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Walnut Creek school crisis counselors, crossing guards appear safe from chopping block
Walnut Creek :: CA :: USA | 13 days ago
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In a scene repeated at least three times in the past four years, parents, school administrators and other residents pleaded with the Walnut Creek City Council Tuesday not to cut funding for crossing guards and school crisis counselors. Community
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Walnut Creek city manager stripped of duties and responsibilities in Lesher Center abuse investigation
Walnut Creek :: CA :: USA | 18 days ago
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City Manager Ken Nordhoff will not decide the fate of four employees on administrative leave as part of an internal child sex abuse/mandated reporting investigation, now that other officials believe he knew about the situation earlier then he
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Walnut Creek libraries face possible money crisis
Alameda :: CA :: USA | 20 days ago
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There is a fiscal cliff ahead for Walnut Creek libraries, according to library advocates...The city's two libraries -- Ygnacio Valley Library and the main Walnut Creek Library -- were the focus of a special Saturday morning City Council meeting. Many
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Walnut Creek to study ways to fill vacant Shadelands spaces
Walnut Creek :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago
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The city will, over the next six months, study ways to reverse the trend of increasing commercial vacancies in the Shadelands Business Park area. Mayor Cindy Silva, who said she worked in the Shadelands Business Park from 1993 to 2001, said change is
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Walnut Creek to draw up prospective second-hand smoke ordinance
Walnut Creek :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago
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The City Council has asked staff to study a prospective ordinance imposing restrictions on smoking downtown and in apartment buildings and other multifamily homes, along with other ways to cut second-hand smoke exposure dramatically. In a recent
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Walnut Creek's enviable 'State'
Walnut Creek :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago
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The state of the city is pretty solid with folks who live here, it appears. "Walnut Creek residents are overwhelmingly satisfied with our quality of life," Mayor Cindy Silva said as part of a lengthy 2013 "State of the City" presentation at the
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Walnut Creek swears in new council members
Walnut Creek :: CA :: USA | 6 months ago
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Newly elected council members Loella Haskew and Justin Wedel were sworn in at the standing room only City Council meeting Tuesday where Councilwoman Cindy Silva was unanimously selected mayor and Councilwoman Kristina Lawson will serve a Mayor Pro
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Walnut Creek joins area renewable-energy cooperative
Walnut Creek :: CA :: USA | 6 months ago
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Local leaders will combine their own wish list for solar panels and other renewable-energy projects on city-owned property with the dreams of other Bay Area agencies, to improve their buying power and better qualify for energy-related grants. The
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Walnut Creek crash victim goes home; police investigation continues
Walnut Creek :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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After multiple surgeries and days of rehabilitation, a 23-year-old woman was released from John Muir Medical Center on Wednesday, more than a month after a pickup truck driver veered onto the sidewalk, striking her and killing her mother-in-law.
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Walnut Creek's Bomb Squad serves entire area
Alameda :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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Dressed in a $20,000 Explosive Ordinance Disposal suit, Jay Hill is a bulky, green, crime-fighting machine...Accompanied by the Walnut Creek Bomb Squad's four-foot-tall, 400-pound Andros F-6A -- a remotely controlled robot whose disrupter platform,
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