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By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune It only took three minutes and 45 seconds for Clayton Valley Charter to effectively seal the fate of the reeling Bulldogs on Tuesday night. Prior to that stretch, every thing looked peachy for Alhambra. But a 16-0 Ugly Eagle run was the key turning point …

The Contra Costa County Historical Society has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). In part, the grant will fund monitoring equipment that will allow the Society to track environmental conditions in the various rooms of the Society’s History Center in Martinez.  It will also provide …

Alhambra High School senior Karissa Wiebalk (21) is this week’s Tribune Athlete of the Week, sponsored by Matthew C Rinn of State Farm. Wiebalk has made a triumphant return to the Bulldog lineup after an ACL tear and broken meniscus halfway through the last basketball season. She scored 21 points …

The Martinez Indoor Winter League consists of 58 teams, and over 500 players participating. Courts are located at NorCal Courts, 360 Ferry St., Martinez. Standings current as of  Friday, Jan. 13, 2017.

By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune The day before the Lady Bulldog basketball takes on their next opponent, they will hit 50 calendar days since the last time they lost a basketball contest. To this day it’s still the only one they’ve lost all season. But on the 44th day of …

By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune As the season wears on for the Bulldog boys, and the list of games left to play gets shorter, they’re going to want this one back. The facts are simple. Alhambra had a seven-point lead in the game before basically disappearing in the fourth quarter …

By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune The Division II runner ups from last year showed up at Alhambra probably not expecting to be served up much of a challenge. However, the last time these two teams met, the Cougars only scored a single goal in a win. This time the Bulldogs …

By ELI MORGAN Special to the Tribune Vanilla Bean Porter, 5.9 percent Alcohol by Volume (ABV), Stone Brewing Company, Escondido, California, and Richmond, Virginia This fairly new offering from Stone is real state-of-the-art brewing. It’s exceptionally good because it’s exceptionally brewed. A dark-colored vanilla tea with a huge, bountiful bouquet …

By JOHN STONE Special to the Tribune “Sherbert,” by Mr. Roper It looks like little purple octopuses in a bag. It smells like fresh cut purple lavender flower blossoms in Provence, France, in the spring. It is as dense as an adobe brick. It tastes like a purple marijuana-flavored Jolly …

Erin: Thanks for your efforts with the transcript in the Voice in the Tribune … fun to read and adds some “spice” to the paper! – Ellen Heathcote, an original subscriber