Pleasanton News

Pleasanton Mayor Jerry Thorne said this week that he and other Tri-Valley mayors will keep working with a local consulting group to plan lobbying trips to Washington, D.C. despite the decision by Mayor Bill Clarkson and the San Ramon City Council to bow out of the annual planning effort.

I have never considered myself an adventurous person. I favor turn signals, never go anywhere without a map and a cell phone, and I've made it all the way to 23 without taking candy from a stranger.

Fifteen new firefighters for the Livermore-Pleasanton and the Moraga-Orinda fire departments graduated last Friday from the 11-week Recruit Fire Academy.

Employer medical benefits coverage, from a top-talent point of view, is not an issue.

Good feelings filled the Veterans Memorial Building last Thursday as people gathered to support the values promoted by longtime school board member Juanita Haugen, who died in 2007 after a two-year fight against cancer.

A woman who reported she was robbed by two men who then attempted to take her infant son was arrested Tuesday for filing a false police report.

A draft proposal for the social host ordinance that was up for a first reading at Monday night's meeting was apparently not ready to taken up by the council.

What started out as an attempted murder charge wound up as a misdemeanor assault conviction for William Hogarty, the CEO of a now defunct mortgage consulting firm, O.F. Lending.

The Pleasanton Antiques and Collectibles Faire has been called an "antique lover's dream." It is a phrase I can relate to, since I've unearthed my share of treasures at this well-attended extravaganza that takes place twice a year, in May and October.

The Rotary Club of Pleasanton holds it annual golf outing and luncheon today at the Alameda County Fairgrounds golf course and its president, Julie Lewis, also will accept an award for the club at today's Community of Character luncheon, which is being held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Veterans Memorial Building in downtown Pleasanton.

Between the Vines is a biweekly column on wine and winemaking in the Livermore Valley region.

A mother and her infant son are safe after two men robbed her then attempted to kidnap her boy inside an apartment complex Wednesday night, police said.

The Pleasanton school district has hired Jason Krolikowski, an assistant principal from the San Ramon Valley Unified School District, as Foothill High's new principal to replace John Dwyer, who's taking a position as principal of Lynbrook High School in San Jose.

Q I know you've written about the construction that's beginning again on Interstate 580 in Livermore, Dublin, and Pleasanton, but there seems to be much more going on than just the addition of a westbound carpool lane.

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A 15-year-old girl who disappeared more than a week ago and was thought to be with a man twice her age was found Monday night in Pleasanton, police said Tuesday.

A triple drug arrest Wednesday in the Muirwood area began when a patrol officer spotted a 27-year-old Pleasanton man, known to be on searchable probation, reportedly walking down his driveway at 5 p.m. with a syringe in hand.

Community wide yard sale! Birch Creek Townhomes in Pleasanton is having a community wide yard sale in the front of each unit on Saturday May 18th from 8-1 pm.

Former Pleasanton planning commissioner Kathy Narum, who cruised to victory in a special election for a vacant city council seat, will be sworn in at the May 21 council meeting.

The Pleasantonton school board may hire three principals at its meeting tonight, to replace two high school administrators and one at a middle school.