Blowback – Are We Witnessing The End Of Gas-Powered “Gardening” Gear In California?
You may have heard that California is poised to become the first state in the nation to phase out the use of gas-powered lawn equipment, aka blowers, mowers, and trimmers. Depending on your preferences and threshold for pain, you’re either leaping for joy right now or speed dialing your lawyer to file a blocking lawsuit…
Women’s March For Reproductive Rights In Orinda Saturday
The Orinda Women’s March for Reproductive Rights starts at 2 p.m., Saturday (today) at Theatre Square and proceeds to City Hall (on sidewalks, no streets blocked). Today’s gathering is one of the over 650 nationwide marches for reproductive rights taking place today. Amy Worth, current Mayor of Orinda, will speak. The local organizer for the…
… And The Lights Go Out In Moraga Friday… Again.
Unknown if it was another suicidal squirrel or too-tall semi truck but the power is out to a sizable portion of Moraga tonight – and boy, are we hearing about it. Apparently some team named the Giants is playing or something… Unknown cause, as we said, with PG&E guestimating repairs by midnight. We can only…
Another Water Main Failure – This Time In Alamo
The latest in a recent string of infrastructure failures occurred overnight at Danville Boulevard and Hemme in Alamo as water sluiced down neighborhood streets and down into the gutters yet again as residents fretted about potential damage to their homes. Local Joe Foster shot this video as the water rose in the neighborhood Friday. Officials…
The Leaping Ellipsis: Three-Dotting Our Way Through Another Saturday Night
Tip of the Fedora and a picked-up bar tab for our fellow scribbler Herb Caen as we ankled our way from swell joint to swinging nightspot Saturday, dodging the over-served, the occasional stray cougar and revved-up anti-Mandater – taking the air, copious notes, and anything else we could find along our route. Burglars and bartenders…
Sink Hole Surfaces – Or Sub-Surfaces – In Alamo Friday
Neighbors living in the area of Valley Oaks Drive and Stone Valley Road in Alamo have something new to talk about tonight after a failing water main undermined their road and turned the asphalt into an unnavigable undulating slab. The failure was first noticed at 6:38 p.m. with police and town crews quickly putting up…
Anti-Mandate Protestors March In Walnut Creek Friday
People opposed to vaccine mandates took to the streets of Walnut Creek Friday night as other protests are planned to take place across the Bay Area over the weekend. About 100 protestors marched through the city’s downtown, chanting and shouting anti-mandate slogans. People in San Jose were also planning to gather in support of police…
Shaking Off The Beat – And Listening To People We Meet
Back in the bad old days, the boys and girls with ink in their bloodstreams would depart the newsroom for a night walk around town, currying favor with doormen, nightclub owners, cab drivers, cops and semi-respectable ladies of the evening who knew where the “bodies were buried.” Some referred to them as “buzzer nights” –…
Broken Water Main Causes Semi-Sinkhole In Moraga Tuesday
A broken water main burbled to the surface of Constance Place in Moraga Tuesday, sending a steady stream of water into drought-sleepy Moraga Creek and prompting a frantic effort to stanch the flow. Moragans, unwilling to utter the word sinkhole after a previous experience with one that garnered attention when it collapsed to life at…
Suspected DUI Driver Tours The I680 Corridor – Wakes Up A Lot Of Locals In The Process
A circuitous police chase kept several police jurisdictions on the run and the locals awake as a suspected drunk driver fled from a traffic stop north of Benicia, visited Alamo and ended up on bare rims in Pleasant Hill in the wee hours Thursday. Things kicked off around 1 a.m. – as many things have…