Behr Paint Company recently unveiled its new color of the year for 2020: a soft moss green called Back to Nature that is likely to show up on showroom kitchen cabinetry.
Rebuttal arguments have been filed with the city clerk’s office by the City Council and a citizens’ group on a referendum of the Development Agreement between the City of Livermore and a hotel developer to build in the city’s downtown core.
The City of Dublin has received a prestigious 2019 Helen Putnam Award from the League of California Cities for Excellence in City-Business Relations for its Valor Crossing housing development. The award was presented to the City of Dublin at the regularly scheduled Nov. 5 City Council meeting.
The Dublin Unified School District (DUSD) board of trustees will be back up to its full complement of five members, now that voters have chosen Catherine Kuo in Trustee Area 3.
The Chair of the Alameda County Transportation Commission (Alameda CTC), Richard Valle, who also serves on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, announced that Tess Lengyel will be the new Executive Director for Alameda CTC. The announcement comes following a national search to fill the p…
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The Dublin City Council unanimously committed the city to the creation of a pedestrian friendly, new-look downtown, for which the public has shown high approval ratings in workshops and surveys.
For supporters of the Tri-Valley Conservancy, last week’s “Jeans and Jewels” dinner was an opportunity to reflect on the group’s 25 years of success — and a promise to keep pushing to preserve open space and agricultural land.
A proposed inn to serve visitors to Livermore’s wine country cleared a significant hurdle.
Pleasanton's water utility shut down a drinking water well earlier this year after detecting unsafe levels of toxic chemicals linked to adverse health effects, including cancer and birth defects.
The Chair of the Alameda County Transportation Commission (Alameda CTC), Richard Valle, who also serves on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, announced that Tess Lengyel will be the new Executive Director for Alameda CTC. The announcement comes following a national search to fill the p…
Linda Smith, who will assume the role of Dublin City Manager upon Chris Foss’ retirement at the end of 2019, has announced the appointment of Colleen Tribby, current City of Dublin Administrative Services Director, to be the next Assistant City Manager, effective December 31, 2019.
Voters will fill four Zone 7 Water Agency board seats in the March 3 ballot. Zone 7 elections occur in even-numbered years, at the state’s primary election time. In the past, those elections have occurred in June. But in 2020, the state’s presidential primary will be held March 3.
A planned one-day hunger strike and work stoppage by inmates at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin stretched for an additional five days before coming to an end Tuesday afternoon.
Livermore will soon get two additional baseball fields at Robert Livermore Park. The unanimous vote by the LARPD Board of Directors on Oct. 30 will bring the park’s number of Little League fields to four.
An acclaimed author next week will offer insights into the hope-filled, but sometimes agonizing, personal experiences of those caught up in the U.S. immigration system.
After nearly seven years at the helm of Visit Tri-Valley, President and CEO Barbara Steinfeld has announced her retirement as of January 2020.
The City of Pleasanton announces the appointment of Captain Craig Eicher as interim police chief effective Nov. 15, 2019, following the retirement of longstanding Police Chief Dave Spiller.
Arguments for and against a referendum of the Development Agreement between the City of Livermore and a hotel developer to build in the city’s downtown core have been filed with the city clerk’s office.
The Dublin Unified School District (DUSD) board of trustees will be back up to its full complement of five members, now that voters have chosen Catherine Kuo in Trustee Area 3.
With 1st District Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty announcing his retirement in 2020 after 24 years’ service, four hopefuls have announced they intend to run for the seat in the March 3, 2020 primary election.
Livermore is exploring whether to regulate short term housing rentals offered up on sites like HomeAway, VRBO and Airbnb.
After providing expert guidance and personalized travel service to the Livermore community for 40 years, Travel Bug Owner Debbie Peck has decided to retire.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) headlined a fundraising reception on Sunday night for Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin) at the Pleasanton home of businessman Joe Johal. More than 250 people attended the event.
A team of 8th graders hailing from three different Livermore schools are preparing for the First Lego Robotics competition being held at Quarry Lane School in Dublin this weekend.
The Livermore Police Department received a $60,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) for a one-year enforcement and education program. The money will fund various activities intended to reduce deaths and injuries on California roads.
