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Vol. 18, No. 7
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FEBRUARY 19, 2018
February 16, 2018
A Pickleball Success
Controversy Asleep for the winter surrounds KLSN radio
station
by Ruth Roberts
Brentwood pickleballers celebrate installment of official city courts. Page 10
Staff Writer
A blown transmitter has plunged KLSN community radio into darkness, but the discovery that the Oakley-based nonprofit was operating from a tower in Antioch without legal permission may leave the 100-watt station permanently in the dark. In late January, the transmitter at the station malfunctioned and KLSN chief engineer Jeff Brown said he went to the radio tower located on Vista Grande Drive in Antioch to evaluate the damage. Brown said when he got into the tower, he found a note in a plastic envelope attached
Building A Village Photo by Tony Kukulich
P
ress photographer Tony Kukulich captured a bucolic shot of a local vineyard off Brownstone Avenue in Oakley. Winter rains have turned the weeds and grass between the vineyards green, but the grapes are still dormant.
see Radio page 26
Village Community Resource Center recognizes local student for volunteer efforts. Page 5
Changes coming to California WaterFix Local Rivals Share Title
by Tony Kukulich Staff Writer
A radical change in scope for the California WaterFix project has tunnels opponents calling for the state to scrap the permit approval and begin anew. In a memo dated Feb. 7, Karla Nemeth, director of the DWR, announced that WaterFix will be developed in two stages. The first stage will include a single tunnel and two intakes with a capacity of 6,000 cubic feet per second (cfs). The second phase will add another tunnel and a third intake expanding the capacity to 9,000 cfs. “The Department of Water Resources is trying to sell its latest WaterFix revision as a one-tunnel plan, but that is smoke and mirrors,” argued State Assemblymember Jim Frazier (D - Discovery Bay). “Their plan still calls for two tunnels. The new plan still poses the same threat to the Delta’s environment, agricultural economy and way of life. There still is no cost-benefit analysis or economic justification for the project. The project still does not create
Heritage and Liberty girls’ soccer teams share title after Patriots win final BVAL game. Page 17
Photo by Tony Kukulich
Proposed changes to the California WaterFix project have opponents calling for a revision of the overall permit process. a single ounce of new water.” The previous version of the WaterFix project plan did not include a phased approach. It called for three intakes and two tunnels, each with 4,500 cfs capacity, to draw water from
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the Delta just south of Sacramento. The water would be conveyed 30 miles south through the tunnels measuring 40 feet in diameter and bur-
Ballots for Measure A, the special mail-in election ballot, which will determine if the East Contra Costa Fire Protection District Board of Directors will decrease from 9 members to 5, are due on or before March 6. For more information, visit www.eccfpd.org
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County board of supervisors announce new public works director.
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