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East Bay Regional Park District fees for group picnics and group camping would also rise Jan. 1; the board tours Del Valle on Friday and takes up the $175 million Golden Gate Fields deal today.
Livermore's Planning Commission considers permit changes Tuesday night that would let California Water Service add two granular activated carbon vessels at each of three tank sites in residential neighborhoods.
Measure K would pay for structural problems found during work under a 2022 bond; the candidates split on endorsing it but agreed commuter students are key to keeping the one-school district going.
Alameda County supervisors are asked Tuesday to accept the Dublin jail's recreation-yard project as complete and raise its budget to $13.8 million, after site problems and contractor performance issues stretched the work into June.
Alameda County's standard registration deadline for Nov. 3 is Oct. 19. After that, residents can still register conditionally and vote at the county elections office, and five Pleasanton vote centers open in two waves.
Take3 plays the Violins of Hope collection at the Bankhead Theater at 2 p.m. Sunday and 7:30 p.m. Monday, and the instruments stay on free display in the lobby most afternoons through Nov. 5.
Firehouse Arts Center lists 7 p.m. shows Thursday through Saturday, with visiting Bay Area improv teams and an interactive audience format.
The Tri-Valley water wholesaler's board votes Wednesday on a four-year rate schedule. Its consultant says reserves would fall short of policy targets by 2030 without increases.
The union says 96% of members backed a walkout over pay and the courts' reliance on contract interpreters; the 15 Northern California courts say they would keep essential language services running and have proposed mediation.
The City of Pleasanton is accepting pre-applications for one-bedroom below-market-rate units at Kensington Apartments from October 16 through November 6, 2026.
The Oct. 19 private session lists the city manager appointment; the council discussed it behind closed doors in July and September with nothing to report, and Joe Calabrigo has served as interim manager since June.
The magazine's Wine Star Award recognizes the Tri-Valley's roughly 50-winery appellation, which its trade group says has spent recent years raising quality while keeping tasting rooms small and personal.
The council holds a Nov. 17 hearing on four years of sewer increases; only written protests count, and a majority of parcels protesting would block the new rates.
Oasis Restaurant & Wine Lounge is closing its Main Street location to open a new 4,000-square-foot space in the Pleasanton Hotel in early November.
GraceWay, the city's oldest congregation, held a 150th-anniversary service on Oct. 11, drawing longtime members, former pastors, and local officials.
An agricultural advisory panel wants boarding stables and riding academies treated as outright farm uses, ending five-year discretionary reviews. Critics say that would blur the line the Williamson Act draws.
The contract that has the joint fire department protecting the Veterans Affairs medical center in Livermore expires Oct. 31; the City Council is asked Tuesday to extend it through April 30, 2027, while the VA drafts a longer deal.
A consent item Oct. 20 would hire Sanbell-Bay Area to design resurfacing of two Vineyard Avenue stretches, with bids expected in spring 2027 and construction that summer.
The City Council is asked Oct. 20 to approve three applications to Caltrans' Highway Safety Improvement Program, due Nov. 2. Pleasanton would put up $714,870 of the $6.57 million total if all three are funded.
BRIDGE Housing wants the City Council's early backing on Oct. 20 for an all-affordable family rental project at 4780 Chabot Drive in Hacienda, funded in part by housing fees from a separate project and possible city fee waivers.
The utility's possible safety shutoff runs from Wednesday night into Saturday across 29 counties; Alameda County has the largest Bay Area share, including 213 customers on the medical baseline program.