On Oct. 29, the Pleasanton Downtown Association (PDA) announced it has joined the Small Business Saturday Coalition and that it will, together with American Express, support this year’s Small Business Saturday celebration, which takes place on Nov. 30. Small Business Saturday is a day dedica…
In the summer of 2012, Lizzy McNaney had just graduated from Granada High School and was navigating the timeless experiences most teens face when leaving the nest.
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday put into motion a proposal that could place amendments to Proposition D before voters as soon as November 2020.
Young Republican voters are as concerned about climate change as their Democratic counterparts. That was the message given by Alexander Posner, founder and president of Students for Carbon Dividends, on the Tri-Valley Citizens Climate Lobby’s October video.
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan could not believe the huge number of bills she would be reviewing in the State Assembly after being elected to represent the 16th district, encompassing the Tri-Valley and LaMorinda. At a Community Town Hall meeting Oct. 23 in Pleasanton, she noted that most of her bills …
The Livermore City Council on Monday directed a $4.7 million infusion of low income housing funds to help support the development of a large housing community for adults with special needs.
An environmental group, highly critical of a federal agency’s newly proposed recommendations to protect endangered species in the Delta, states that they would seriously harm those species and their habitat.
The planned power outages by PG&E shut down three schools in Pleasanton and one in Dublin, but Livermore schools escaped without any problems over the weekend.
Firefighters worked through the weekend to keep a vegetation fire on Mines Road southeast of Livermore from spreading to nearby homes and woodlands.
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Pleasanton police and residents said goodbye to one of their own Friday, as they laid to rest Officer Kyle Henricksen of the Pleasanton Police Department.
Cutbacks in state transportation funding have led to pushing back the projected opening date for Valley Link to 2027, instead of 2024.
Altamont Creek Elementary School Science Specialist Fenna Gatty donned her white lab coat and opened her classroom door for her third grade budding scientists and engineers. They filed into the room and sat on the carpet in “presentation mode” with their legs crossed and hands in laps. As th…
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Juul Labs Inc. dropped its support for a referendum aimed at overturning Livermore’s ban on the sale of vaping products.
On Oct. 29, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted 3 to 2 to add "mutton busting" to the list of prohibited events in the county rodeo ordinance. Mutton busting is a rodeo event where young children ride on the backs of sheep – a ride that may last only seconds as the sheep try to tos…
The Pleasanton school board reviewed updated projections of costs and revenue for a proposed bond measure to go on the March 2020 ballot, but will wait until its next meeting to determine how big the total bond amount will be sized.
Getting the news that you have breast cancer can be devastating, particularly if you are underinsured or have high medical deductibles and co-pays. ValleyCare Charitable Foundation’s Women in Need fund continues to bridge financial gaps for local patients coping with breast cancer. This mont…
The number of non-traditional students continues to increase as working adults look to gain valuable educational experience and those who skipped college after high school seek to increase their ability to earn. Recent high school graduates also often need to put their education on the backb…
An election in the Dublin Unified School District will be held Nov. 5 for the seat representing Trustee Area 3.
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Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center (LVPAC) has announced that Executive Director Scott Kenison will be leaving the organization in March 2020, according to a press release.
Animoto, symbaloo, scratch, spark and dash are terms that may not sound familiar to the average adult, but to elementary students in the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District (LVJUSD), these are common tools used in their classrooms whenever they are learning with technology.
Zone 7 Water Agency directors have voted 5-2 to raise the price of agricultural water by 3%, a relatively minor hike that one vineyard owner said is affordable.
Two decades ago, China was a Third World country with a huge population and a large army, but little ability to project military power beyond its borders.
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Livermore’s first Pride event brought almost 1,000 people of all ages to the four- hour celebration at the Shea Plaza in front of the Bankhead Theater.
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Livermore police on Tuesday responded to a report of threatening graffiti painted on a wall at Mendenhall Middle School.
Both Dublin and Livermore will be participating in National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, Oct. 26.
The Dublin City Council has approved what city officials say is the Tri-Valley’s first five-star hotel, to be built to a height of five stories by Westin.
In memory of the 30th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, the American Red Cross Northern California Coastal Region urges residents of Northern California to take the necessary steps to prepare their households for an emergency.
Four years ago, a nonprofit group joined forces with an affordable housing developer to build a community in Livermore for low-income adults with special needs.
The Livermore City Council is set to vote next week on whether to buy the last remaining patches of downtown real estate needed to build a new public parking garage proposed for South L Street.
