Snippets: Waiting For The New Year
And here we are, poised on the brink of a freshly stamped New Year. Another 365 days to make something happen, to recover, or to forget 2018 and hits taken in previous years. Being optimists at heart despite our many bruises and welts, we’re looking forward to the New Year, not only the cocktails and…
PG&E Scam Making The Rounds – Don’t Bite!
Regular readers will know that we can’t stand scammers trying to separate good people from their money and that we write about their antics until you all say: pleeeeaase, stop! And then, they come up with another one. These grifters, probably working in a foreign land with no existing extradition protocol, are hitting us hard…
San Ramon Transient Finds Accommodation In Attic Of Local Bagel Business
Employees of Sunrise Bagels in San Ramon thought they were hearing things – or perhaps that they were facing a rather large pest control issue – when they began to notice something big stirring in the attic of their business Thursday. Police were summoned after it became apparent something or someone had taken up residence…
Sunday Snippets
Love this time of year. Always have. Crisp mornings, a little fog in the valleys and things moving a little slower – not much – but a little slower. Getting closer to the Ho Ho Ho. Old friends checking in to see if we’re still kicking, ticking us off their list of “Status Unknown” and…
Whaddaya Know, Other Locals Unhappy With Use Of Leaf Blowers… New Anti-Blower Group Organizes In Walnut Creek
Veteran readers may have recognized our past truculence when it comes to the widespread and unceasing use of Satan’s Whistle in the 24/680 – known to the evil scientists who created them as: The Leaf Blower. Past efforts to lessen the impact of the whiny, fume-spewing monsters have been mocked or gone unnoticed by public…
Residents Celebrate Rainfall – Transformers Blow, Intersections Darken, Crashes Reported
With good there must come some bad, right? That’s what they drilled into us at any rate. With the arrival of this blessed rainfall we have been holding out for comes some associated – challenges – as transformers give up, neighborhoods go black and the fire department starts hearing from folks trapped in elevators. Traffic…
Sunday Snippets
Much of this past week was just plain hard to believe. We have tried to open our minds to what so many are calling the “New Normal,” but sometimes the collision of bad behavior, illogical thinking, and the very American habit of ignoring most things and then going absolutely Viking on someone for a seemingly…
The Sunday SitRep
Those of you with time in the military, or who have just watched too many Tom Clancy movies, know that today’s alliterative titling comes from military shorthand for situation report. We use a lot of shorthand here at NEWS24/680, trying to pack a boatload of information into character-limiting lines of text alerts, Tweets and other…
The 24/680’s “Homeless Question” – A Crisis In Search Of A Solution
This site recently requested anecdotal commentary from its Social Media users relative to what we perceive as a mounting problem with homelessness in the 24/680 and, as usual, the readership had plenty to say. Sky-High rents in our urban areas have put more and more people onto the streets, it is generally agreed, as those…
Danville Man Arrested On Suspicion Of Stealing – A Leafblower – At Knifepoint
Ed Note: Longtime readers know how we feel about leafblowers, known to some around these parts as “Satan’s Whistles,” so to head off any accusation of blower bias we’re going to play this one straight from the sarge’s desk. The video is of an unrelated theft, but perhaps illustrates the lengths some people are willing…