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Published 08/21/2008 - 1:34 p.m. PDT

Speed bumps like those on Walnut Meadows Drive might

Sick of too much traffic using your street as a shortcut that it was never designed for? Who you gonna call? Speed busters – also known as the folks at Oakley City Hall in charge of the new Neighborhood Traffic Management Program.

Published 08/21/2008 - 1:09 p.m. PDT

Terry Karp, on the right, and his mother Mary are planning to open Bases Loaded Restaurant and Bar at Fourth and G streets in downtown Antioch later this year. With them are the construction managers Robert Zamora, on the left, and Dan Zamora.

For more than a decade, city officials have been hoping and waiting for a destination-type restaurant to open in the historic Rivertown area.

 
Published 08/21/2008 - 12:54 p.m. PDT

A conservation plan is being launched that’s designed to keep the Delta ecosystem healthy for fish and recreation while also providing water for people and farms.

A study to save the Delta’s ecosystem while still providing water to 25 million Californians and 3 million acres of farmland is about to kick into high gear, a process that could eventually lead to construction of a peripheral canal.

Published 08/21/2008 - 1:25 p.m. PDT

Discovery Bay resident Randy Agno is the author of “God’s Hand,” an autobiographical story of how he changed the abusive direction of his life through faith and spirituality.

Randy Agno’s story is the stuff of which TV movies are made.

 
Published 08/21/2008 - 12:47 p.m. PDT

Cameron Enriquez, left, and Jeff Altman survey the vandalized Vasco Road memorial to their mother and wife, Patricia Altman, whose 2003 death helped prompt numerous safety improvements on the dangerous commute corridor. The memorial was wrecked just days after it was refurbished in observance of the fifth anniversary of her accident.

Cameron Enriquez says that whoever desecrated the newly painted cross and freshly planted flowers along the side of Vasco Road last week might have removed the tangible evidence of his mother’s shrine, but they’ve done nothing to supplant her memory.

 
 
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