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…
Moraga’s Canyon Bridge Re-Opens – One Lane Of It, Anyway – And It’s Getting A Workout
Moragans have been beset by traffic issues in recent months and some were starting to feel a little more cut off from the rest of the world than they would have liked. We won’t mention the Unmentionable Hole as it has been successfully filled in and while engineers and construction people are still working on…
So Long, Chuck – You Were A Great Depression
Old Timers in Moraga may remember life Before Chuck, before the rains came. Traffic moved easily along Rheem Boulevard, neighbors waving jauntily to one another, some of them even venturing into the shopping center to buy something from time to time. And then, whammo. After a biblical eight days of solid precipitation the ground near…
“Touch ‘N Go” Returns To The Wild
Some of you may remember our tale of a young bobcat scooped up from where he’d come to rest after getting hit by a car off Highway 4 back in August. His prognosis was not good, initially, and we defied conventional wisdom in these incidents and went ahead and named him “Touch n’ Go” anyway,…
Big News In Little Moraga – Culverts Arrive For Chuck The Sink Hole
Nothing gets past the 24/680 Posse. Nothing. Especially these massive concrete culverts – trucked into MoTown this morning for eventual installation in our landmark sink hole. Matt Derby spotted the gear as it was inbound this morning and we thank him for the picture! Now, let’s talk Canyon Bridge!
“Mule” The Wanderer Arrested In Castro Valley Wednesday – Booked Into Santa Rita
A man who goes by the name “Munk” or “Mule” – after his beloved pack mules – had his criss-crossing sojourn across the state cut short Wednesday when he was arrested and taken into custody by highway patrol officers in Castro Valley. Mule was booked at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin on charges of trespass…
It Was Touch And Go For This Little Bobcat Today – Two CHP Officers Worked Hard To Save Him
In a continuation of a critter-centric theme on NEWS24/680 lately (mules, a deer on our Facebook page, and now this guy), two California Highway Patrol officers chose to go the extra mile to save the life on an injured Bobcat Tuesday – and gave us the opportunity to give you some good news in the…