Martinez News

Celebrity Cuisine: The Eye was enjoying a couple of post-work beers at Artie's Countrywood Lounge recently when the host and crew from Food Network's "Restaurant: Impossible" strolled into the Walnut Creek watering hole.

Have you thought about what you would do in a major disaster? Do you have the training, knowledge, or skills to help your family, friends or neighbors? In reality it is not if but when will a disaster will strike our community.

Exhibition to feature the life and times of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist on view in the Huntington Library West Hall.

Creeksider Quartet : Larry Phair, Pleasant Hill, Ron Leiker, Orinda, Jim Diggins, Danville, and Al Eames, Moraga.

ROTI 8, 3483 Blackhawk Plaza Circle, Danville. 925-263-2750, http://roti8.com . This Nouveau American rotisserie is beautifully designed with bold red accents, romantic ceiling murals and French Provencal-inspired fare that includes a nightly rotisserie menu.

SHORTLY after midnight on Aug. 1 Desiree Grajeda, Miguel Herrera, and their unborn child were killed in a gruesome crash after being broadsided by a stolen Infiniti that slammed into Desiree's vehicle at 60 mph.

Taking time out during the holidays to honor the service of our nation's veterans, Santa Claus headed to the Veterans Affairs clinic in Martinez to visit with the people who have served our country.

Martinez actor Deborah Del Mastro is appearing in the Willows Theatre Company's latest musical presentation, T he Light in the Piazza, that focuses on two young lovers whose future together is deemed by everyone to be impossible.A Based on the novella byA Elizabeth Spencer , it is set inA Florence A andA Rome A in the summer of 1953.

During nine weeks of training, Garvin studied the Army mission, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, and field training exercises.

This is normally the season when California newts, a variety of salamander, migrate from the woods and fields where they lie dormant during the dry months to the ponds and streams where they congregate to mate and produce a newt generation.

On a morning when it was 124 degrees, Lori Hider of Martinez, and her daughters, Michelle Hider of Martinez and Gina Davidson of Pennsylvania, might have also used the Pleasant Hill/Martinez Record as a fan when they took a moment to catch up on the community news in the Pleasant Hill/Martinez Record at Abu Simbel in Nubia, Egypt.

A new $12 to $22 annual parcel fee to clean trash out of storm drains and keep pollutants out of Bay Area lakes and rivers will go before Contra Costa County landowners later this month.

The past few years have been a tough slog for Martinez, but Mayor Rob Schroder believes the city may soon turn the corner as the national economy shows signs of improvement.

It was reported at 1:28 p.m. that a toolbox and other items were stolen from a vehicle on Ferry Street.

We've already established that we're crazy for opening a bricks and mortar retail store just when everything is shifting to online en masse.

This project temporarily shuts down the canal loop, draining it of water. Some adjacent trail sections, through Clyde, Concord, Walnut Creek, and Pleasant Hill to Martinez will be closed while crews clean and perform repairs to the canal.

A Apparently some people who use the fishing pier and other areas of the Martinez waterfront prefer to do so in darkness.

The driver was identified as Gerald Brown, 20, and was arrested and booked into Solano County jail after he crashed into the gate of Tesoro Corp.

Sure, it's about the commericals , and perhaps for some, even Madonna at half time .

News coverage of actress Demi Moore 's recent medical emergency has led one California lawmaker to push for new restrictions on the release of taped recordings of 911 calls.