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Wal-Mart eyeing old Nob Hill for new 'Market'
Wal-Mart eyeing old Nob Hill for new 'Market'
Wal-Mart, the country's largest retailer, is seeking a Pleasanton city permit to open one of its new "Neighborhood Market" gro... |
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on Aug 25, 2011 at 8:10 am by Mal, a resident of the Danbury Park neighborhood |
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Look to Burlingame for more sizzle in downtown Pleasanton
Some merchants in downtown Pleasanton are fighting mad that neither their own Pleasanton Downtown Association nor city government are doing enough to help bolster sales and th... |
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on Feb 4, 2009 at 7:08 am by Concerned, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood |
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Amador coach among 4,700 losing jobs at NUMMI
This week, my good friend and lifelong Pleasanton resident Ken Villegas will find himself unemployed for the first time since graduating from Amador Valley High School in 1967... |
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on May 19, 2010 at 8:35 pm by Pleasanton Mom, a resident of the Mission Park neighborhood |
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Let’s take another look at the employee union contract
With new information now available from CalPERS about retirement plan funds and a group of individuals asking for a better deal from the Pleasanton city employees union, would... |
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on Feb 16, 2011 at 7:27 am by Bart Hughes, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood |
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Have churches become too big for Pleasanton neighborhoods?
Here we go again. Another Pleasanton church--Trinity Lutheran- is facing the wrath of homeowners who live nearby and even some who don’t because of this city’s absolute obses... |
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on Apr 22, 2009 at 1:47 pm by Another Gatetree Resident, a resident of the Pleasanton Valley neighborhood |
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Cleaning up Town Square
When the Town Square forum rolled out as a part of our updated sites in early 2007, we weren't exactly sure how the community would respond. Designed to be a digital version o... |
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on Nov 3, 2010 at 1:29 pm by Pleasanton Parent, a resident of the Pleasanton Meadows neighborhood |
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Thorne is 'Pro-business and proud of it'
"I'm pro-business and I'm proud of it!"
With those words not heard from a Pleasanton mayor since Ken Mercer in the 1980s, Mayor Jerry Thorne spelled out his views and gover... |
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on May 21, 2013 at 9:17 am by john, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood |
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Mayors outraged by vice president's snub
Many of the country's mayors--including our own Mayor Jennifer Hosterman-- are hopping mad over being snubbed at their recent convention in Providence, R.I. by Vice President ... |
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on Feb 3, 2011 at 9:59 am by Don, a resident of the Ironwood neighborhood |
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Tom Richert: An entrepreneur who doesn't stop
It's quite a stretch from the tony venture capital investors' offices along Page Mill Road in Palo Alto to a lumberyard in Pleasanton, but Tom Richert made that move in 1976 a... |
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on Jul 25, 2012 at 11:31 am by Rita Zumwalt, a resident of the Carriage Gardens neighborhood |
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Downtown Pleasanton needs our help
We keep hearing that the recession is on the wane. To measure the sales reports of several of the major department store chains, holiday sales were indeed favorable. Business ... |
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on Feb 3, 2011 at 7:04 pm by Steve, a resident of the Highland Oaks neighborhood |
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Get those flu shots before it gets you
Early anxiety over the swine flu has waned a bit primarily because the large numbers of flu-like illnesses being reported are just that: typical influnza that we deal with eve... |
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on Dec 2, 2009 at 10:52 am by Janna, a resident of Dublin |
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Downtown studies need public exposure
Two outside consulting agencies have been hired to help the city and the Pleasanton Downtown Association come up with marketing and nightlife entertainment strategies that can... |
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on Sep 30, 2010 at 3:40 am by Savannah, a resident of the Vineyard Avenue neighborhood |
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When Don Faught speaks, other Realtors listen
When Don Faught speaks, others listen, or at least other Realtors did last week when Faught talked about the changing work environment in real estate to a large audience at th... |
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on Feb 25, 2011 at 7:27 pm by One size doesn\'t fit, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood |
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Financial woes continuing at daily newspapers, which are mirroring state in ordering staff ‘furloughs’
State of California workers aren’t the only ones being required to take days off from work without pay, being called “furloughs” in business-speak.
Tough times are continui... |
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on Jul 31, 2010 at 3:28 pm by ru_vladimir, a resident of the Ridgeview Commons neighborhood |
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BART’s new station celebration could be its last for quite a while
At last, the costly, wrongly-built overhead steel pedestrian walkways have been carted away from the I-580 freeway shoulders at the new BART-West station, just in time for the... |
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on Mar 26, 2011 at 12:08 pm by Gary Schwaegerle, a resident of the Downtown neighborhood |
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The Pleasanton Weekly--newly designed, easier to read
Ever find yourself looking at a co-worker who just shaved off his moustache or a female colleague who's sporting a new hairstyle, but you just can't quite pinpoint why they lo... |
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on Jun 8, 2009 at 11:12 pm by Not Happy, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood |
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Bob Athenour: Our sister city champ turns 80
Having just turned 80, Bob Athenour won't be skydiving out of a plane as former President George H. W. Bush did--and again two weeks ago on his 85th--but he will keep making t... |
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on Jun 25, 2012 at 11:31 pm by Mike, a resident of another community |
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Rwanda 'healing' a formula for peace
Centerpointe Presbyterian Church pastor Mike Barris has returned from a trip to Rwanda, inspired by the tremendous success he saw there in national renewal and family reconcil... |
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on Nov 24, 2009 at 11:38 am by cholo, a resident of Livermore |
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Don’t count Nostrand out in future elections
Fellow business associates and friends crowded into a newly-expanded outdoor seating area the other day to celebrate its official opening at the Hop Yard American Alehouse & G... |
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on Jul 24, 2010 at 9:39 am by You Know You\'re Old School Pleasanton if....., a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood |
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New Bernal bridge opens, one more to go
A new section of the Bernal Avenue bridge over the Arroyo Del Valle opened last month without fanfare or even without the City Council riding in the first cars to cross the $7... |
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on Nov 23, 2009 at 1:48 pm by Dan Doerr, a resident of the Ruby Hill neighborhood |
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From websites to mailbox delivery, New Media is changing
As readers, viewers and advertisers shuffle the ways they get their news and sell their products as if they have some sort of a universal remote capable of switching media, th... |
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on Jan 13, 2009 at 4:09 pm by Stacey, a resident of the Amberwood/Wood Meadows neighborhood |
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Hungry in Manhattan at 2 a.m.
My wife Jan and I are just back from another quick trip to Manhattan to visit our son Chris, daughter-in-law Mary and our adorable 14-month-old grandson Jonathan. Chris met ou... |
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on Dec 15, 2010 at 12:50 pm by Look at the date, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood |
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A waitress many of us know says goodbye
Those of us who dine frequently at Vic's All-Star Kitchen are also good friends of Patti Benson, who's been Vic's restaurant manager for the last 11 years and was just as well... |
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on Nov 15, 2010 at 7:00 pm by Marcia Kernan, a resident of another community |
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Let's keep local journalism thriving
Let's keep local journalism thriving
For more than a decade, the Pleasanton Weekly has delivered news about our town dependably every Friday. We have brought you stories ab... |
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on May 6, 2011 at 7:35 am by Jeb Bing, editor of the Pleasanton Weekly |
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Axis Community Health needs our help
Drive by Axis Community Health's aging facilities on Railroad Avenue any weekday morning and you're likely to see patients waiting to see a doctor or nurse that Axis provides.... |
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on Jan 13, 2011 at 10:45 pm by Over a month old, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood |
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