Ashley Dias Plaque Dedication Set For Sept. 2
From the City of Lafayette: A memorial plaque honoring the late Ashley Dias will be dedicated on Friday, September 2 at 7:00 p.m. at Lafayette Plaza (corner of Plaza Way and Golden Gate Way in downtown Lafayette). The cast brass plaque honors Ashley Dias who died after being struck by a vehicle while performing his…
Toppled Oak Isolates Rancho Road Neighborhood Sunday
More than 40 homes and their residents remain cut off and almost totally isolated after a substantial Oak tree came down Sunday, bringing a tangle of wires down with it. Rancho Road in El Sobrante remains closed off at this hour (6:15p.m.) – hours after it fell with a crack at 2:28 p.m. Normally, a…
Who’s For A Song This Morning?
Rough night and early morning in the 24/680 and more info is streaming in but, first, we needed to get the blood pumping. Every town should have a song with its name in the title so everyone can get together and sing it from time to time…
Up With The Coyotes – And Keeping The Barman Happy
Out dodging the coyotes who were in full voice last night, nudging things that may have stories buried under them and applying small doses of single malt to help get through the evening. Night Time Is The Right Time for Mister Charles and ordinarily we’d agree, comfortable as we are in dark places where all…
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…
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.