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Fellows awards chosen
Celebrating graduation
The Antioch Schools Education Foundation has announced the winners of the Mary Allan Fellows Award. Selecting the fellows was a rigorous and daunting process, and all nominees should consider it a great honor to have been nominated. The ASEF Board was impressed with the high caliber of these teachers who touch the lives of our students in Antioch each day. Congratulations to the following teachers: Fellows: Jose Cumagun and Bruce Ellison, Deer Valley High Marlein Jeans, Sutter Elementary DarVisa Marshall, Antioch Middle, AUSD Teacher of the Year Keil Olff, Deer Valley High
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tudents at Deer Valley High School in Antioch turned their tassels and celebrated their graduation during ceremonies on Friday, June 7. School district officials and visiting dignitaries feted the students of the Class of 2019, and wished them success in their futures. To view more photos of the event, visit www.thepress.net/multimedia/slideshows
Developer gathers signatures, vote on ULL heads to voters Staff Writer
A group of local developers has cleared the first major hurdle in expanding Brentwood’s urban limit line (ULL) to accommodate a large residential development project that includes various other elements. Longtime Brentwood farmer and developer Ron Nunn, a development team member behind the proposed changes, confirmed this week that hired signature-gatherers have collected more than the required 3,500 verified autographs needed for the Brentwood City Council to
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“ The thing people have to understand is the council does not have a choice of not taking it to the voters. Some people are saying ‘don’t let this happen.’ Well, they don’t have a choice. The signatures have been verified, the voters have a right to speak.
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Brentwood City Manager Gus Vina put the question before voters. “We feel good about it,” said Bob Nunn, son of Ron Nunn and a fellow development team member. “We think it’s a good opportunity for the city.”
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Qualifying the ballot measure aimed at moving Brentwood’s ULL — the mark at which urban development must stop — is a first step in a proposed 815-acre, 2,400 residential-unit project situated north
of Balfour Road, east of Deer Valley Road, and west of the Shadow Lakes and Brentwood Hills neighborhoods. The area in question is currently Ginochio family land used for cattle grazing and dryland farming for the last 150 years. Ron Nunn has a contract with the Ginochio family to develop the property. The Brentwood City Council will convene on June 25 to decide whether to put the ULL expansion question before voters this November, or in November 2020, or to slightly delay the decision by requesting a special report be compiled to further explore the propossee ULL page 26A
Heading To The Big Show
Three East County baseball players drafted by Major League teams. Page 17A Calendar.............................27A Classifieds..........................21A Cop Logs.............................25A Entertainment.................... 9A Food....................................... 8A Milestones.........................15A Opinion...............................13A Pets......................................10A Sports..................................17A
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