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February 9, 2024
Hernandez-Thorpe, Antioch fight climate change Mayor signs pledge to reject new fossil fuel infrastructure By Jeff Weisinger Staff Writer
Antioch Mayor Lamar Hernandez-Thorpe was waiting for someone else to pull the trigger first against new fossil fuel infrastructure. But after waiting long enough, he decided that he and the city of Antioch will be the ones instead to step up. On Wednesday, the mayor signed a pledge and mayoral proclamation for the city to reject any
new fossil fuel infrastructure in an effort to steer the city toward zeroemission vehicles. “We’ve just got to deal with this in a real way,” HernandezThorpe said to The Press after the news conference. “This means that they have a government that’s listening and a government that’s taking these issues seriously. Public safety isn’t just policing, it isn’t just the challenges with homelessness, challenges for people with mental health issues, it’s also the environment. We want to make sure that people have an environment that’s clean and an environment that their children and grandchildren can look forward to.” The city of Brentwood plans
Antioch Mayor Lamar HernandezThorpe signs the pledge and proclamation to reject any new investment into fossil fuel infrastructure Wednesday in Antioch City Hall with the Sunflower Alliance behind him. Photo by Jeff Weisinger
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Area teachers might strike Oakley could get 83 new homes
By Sean Tongson
Project called The Village at 2092 Oakley Road
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By Hemananthani Sivanandam Correspondent
Photo courtesy of The Antioch Education Association
These are members of The Antioch Education Association. The organization’s president, Bob Carson (far left), said some districts are not doing what is best for students. “The Antioch Education Association and the East Bay Coalition for Student Success are focused on ensuring all students are successful,” said Antioch Education Association President and EBCSS member
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Bob Carson. “The East Bay Coalition for Student Success is a movement with the guiding principle that all students deserve a supportive environment with the see Strike page 19A
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A total of 83 single-family homes could be part of Oakley Road in the future after the city’s Planning Commission unanimously approved a redesignation of a land parcel. At its meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 6, the Planning Commission approved the application to a General Plan Amendment to redesignate 9.99 acres from commercial to a residential medium; rezone the 9.99 acres from
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East Bay teachers are preparing to go on strike if school administrators doesn’t make changes to what teachers say better serves teachers and students. At a press conference on Jan. 24 by the East Bay Coalition for Student Success (EBCSS), a student-centered coalition of 20 California Teachers Association (CTA) chapters across the East Bay, announced that chapters have authorized a strike due to what the chapter leaders say is a failure on management’s part to better prioritize needs for teachers and students, while additionally announcing other chapters either currently at an impasse or preparing to hold a strike authorization vote.
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a general commercial district to a planned unit development one; and approve a final development plan for the development of the site. It also approved a tentative map to subdivide the 9.99 acres into 83 single-family residential lots with additional on-site parking, a toddler park, community gathering areas, and other improvements. The Commission also gave the green light for a design review for floor plans and architecture of three home models, elevations, and color schemes respectively, as well as landscaping and other improvements throughout the project. According to the city staff report, the 83 homes are prosee Housing page 19A
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