Crockett News

Harold Burnett, right, greets other firefighters as they enter his retirement party at Station 27 in Vallejo on Monday.

Dave Kloski will catch his patrons, at the least the ones who came to 33 Revolutions in El Cerrito for the vintage vinyl records, on the flip side.

Bean, a resident of Martinez, was the victim of a homicide, said Jimmy Lee, a spokesman for the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office.

This has been a proud year for Boy Scout Troop 14 in Albany, which saw five of its members officially receive the coveted Eagle Scout rank Sunday at a five-way Court of Honor at Camp Herms in El Cerrito.

Authorities are treating the discovery of a man's body west of Martinez as a homicide, the sheriff's office said this afternoon.

As the deadlines loom for state-mandated upgrades to the joint Pinole/Hercules sewage treatment plant, Hercules has yet to decide whether to stick with Pinole or bolt to the West County Wastewater District, a costlier alternative that would require building a collection network to transfer the sewage to North Richmond.

Joe Taylor and Forrest Davis carried the Lower Lake High varsity boys' basketball team to a 72-58 win over John Swett of Crockett on Friday in the first-round of the round-robin Berean Christian Touranment at Walnut Creek.

A "Good Neighbor" agreement between a Rodeo petroleum refinery and the surrounding towns of Rodeo and Crockett is coming to the end of its 15-year term, casting $300,000 a year worth of community projects into limbo.

A nationally known researcher and educator has been appointed to the Contra Costa County Board of Education, where she plans to contribute her knowledge to local schools.

The section that was repaired with an eyebar during Labor Day weekend, came loose and fell onto the ground on westbound of the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, Calif., Tuesday, Oct.

The trek winds into December and beyond, with the group already lining up dates into next March.

The Bay Bridge isn't the first local aging span to have problems with torn and failing eyebars .

The Crockett and Rodeo Chambers of Commerce are presenting the Zombie Hotel Haunted House from 6 to 11 p.m. today, Friday and Saturday upstairs at Toot's Tavern 625 Second Ave.

The Contra Costa County Board of Education is accepting applications through Nov.

In the race for City Council, incumbents combined have collected $16,000 more in gifts than their challengers, according to the latest financial disclosure reports.

Heads swiveled about in anticipation today as the Arts and Business Council announced it was giving its first Lifetime Achievement award to Wayne Thiebaud at the Prelude to the Season Annual Awards Luncheon in the Doubletree Sacramento Hotel.

An air blast at Vallejo's Syar Industries on Tuesday caused a loud explosion heard and felt by residents throughout Vallejo, and even in Benicia and Crockett.

Eyes gleaming, Phil Joy's voice fills with excitement when he talks about the decaying steam crane next to his boat yard, which some locals say helped build the Panama Canal.

Some local residents have criticized the Berrellessa Palms development proposal left and right, but many ignore the bigger picture.

After returning from the Vietnam War, Steve Wynn descended into addiction. "I tried every drug ... to fix that pain and suffering, but I couldn't do it.