Blue Oaks Church, host of Night to Shine Tri-Valley (NTS), the local provider of a prom for individuals with special needs, is calling on local businesses, organizations and residents to help raise funds by supporting their gala on Friday, Nov. 8, at 6 p.m., at the Shannon Community Center, …
Pleasanton Unified School District (PUSD) edged out Dublin in the annual CAASPP test results, which were announced Oct. 9.
Voters will decide early next year whether to approve or reject an agreement between the city and a private developer to build a hotel next to the Bankhead Theater on the east side of Livermore Avenue.
Neither Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory nor the Livermore campus of Sandia National Laboratories suffered power outages last week, the two labs reported.
A pair of back-to-back earthquakes rocked Northern California on Monday night and Tuesday afternoon.
On July 22, the Livermore K9 Foundation donated to the Livermore Police Department a check for $10,248 for the purchase of their newest K9: Drax, a 1-year-old Belgian Malinois who is partnered with Officer Rob Leiva. Drax and Officer Leiva recently completed K9 training and are now working o…
The Livermore High School Premier Quartet greeted guests with classical music as they entered the gymnasium at Granada High School for the annual Reclassification Ceremony held on October 8.
For several years the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Livermore facility of Sandia National Laboratories have been sharing the costs of providing shuttle services for its employees.
Gov. Gavin Newsom last week vetoed a bill intended to create a path for protecting the 3,100-acre Tesla site, some 15 miles east of Livermore, by allowing it to be sold for conservation purposes instead of being turned into an off-road vehicle park.
On Oct. 12, Attorney Tony Bothwell told the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that "the government must be required to protect whistleblowers [who] have the courage to disclose practices that harm workers, the public, and the nation." Defending a nuclear weapons lab…
We are moving toward a computer-augmented world with clean energy from the sun, self-driving cars, major breakthroughs in medicine and few, if any, famines. That’s the view of Robert Reichenthal, an optimistic futurist who spoke to a Livermore audience last week.
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The kind of friendship that only dogs can bring to people has helped Pleasanton Unified School District students find it easier to learn their lessons.
The University of California is making plans to renovate the Hertz Hall complex on the east side of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for future campus-Laboratory collaborations.
Livermore joins the increasing number of cities around the world with its own Pride event this weekend.
At their Oct. 9 meeting, the Tri-Valley – San Joaquin Valley Regional Rail Authority Board approved the Project Feasibility Report for Valley Link, a rail service envisioned to conveniently connect San Joaquin Valley communities and Livermore with the Dublin/Pleasanton BART Station, includin…
Since its inception in 2017, the Go Green Initiative’s Summer Internship program continues to train high school and college level students in marketable career skills while learning the importance of sustainability.
The City of Livermore is still tallying the cost of rebuilding its communications infrastructure following a disruptive ransomware attack that shut down phones, email and computers at city hall last month.
The former Denny’s on Owens Drive has sat vacant for four years, but the owner of the property wants to change that.
Dublin has cancelled phases 2, 3, and 4 of the city’s Historic Park master plan, saving $15.4 million in financing that staff reported would be a losing proposition.
While 3D printing at the nanoscale — producing intricate features orders of magnitude smaller than the width of a human hair — has significant potential in industry and commercial applications, wide adoption has been impractical because of the slow speed and low throughput of the most widely…
The upcoming retirement of Pleasanton Police Chief Dave Spiller means the city is tasked with finding a new chief to lead the department and maintain the low crime rate. City Manager Nelson Fialho will announce an interim chief in the next few weeks.
The Bengston Aquatic Center and the Pleasanton Golf Center might have some tightening up to do when it comes to electricity use.
Andrew McIlroy, the new leader of the Livermore campus of Sandia National Laboratories, is taking on his management role at a time of considerable challenge.
On Oct. 4, Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan’s (D-Orinda) bill AB 1344 was signed into law – one of two bills by Bauer-Kahan that was signed by the Governor this week.
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The Pleasanton/Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Joint Police Services Center (JPSC) officially opened for service on September 30.
When physicists talk about their research, members of the public may wince at the prospect of being deluged with complex technical information.
As the days shorten and the weather cools, the flu season approaches. Medical experts, locally and nationally, strongly advise people to get their flu shots.
Former White House counsel John Dean didn’t mince words when comparing his former boss, Richard Nixon, with Donald Trump. “I think that this president is going to make Richard Nixon look like a choir boy” said Dean, a key figure in the Watergate coverup that brought down Nixon’s presidency in 1974.
