The Hyperbole Factory Is Open – And Triggered
Good morning, Fair Neighbors, greetings and felicitations on a soft second day of the week. We’re in a News Cycle, it seems, and we were at the helm last night when federal employees in jackets with big yellow letters on them visited a certain private residence in Palm Beach and rummaged around, searching for exactly…
Memorial Appears At Scene Of Fatal Walnut Creek DUI Crash
Friends and family of a young woman killed by a suspected DUI driver on N. Main Street in Walnut Creek early Saturday morning are leaving tributes in her memory at the crash site. Family members identified Maricarmen Leon of Discovery Bay as the young woman killed in the early morning crash, which also left a…
Ranchers, “Doc Quack,” Others Nurse “Eaglet With A ‘Tude” Back To Health
From the East Bay Regional Park District: Oakland, CA – The dramatic rescue of an injured bald eagle fledgling from the debris of a fallen nest on ranch land adjacent to Del Valle Regional Park in Livermore had those involved in the effort all aflutter for the last half of June. Thanks to a collaboration…
Hellooo Wednesday!
And we’re off and running with an overnight shooting in Rodeo (leg wound), a suspicious death in San Ramon, a working fire in Danville (about out now, 10 a.m.) and a fresh pursuit in Lafayette. We’ll have to wait and see what the rest of the day has in store for us.
One Injured In Rollover Crash In Clayton Sunday
One of our Flashers sent word of an overturned vehicle in the creek bed not far from the 4800 block of Leon Drive in Clayton on Sunday. The crash, reported a little after 1 p.m., startled nearby residents who reported a person trapped in the wreckage of a small truck. Although there was water in…
“You Can’t See Me, I’m Camouflaged!”
Reflective vest. Clipboard. Gardening or construction implement – all as common in Suburbia as kids in soccer togs and bikes left on the front lawn. In Pleasanton last weekend some locals observed a man in one of those vests trundling a backpack sprayer around the neighborhood – occasionally sawing at a padlock on a nearby…
Thursday Starts With A Gush In Concord
A miscalculation by the driver of a Mercedes sedan turned into a Vegas-style water fountain at Arnold Industrial Way and Solano Avenue in Concord Thursday morning – with a lot of precious water going down the drain as a result.
Happy Birthday To Us, America…
… enjoy the day. But we’ve got work to do.
Crockett-Martinez Folks, Businesses Without Power – Again. Wondering Why…
Along with all those other shortfalls and shortages we’re being asked to contend with this summer is one very important one – electricity – and residents living along the water in northernmost Contra Costa are feeling especially put upon. “Three times in the past week for at least 4 hours each,” one wrote Sunday morning.…
Protestors Turn Out In Walnut Creek Friday
Protest Underway in WalnutCreek tonight as a small but growing group of protestors turned out at Civic Park to make their feelings known… at least 300 people turned out to take part.