chased stories and jet fighters over the weekend and on into the early morning hours of this new week. Funny how it took some punky, gittar-slingin’ English Boys to figure…