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Nov 27, 2024 · Hundreds of people stood in line Wednesday morning to be the first customers inside Pleasanton's brand-new Costco, which officially opened its doors after nearly a decade of planning, legal hurdles and construction.

Jan 7, 2025 · The Bay Area Blasters Major League Table Tennis team is back in action this weekend at the Alameda County Fairgrounds. (Photo courtesy TW Huang/MLTT) There have been numerous sports that have come through the Pleasanton area, with the Alameda County Fairgrounds being the host spot. I can personably ...

Jan 2, 2025 · A tiny home neighborhood for previously unhoused residents of the Tri-Valley appears on the brink of a much-needed and long-awaited expansion. Located on the Crosswinds Church land in Livermore, Goodness Village — an independent nonprofit organization — intends to build a new community center ...

Jan 9, 2025 · The city's joint project with the Zone 7 Water Agency to test viable locations in West Pleasanton for two potentially new groundwater wells outside of a PFAS plume is going as planned, with the test drilling coming to an end soon at Del Prado Park in Pleasanton this month, according to officials with both agencies.

Jan 13, 2025 · Former Brentwood resident Allie Re broke into Broadway late last year, playing as a ghost named Moaning Myrtle in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” at the Lyric Theatre. (Photo by Matthew Murphy) Multi-talented actor and singer Allie Re was cast in her first Broadway role late last year in an ...

Jan 9, 2025 · You certainly can’t tell the history of Pleasanton in the last 50 years without a chapter on Callahan. In the late 1970s, Callahan partnered with Prudential Insurance Co. to purchase and develop land in North Pleasanton into Hacienda Business Park — a move that not only changed the city’s course in terms of corporate and commercial growth, but improved transportation, flood mitigation ...

Nov 25, 2024 · Pleasanton’s incoming police chief, Tracy Avelar. (Photo courtesy City of Pleasanton) The city of Pleasanton has selected Tracy Avelar, Foster City’s current chief of police, as the Pleasanton Police Department’s next police chief, the city announced on Monday.

Jan 14, 2025 · Parkwest Casino 580 received a positive recommendation from the Livermore Planning Commission for its operational and parking expansion proposal. (Photo by Jude Strzemp) The Livermore Planning Commission unanimously supported an operational and parking expansion for Parkwest Casino 580 as well as ...

Dec 10, 2024 · The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public for help to solve some cold case homicides that occurred in the ’70s and ’80s in Sunol and Dublin following their recent anniversaries. Alameda County Sheriff’s Office logo. ACSO Sgt. Roberto Morales told the Weekly that the office ...