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A community’s night out
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upervisor Diane Burgis (back row, third from left) and a group of Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Deputies cruised around Discovery Bay on Aug. 2, to celebrate National Night Out. The group stopped at multiple streets around unincorporated Contra Costa to meet with neighbors. The event is celebrated each year across the country and is meant to bring neighbors and local law enforcement To view a together under positive circumstances. For more photos, see page 5. video and a slideshow of the event, visit www.thepress.net/multimedia
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Police release timeline of Gabe disappearance Staff Writer
OAKLEY Six months after the disappearance of Oakley resident Alexis Gabe, her family has released a timeline of events in the days afterward as they continue the search for her body. The timeline was released by Gabe’s father, Gwyn, on social media as part of a ninepage document sent to him by Antioch Police Detective John Cox. The document covers a range of dates from Gabe’s Jan 26 disappearance through June 2 when a press conference was held in Oakley to announce that
she was believed to have been murdered and that her suspected killer, Marshall Jones, was also dead following a confrontation with Washington state police. Cox said at the end of the document that certain details have intentionally been left out, but does not provide a reason for the omission. “This information was determined based on cellphone records, a forensic download of Alexis’ Infinity that included GPS locations, forensic cellphone extractions, surveillance video, and interviews,” Cox wrote. “This was not an all-insee Gabe page 22
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BRENTWOOD City of Brentwood is asking residents to voluntarily reduce their water consumption by 15% as part of an effort to promote water conservation in response to the statewide drought. The Brentwood City Council voted unanimously during its July 26 meeting to adopt a resolution “requesting that potable (drinkable) water service customers reduce consumption from the amounts
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BRENTWOOD Residents will be voting on a City Councilsponsored measure in the November election that is designed to protect open space and parks from future development. After having been discussed at several previous meetings, the Voter-Protected Open Space Overlay ballot measure was unanimously approved by the City Council at its July 26 meeting. The proposed policy states that lands designated as VoterProtected Open Space may be used only for open space, parks, agricultural, and recreational uses for everyone. The designated land would also include Brentwood Country Club, Shadow Lakes, and Deer Valley Golf Courses. The proposal includes about 175 parcels of land. “I want to highlight that this land-use measure does not change the underlying General Plan or zoning designations,” said Assistant City Manager Darin Gale. “For example, semipublic facilities would remain semi-public facilities. The overlay would place additional restrictions on any semi-public facility parcels subject to the overlay. These restrictions may only be changed or removed by a vote of the people of Brentwood.” The designated area would be applied to lands that have see Ballot page 22
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