Barnidge: East Bay wishes for the holiday season

WORLD RECORD FOR BRENTWOOD: About five months after the 20th anniversary of the Brentwood CornFest, organizers received word that Brentwood had officially broken the world record for the most people husking corn at the same time. At Brentwood's

Barnidge: East Bay wishes for the holiday season. By Tom Barnidge Contra Costa Times Columnistcontracostatimes.com. Posted: 12/23/2012 12:01:00 AM PST. For all of us not named Scrooge, Christmas should be a time of holiday cheer. It's a time for

The Bay Area job market continued as the state's strongest after a gain of 2,900 jobs in November, a month that saw the California jobless rate slip below 10 percent for the first time in nearly four years, the state reported Friday. The employment

On December 11 East Bay MUD's board of directors decided to shelve the agency's plan for becoming an energy provider through community choice aggregation (CCA). While East Bay MUD's decision doesn't take the utility completely out of efforts to

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