Merced County Coroner Identifies Walnut Creek Woman Found In California Aqueduct
Merced County Sheriff Coroner’s officials Thursday identified a woman found dead in a car submerged in the California Aqueduct Saturday as Susan Arlynn Waskow, 77, of Walnut Creek. California Highway Patrol officers responded to a section of the aqueduct at about 7:45 p.m. Saturday after receiving reports that a car had gone into the water…
CHP Investigates Reported Freeway Shooting In Orinda Monday
California Highway Patrol officers investigated a reported freeway shooting on eastbound Highway 24 in Orinda Monday night after a driver reported having her driver’s side window shot out by another motorist. The incident was reported at approximately 9:35 p.m. with the driver steering to a location in Lafayette to meet with officers. She was treated…
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…
“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.