When It Rains, It Pours…

When It Rains, It Pours…

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Jan 2, 2024

The old idiom played out in spades Tuesday as the Heavens opened and rain poured down on us… followed quickly by two incidents involving sheared hydrants in Lafayette and Moraga. So, those old sayings prove true yet again…

Photos: “Pre-Christmas LZ”

Photos: “Pre-Christmas LZ”

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Dec 23, 2023 5

Red and green aviation lights caught the eye of photographer Sean McDonough Friday as a REACH air ambulance arrived at John Muir Hospital with a crash victim aboard, the passenger severely injured in a head-on crash on Byron Highway.

“Good morning, Thursday…”

“Good morning, Thursday…”

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Dec 21, 2023 3

On a cool morning, in the hamlets and villages erected in the shadow of the fabled mountain, the villagers stirred, brewed their lattes and started preparations for their annual feast… the smoke from their cooking pots rising into the still air…

A Heavenly Rorschach – What Do YOU See?

A Heavenly Rorschach – What Do YOU See?

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Dec 20, 2023 17

Help us out here, we may be seeing things. This photo was made a couple of days before the sky went gray and we liked it. We also found that the longer we looked at it, the more we saw in it. Now, this could merely be evidence of an over-active imagination or an impending…

“Goodnight Moon…”

“Goodnight Moon…”

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Dec 16, 2023 1

Looking skyward as the Heavens begin to shift and we test the wind for scent of predicted coming rain. Lensman Sean McDonough took time from photographing earthbound scenes to turn his cameras skyward and produced this image, more haunting when you remember that we were able to send a dozen men there and bring them…

Arrests At Walnut Creek BART Sunday

Arrests At Walnut Creek BART Sunday

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Nov 19, 2023 10

BART police stopped two men at gunpoint at the Walnut Creek BART station following a theft from the nearby Target store Sunday. Officers alerted to a shoplifting incident in which a Taser was allegedly used or brandished at the store found the men believed responsible and took them into custody at gunpoint.