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Dogs can’t stop Hawks on the boards, sent packing by 11-2 run in fourth By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune It’s the beginning of a new season for the varsity boys basketball team, but the story remains the same. This team needs help rebounding the basketball. In their 61-49 loss to ...

By DONNA BETH WEILENMAN Martinez Tribune MARTINEZ, Calif. – Contra Costa County has taken its latest step in its quest to demolish the old county jail that is on the National Register of Historic Places. The county has published a notice of preparation of an Environmental Impact Report (EIR), a ...

By DONNA BETH WEILENMAN Martinez Tribune MARTINEZ, Calif. – Santa Claus is coming to Martinez. The city hasn’t just rolled out a welcome mat; it has set up a bright red house where children will be able to visit the jolly holiday elf. The house has been set up at ...

By DONNA BETH WEILENMAN Martinez Tribune Las Juntas Elementary School could use a “sister,” two educators have suggested to the Martinez Unified School District (MUSD) Board of Education. It would be the first time the MUSD will participate in the sister school program. The sister would be a bilingual school ...

By DONNA BETH WEILENMAN Martinez Tribune MARTINEZ, Calif. – A two-day program at Alhambra High School is endeavoring to prevent its students from becoming part of a tragic set of statistics. The program is called “Arrive Alive,” and that’s its goal – helping young motorists reach their destination instead of ...

By DONNA BETH WEILENMAN Martinez Tribune MARTINEZ, Calif. – Martinez residents have nine spots where they can drop off toys for the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program that tries to assure that no child wakes up Christmas morning without a gift to unwrap, Sgt. Andrew J. Harris ...

MARTINEZ, Calif. – As organizations and individuals go about choosing their “holiday giving projects” this year, representatives from the Newborn Infant Project sponsored by the Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, Martinez, Auxiliary, ask you to please consider the babies this season. Auxiliary Volunteers put together layettes containing crib blankets, receiving ...

Alhambra’s varsity football team left the field at Bishop O’Dowd exactly 364 days after their playoff loss last year with the same result, a second-round loss. That game however could not have been more different than the gritty 17-14 loss the Bulldogs suffered at the hands of the Dragons on ...

By DONNA BETH WEILENMAN Martinez Tribune MARTINEZ, Calif. – The family of beavers that made its home in Alhambra Creek may have left Martinez after the loss of this year’s kits and an older yearling brother. But a mural proposed for a bridge near their damsite near Marina Vista Avenue ...