Threats against two Bay Area high school campuses prompted a lockdown at one school and a shelter-in-place order at another Monday afternoon, according to authorities. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | Editorial: San Ramon Valley voters should reject school tax proposals Crime and Public Safety | Editorial: Voters in Los Gatos-Saratoga high school district should reject parcel tax hike Crime and Public Safety | Play Like a Girl+ Piedmont set for May 5 at high school’s Witter Field Crime and Public Safety | Library Lines: Free Comic Book Days returning to Contra Costa branches Cr ..read more

Miramonte lacrosse player Sydney Gray is the Bay Area News Group’s girls high school athlete of the week for March 25-30. In online voting that ended at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Gray finished with 40.49% of the votes. San Mateo softball player Nia Mapa was second at 30.58%. Congratulations to all the candidates for this week’s recognition. Gray scored six goals and had two assists in an 18-16 victory over Berkeley. The freshman began this week with 30 goals and 14 assists this season. To nominate an athlete for next week’s poll, email highschools@bayareanewsgroup.com by Monday at 11 a.m. Please ..read more

Hours before a walkout, administrators at the Pleasanton Unified School District coughed up a 10% pay hike earlier this month to keep teachers from hitting the picket line. But teachers aren’t the only ones benefiting from a salary boost. Thanks to a contract clause known as “me too,” high-paid district administrators will receive identical raises as the employees whose contracts they helped negotiate. Pleasanton isn’t an outlier. The “me too” clause included in several school districts’ faculty and staff contracts negotiated every three years specifies that when one bargaining unit receives a ..read more

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. CalFresh meant tohelp people in need Re: “CalFresh setup causes a stink” (Page A1, March 20). I found the article on CalFresh disturbing. I was under the impression that programs like CalFresh were established to help those in real need: seniors on limited fixed incomes; people who, for reasons beyond their control, are in need of temporary assistance; people without family or other resources. I do not see how a 24-year-old college graduate falls into any of these categories. She does not need assistance. She need ..read more

As gusty winds swirled over the Bay Area on Thursday, PG&E power outage Thursday shut down BART service in two areas of the system, officials said. Related Articles Transportation | VTA quest to seize San Jose site for BART station heads to court trial Transportation | East Bay man arrested for allegedly breaking BART fare machine, stealing cash box Transportation | San Jose BART extension price tag balloons once again — this time by $600 million Transportation | East San Jose light rail extension approved despite $122 million in budget overruns Transportation | Trespasser on tracks ..read more

MARTINEZ — Prosecutors here have charged a Vallejo man with robbing a local resident during a purported car sale, in a case where the suspect was identified because he allegedly told the victim about his aspiring rap career. The 28-year-old Vallejo resident was charged on Feb. 20 with robbery and having a prior strike conviction. He pleaded not guilty on March 4, and is in court this week for a preliminary hearing before Contra Costa Judge John Kennedy, who will rule whether the prosecution has enough evidence to keep the case going, court records show. The robbery occurred Aug. 3, when the vi ..read more

Below are results from the Contra Costa County registrar of voters for the March 5, 2024, primary election. Results from other counties and California are at these links: Alameda County San Mateo County Santa Clara County San Francisco California Read all of our election stories here and follow updates and analysis from Bay Area, California and national races in our live stream. Use this link if you are having trouble receiving the results on your mobile device. To go directly to Contra Costa County’s election results site, use this link. Presidential race U.S. Senate and U.S. House races ..read more

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Measure B fails toprioritize academics Measure B is a $195 million bond (pretty word for tax) to paint, repair and update Antioch schools. Two prior bonds (taxes) were passed to do the same thing. Students in Antioch schools are scoring poorly on state testing. For Example: Black Diamond Middle School Math: 8% proficiency. This means 92% of the students are below grade level. Only two students in a classroom of 25 can do math at grade level on average. Reading: 18% proficiency Less than five students in a classroo ..read more

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Lee will representthe underrepresented I would like to provide a perspective from a California citizen concerning the upcoming election for U.S. Senate. I believe that Barbara Lee is the best candidate running for the position due to her extensive experience in Congress and her diverse background. As a woman of color who has experienced hardships ranging from having an abortion in a dark alley to being raised in a segregated town, she is equipped with the skills and knowledge to advocate for California and our div ..read more

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Election letters cutoff Wednesday at noon is the last day to submit letters pertaining to the March 5 election. To submit a letter, please fill out the form at eastbaytimes.com/letters-to-the-editor. We do not accept letters by email. Vote no onAlameda Measure E Measure E is a regressive, exorbitant tax on some homeowners of an astounding almost $2,000 a year. At $0.585 per square foot, that is $1,170 per year for a 2,000-square-foot house and $1,755 per year for a 3,000-square-foot house. Ironically, the tax ..read more