Photos: Snow Falls On Our Landmark Mountain Overnight
A light dusting of snow powdered the flanks of our landmark mountain overnight – sending locals running for their cameras and some for their skis!
County Coroner: Moraga’s Armstrong Brothers Died Of Influenza
Brothers Gary and Richard Armstrong, found deceased inside a trailer on a secluded property not far from Moraga’s bustling shopping center January 15, died of influenza, deputies with the Coroner’s Division of the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. The two men were discovered together in a camper on the Moraga Ranch property behind School…
Quake Flurry Continues To Rock And Roll In Alamo-Danville, Diablo
We have joked with friends who live there that it may be time to turn down their stereo systems after the earth continues to shake in the latest of a recent flurry of smallish temblors to rumble through the San Ramon Valley. A cluster of four minor shakers were recorded in the wee hours this…
Sporty Burglars Raid Deerpark Drive Garage In Walnut Creek Thursday
Burglars entered the garage of a Deerpark Drive home sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, according to residents in the neighborhood, entering through an unlocked side door and making off with bicycles and other sporting equipment. The theft is among a large number of other petty (but not so petty if you’re a victim)…
Thunder Runs, Bad Boys And Blackouts – It’s Thursday In The 24/680!
If that “No Rest for the Wicked” adage holds true we must be really, really bad because our candlestick phones are jangling and that newfangled email system we have from the InterWeb has been burning red hot! No sleep for us here in the news bunker. Experience has shown us that news comes in bursts…
Angst Behind The Wheel: Head Banging And Road Raging In Sloburbia
It’s safe to say that all those old ads showing smiling, chisel-jawed drivers motoring down spotless, remarkably uncongested freeways in the far off 50’s lived only in an Ad Man’s imagination, with real-world conditions on local roads proving to be far, far different. This site received word from reader/commuters of a “nasty accident” on Southbound…
Car Burglaries Continue To Plague 24/680 Residents – And They’re Not Happy
Nothing turns people off like redundancy of information and we’ve been writing about this issue for a long, long time but the tide does not seem to be turning in favor of the law abiding. So we post this cautionary message. Timothy sent in the attached picture of a friend’s Prius, breached and rummaged through…
2018 Underway In The 24/680 – With Some Surprises
This New Year is upon us here at the Crossroads of Civilization in Contra Costa, and so far 2018 has been great for some but packed with surprises for others. We’ve gotten several inquiries from readers interested in changes to the state’s laws regarding marijuana sale and use, as well as changes in regulations regarding…
Weary Of Your Neighbor’s Talking Rudolph? Hold Your Blaster Fire, Luke – The Powells Are At It Again!
As Holiday fixtures go you have your Bobbing Head Rudolph, the Waving Santa you bought for $59.99 down at OSH and plugged in yourself. Then you have the 700-pound scale replica of the Millenium Falcon Lafayette Space Cadet Colby Powell built for his family and hoisted atop his roof with help of a crane. So…
Elves Tiptoeing Around The 24/680 – Not All Of Them BRINGING Gifts
Don’t want to dampen the prevailing good cheer around town these days but we’re getting tons of calls about suspicious cars and people and suspicious cars with people and people apparently bent on taking what’s out on our porches this Holiday Season. Martinez police, tipped by an alert neighbor in their city yesterday, located a…