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Liberty welcomes back students by Dawnmarie Fehr Correspondent
REGIONAL The Liberty Union High School District (LUHSD) welcomed students on campus last week, just before spring break began. The district has divided its returning students into three groups – groups one and two will alternate days on campus, while group three has elected to remain in distance learning. On Thursday, March 18, and Friday, March 19, group one attended classes on campus. Group two will be on campus for two days once the district returns from break on March 29. The groups will continue to alternate in-person and virtual learning every two days. “Things are going great,” said LUHSD Superintendent Eric Volta. “It’s fantastic to see students on campus, and our teachers are really excited to have them back. The students are a
Elektra Hauck, Annabelle Bruesewitz and Emma Abad return to the Heritage High School campus for the first time in a year in Brentwood,Thursday, March 18. The county’s March 2020 shelter-in-place order resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic transitioned schools to distance learning, a move that is now being reversed due to improving conditions.
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REGIONAL The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) has announced a series of workshops intended to solicit public input on the development of a community benefit program associated with the Delta Conveyance Project (DCP). According to DWR, community benefit programs go beyond traditional concepts of mitigation. They attempt to provide greater flexibility in addressing possible community impacts associated with the major construction projects. “It’s pretty common for
to this meeting and engage in discussion on benefits, we do not expect them to relax their opposition to the project.
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Carrie Buckman Department of Water Resources large infrastructure projects to have a set of commitments that benefit the local communities,” said Carrie Buckman, environmental program manager for the DCP. “If the project is approved, we use the effort to acknowledge that it could have potential effects
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to communities that go beyond the traditional environmental mitigation. We want to try to coordinate with the community on this. Thinking about the kinds of things that might be in a community benefit program, we really need to have that conversation
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with the community.” However, some project opponents view the program as little more than an effort to buy public acceptance of the controversial Delta tunnel project. Discovery Bay-based Save the California Delta Alliance (STCDA) sent an email to its subscribers last week urging readers to boycott the workshops. “I urge you not to register or go to any of these workshops,” read the email signed by Karen Mann and Jan McCleery, current and past STCDA presidents, respectively. “This is simply DWR’s way of duping Delta residents
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MARCH 26, 2021
REGIONAL The Contra Costa Board of Supervisors has cleared the way for an indoor commercial cannabis cultivation business to operate on Sellers Avenue, despite vocal opposition from city officials and residents. The unanimous decision to grant Diablo Valley Farms a land-use permit appears to be the final ruling in a lengthy back and forth between the business owner, the county, Brentwood leaders and residents over whether the proposed business would be too dangerous, smelly and close to Brentwood’s Sunset Park Athletic Complex, 175 feet away. In the end, the facility’s approval was enabled with a couple of amended conditions of approval to address safety concerns, and the supervisors unanimously agreeing that the athletic complex doesn’t fit the county’s definition of a youth center, which would have required a 1,000-foot buffer between the park and the operation. “I want people to know I would never let something come in that I didn’t think was good,” said District 3 Supervisor Diane Burgis. The decision was in stark contrast to the feelings of Brentwood City Councilmembers Susannah Meyer and Karen Rarey — both longtime opponents of the facility — Brentwood Assistant City Manager Terrence Grindall, Police
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