It’s hard to imagine the Bay Area, home to numerous tech giants, out of electricity.
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At 9:45 a.m. on Oct. 2, the aircraft lifted off the runway at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut.
A potential rise in the price of untreated water for agriculture next year could hurt small vineyards in the South Livermore Valley Specific Plan, and in turn affect the area’s wine tourism, said Sandy Figuers, Zone 7 Water Agency’s board president.
The Tri-Valley Anti-Poverty Collaborative (TVAPC) announced a breakfast meeting to discuss affordable housing in the Tri-Valley on Thursday, Oct. 24. The meeting will be held at Hub 925 at 5341 Owens Court in Pleasanton from 7:30 to 10 a.m.
Las Positas College’s Online Newspaper Is a Finalist as One of the Best in International Competition
Las Positas College's online version of the award-winning student newspaper, The Express - LPCExpressNews.com, is a finalist in a competition recognizing the best college journalism in the United States and Canada.
Stanford Health Care – ValleyCare is pleased to announce two appointments to its Board of Directors: John Sensiba has been appointed as Board Chair, while Aaron Salyapongse, MD, joins the board for his first term.
All former Department of Energy and atomic workers are invited to attend the National Day of Remembrance Celebration hosted by Nuclear Care Partners. This celebration serves to honor the memory, legacy, and contribution of all nuclear weapons workers.
We are on the brink of a fourth industrial revolution that will produce rapid and momentous changes to our society and economy, according to a technology leader who will speak next Thursday at Livermore’s Bankhead Theater.
Stanford Health Care-ValleyCare Hospital in Pleasanton has been certified as a primary stroke treatment center.
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After 17 years of service to the City of Pleasanton, Police Chief Dave Spiller has announced his retirement, effective November 14. Chief Spiller began his career with the Pleasanton Police Department in 2002 as a lieutenant and was appointed captain in 2003. In 2011 Spiller was selected to …
A referendum effort from a citizens’ group seeking to overturn a Livermore City Council agreement with a hotel developer gathered well over the number of signatures required to put the question before voters on a future ballot.
Climate change discussions can be approached with more civility if the parties understand the moral reasons for being concerned.
Will Juul Labs Inc., the giant San Francisco e-cigarette company, drop its support for a referendum aimed at overturning Livermore’s ban on the sale of vaping products?
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Not many restaurants stick around to celebrate their first anniversary, let alone their 30th.
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Dublin broke ground Tuesday for the city’s first all-abilities playground at Dublin Sports Grounds, 6700 Dublin Blvd.
A brush fire reported around 1:35 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 1, burned 14 acres near the N. Livermore Avenue exit on the north side of Interstate 580. Crews responding included the Alameda County Fire Department, Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department, Cal Fire and Camp Parks Fire.
Kaiser Permanente management and a coalition of three health care worker unions reached tentative contract agreement before a seven-day strike planned for Oct. 14.
Pleasanton Unified School District (PUSD) sold the second issuance of Measure I-1 bonds at 2.64% on Aug. 20, which will save taxpayers money.
Tourists to the Tri-Valley spent more in 2018 than they did the previous year; 51 tour operators in China selling the Tri-Valley produced just under 7,300 room nights and generated about $2.38 million in media coverage.
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The road to Livermore has been long but rewarding for Irina Tezaur. Today she is an award-winning computer scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, but in 1992, when her parents emigrated from Russia, she was 8 and spoke no English.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-15) recently introduced the Securing Energy Critical Elements and American Jobs Act to help the United States develop the technical expertise and production capabilities to assure a long-term, secure and sustainable supply of energy critical elements (ECEs).
As the Tri-Valley continues its ascendancy as a technology and innovation powerhouse, Lenny Mendonca, the Governor’s Chief Economic and Business Advisor, served as the keynote speaker at the Innovation Tri-Valley Leadership Group luncheon on Sept. 23, inspiring new ideas about housing, inclu…
The Tri-Valley Nonprofit Alliance (TVNPA) celebrated its 5th anniversary by hosting a dinner at the Blue Agave Club in Pleasanton on Sept. 12. Billed as the “Power of Mission” dinner, the event honored TVNPA for its role in bringing Bay Area nonprofits together to collaborate, share resource…
