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…
County Health Deploys HazMat Team After Petroleum Coke Dust Release In Martinez Friday
The Contra Costa County Health department was notified of a release of petroleum coke dust at the Martinez Refining Company plant on Friday morning, sending a HazMat team to the area to monitor what, if any, effect the release had on surrounding neighborhoods. Flash users and Facebook subscribers lit up those interfaces with news of…
Barriers Back Up In Broadway Plaza After Tuesday Morning Ram Raid
The city installed barriers on either end of Broadway Plaza after the infamous 2021 Nordstrom robbery, the barriers preventing cars from driving through the shopping district for more than a year. Those barriers were removed in March of this year, the city taking steps to increase protection for downtown merchants. Tonight, Tuesday, after early morning Ram…
NEWS24/680: “We Deal In Now…”
One of our small but merry staff gave us the title for today’s effort, explaining our model to a call-in subscriber convinced we were robots and AI-generated minions of some giant super-corporation. “Nope, all human,” our man told the suspicious caller. “Call anytime. We deal in now.” We liked that so, we’re using it today.…