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By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune As recently as last season the Lady Bulldog’s games could be described with a single clichéd phrase. “They made them earn it.” It was a catch-all term used as a form of consolation in the case of a loss wherein the team they matched up ...

By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune The popularly coined phrase, “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it,” has never applied to Alhambra’s junior varsity football team. The team was very much broken and needed to be fixed. That fix was made and generated results almost instantly Friday night, earning the Bulldogs ...

By DONNA BETH WEILENMAN Martinez Tribune A brush fire burned 5.1 acres at Briones Regional Park and neighboring Martinez-area land before Contra Costa County Fire Protection District brought it under control, Fire Marshal Robert Marshall said Monday afternoon. The land has been used for grazing cattle, and that helped firefighters, ...

By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune On a night when Miramonte put up a 49-6 win, the Bulldogs nearly matched the Matador output by scoring 48 in a win over the Washington-Fremont Huskies Friday night. The win puts the Bulldogs at 3-1 overall, and sets up a dream match-up for the ...

By DONNA BETH WEILENMAN Martinez Tribune MARTINEZ, Calif. – Martinez Unified School District has received the results of its first round of Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium tests, administered in spring. Before a presentation to the district Board of Education, staff members told the panel to expect lower results than from ...

By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune Alhambra tennis battled to a big 5-4 victory over the Pittsburg Pirates as the Diablo Foothill Athletic League campaign approaches. “It is always a great match up with Pittsburg – good competitive tennis and great sportsmanship,” said Coach Sarah Gallagher. Top singles Katie Hoffman played ...

By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune In two days the Bulldog varsity water polo team has put more than 30 goals in the net against their visiting opponents, with their most recent effort coming in a big win over the St. Patrick-St. Vincent-Vallejo Bruins. The Bulldogs racked up 21 goals in ...

By JOEL TIMBRELL Special to the Tribune After training through the summer’s relentless heat for months, the Alhambra Bulldog cross country team arrived at the Ed Sias Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 11, ready for their first race. The always competitive Ed Sias Invitational is always held at Martinez’s Hidden Valley ...

By JULIE LINFORD Special to the Tribune This week we will celebrate the 500th free-roaming cat rescued from certain death at Contra Costa County Animal Services (CCAS) since the inception of our Return to Field (RTF) program in November 2014. It’s pretty sad to consider that we need to take ...

By KRISTIN HENDERSON Special to the Tribune We are not talking cheap meat here In the development of Martinez, the Northern Italian immigrants that came before the Fisher people were farmers and wine makers and were also major contributors to the town we know of today. Martinez’s climate is much ...