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24/680 Movie Trivia Answer: “Swim Team!”

And we have a winner… sort of! “St. Elsewhere Fan,” (why you folks don’t use your actual names baffles us but what the hey…) swims up to the answer of our local movie trivia question and backs into it. It is, of course, the universally acclaimed 1979 film epic “Swim Team,” a chip off the…

Jury Reaches Verdict Against North Richmond Gang Members

From the Office of the District Attorney: Martinez, Calif. – On Wednesday, March 30, 2022, a Contra Costa County jury found Defendants 24-year-old Marrico Williams and 23-year-old Torion Young, guilty of multiple charges for their roles in a prolific crime spree committed by members of the North Richmond criminal street gang known as the “Swerve…

Dublin, Alameda County Sheriff’s Deputies Mourn Loss Of One Of Their Own

Alameda County Sheriff’s deputies are mourning the loss of Deputy Sheriff Aubrey Phillips, who collapsed from onset of a sudden and acute medical event shortly after making an arrest early Saturday morning, Febr. 12. Worried colleagues who reached out to this site over the weekend had suspected an event triggered by a possible fentanyl contact,…

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…

Anti-Mandate Protestors Gather Outside County Health Offices In Martinez Thursday

Video: Ann McMullen Michael

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…

Walnut Creek PD Adding Downtown Foot Patrols On Fridays, Saturdays After Weekend Incidents

Recent incidents at two downtown Walnut Creek bar/restaurants have spurred Walnut Creek police to increase their presence downtown on Friday and Saturday nights. According to a news release posted to the department’s Facebook page, uniformed officers will patrol the downtown district on foot on those traditionally busy nights. The release cited two recent incidents, one…

FBI Agent Latest Victim Of Lafayette Car Burglars

It’s no secret that Lafayette – like most other Bay Area cities these days – has been particularly hard hit by car burglars prowling area parking lots looking for loot while car owners dine. An unidentified Federal Bureau of Investigation agent learned this the hard way Saturday while parked outside the American Kitchen restaurant on…

Making It Through A Different Kind Of Thanksgiving

This holiday was an unusual one on a lot of fronts for us. We were missing some key people whose absence was acutely felt; the now-expected COVID restrictions were in place; what dinner table conversation there was steered clear of politics – televised sporting events flickered in the background with strange, cardboard cutouts of quarantined…