Gardeners, Fresh Food Fanciers Living Near Martinez Refinery Advised Not To Eat Their Crops
From County Health: With spring and gardening season arriving, Contra Costa Health (CCH) is advising residents near the refinery in Martinez not to eat produce grown in soil that may have been exposed to “spent catalyst” with heavy metals until further environmental testing is completed. “We are making this recommendation out of an abundance of…
Sorry, Ray, Nighttime Isn’t Always The Right Time…
Drummers, Zoomers, Gunners and Thunder Runners were all out and about Tuesday evening – despite temperatures dipping into the Twenties in places. Not to mention those Jimmy Stewart (Rear Window) Burglars and Cat Converter thieves, who seem impervious to weather of any kind, and who appear willing to work at any hour. Unsure if it’s…
Tesla-Defiling Cow Triggers Police Response In Pleasanton – And No End Of Cow Puns
Some of us here in Semi-Rural Suburbia have had occasion to interact with meandering cows, emus, horses, pigs and even the intermittent alpaca. It’s part of living out here in “The Country,” where the air is as fresh as the eggs in our chicken coops, and our critters are honored, curried, and cared for so…
Lafayette Family Hit Hard By Back Slider Burglars
Veteran readers are aware (hopefully) of the burglary crews currently at work in the 24/680. Practiced, and very slippery, these crews strike at all hours and are entering homes through rear sliding glass doors. Another local family, living in the 3000 block of Plymouth Road in Lafayette, was victimized this week. “Unfortunately our home on…
A Human Is Writing This – We Swear
Despite the brief “Olly Olly Oxen free!” respite the weekend provides we’re spending it absorbing national news and keeping an eye on our neighborhoods. Things have been kind of rough, we don’t have to tell you. Unless you’re one of the “I Live Under a Rock and That’s The Way I Like It”-people out there…
Return Of The Black Mercedes – This Time To Lamorinda
A prolific crew of house burglars using a black Mercedes to ferry themselves to their jobs and the rear sliding doors of their victims to make entry returned to the 24/680 for the second straight night Saturday, striking at last three times in Orinda and Moraga before fleeing for the Caldecott Tunnel with police in…
Up And At ‘Em 24/680 People – “There’s A Storm Coming”
Stuff is happening and we’re up to get a jump on it, believing the old adage that the Early Bird gets first shot at the Breville latte maker. When we say we work for beans around here we mean it, some kind-hearted soul donating a bag of coffee beans to keep our small squad on…
Grab N’ Go Theft At Walnut Creek Apple Store Saturday
Shoppers at the Walnut Creek Apple store, 1200 S. Main Street, said they scattered or stood by as a crew of thieves descended on the store to steal phones and computers from the business at 11:23 a.m. Saturday. Customers, at least one of whom expressed surprise to find no mention of the commercial burglary in…
Family Of Missing Pittsburg Youth Find Him Alongside Highway 4 In Concord Saturday
The family of a missing Pittsburg man found his body alongside Highway 4 Saturday. The body of Damond Lazenby Jr., 19, was found in an area that had been searched by police and volunteers earlier in the week, according to Concord police. In a release issued through their Facebook page investigators said they do not have…
A New Day – And A Wet Weekend – Is Upon Us
PG&E’s Mount Diablo Cam captures dawning of a new day: What will it bring? Rain, we’re told, which is both good for us and bad. We’re out and about, check in when you can… if you can.