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Last year s Play Day brought big smiles to dozens of Brentwood children. This year s Play-bor Day celebration will be the biggest Play Day yet.<br><i>Press file photo</i> Celebration for a pair of milestones
Since Brentwood has been named a Playful City by KaBOOM! for the third consecutive year, the Brentwood Parks and Recreation Department is pulling out all the stops to show that this East County co...
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Workers installed a new septic system at the East Contra Costa Historical Society in June. Funding for that, and other projects – including the restoration of an 1890s-era schoolhouse – comes mostly from the annual barbecue, which is set for Sept. 12.<br><i>Photo by Richard Wisdom</i> Historical bash right on ’cue
While Labor Day is known as a prime barbecuing holiday, one barbecue in particular – held a weekend later – should be on East County residents’ radar. The East Contra Costa Historical Society’s Co...
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<i>Photo by Rick Lemyre</i> Doubly welcome
Antioch brought home another of its own from Iraq last weekend: Staff Sgt. Nick Sponseller of the Army’s 10th Mountain Division. The Warrior Watch Riders surprised him at Applebee’s and provided ...
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<i>Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Tanner</i> Up, up and away
Aaron Tanner in his Superman T-shirt left UCLA Medical Center last week following a heart and kidney transplant on Aug. 13. The 5-year-old Brentwood boy and his mother Elizabeth will be staying...
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<I>Photo by Deb Spinola</i> Honored at the Fair
Members of Knightsen 4-H celebrated a victory at the California State Fair last month, where the Contra Costa County display received the Silver Award in the Counties Exhibit Competition. Thirty c...
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