MARTINEZ, Calif. – Melissa Petrini, founder of The Friend Tree, a social outreach play and development center for children with autism, spoke at a recent meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Martinez. Petrini told the group autism will affect one in 50 individuals each year; as budgets are being cut, the need for services is [...]
MARTINEZ, Calif. – Main Street Martinez is asking the public once again to join them for the Hometown 4th of July Parade in downtown Martinez. Over 40 entries, including many community groups, will march down Main Street beginning at Court Street to Alhambra Avenue on Independence Day. A flag raising ceremony at the Veterans Memorial [...]
Good employees are the bedrock of any successful business, but hiring the right people can be tricky. Enter Enjoli Hintzen, human resources director for Kinder’s Meats. Kinder’s employs approximately 250 people throughout Contra Costa County and continues to expand year to year, making Hintzen an expert on best hiring practices. That’s why the Martinez Chamber [...]
The Cubs of the AA division of the Martinez Youth Baseball league beat the Orioles of Continental Little League Monday evening 14-4 before it was ended in four innings. The Cubs played against Pinole/Hercules Little League team in a Tournament of Champions (TOC) game Wednesday evening after Gazette deadline. The Cubs will be guranteed to [...]
The one thing that this country is needing right now with everything that’s going on, is we need a political cleansing, putting government back into the hands of the people instead of the ones that are buying everything out in the first place. Now, I know the Tea Party nut cases would say that’s what [...]
MARTINEZ, Calif. – Melissa Petrini, founder of The Friend Tree, a social outreach play and development center for children with autism, spoke at a recent meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Martinez. Petrini told the group autism will affect one in 50 individuals each year; as budgets are being cut, the need for services is [...]
MARTINEZ, Calif. – Main Street Martinez is asking the public once again to join them for the Hometown 4th of July Parade in downtown Martinez. Over 40 entries, including many community groups, will march down Main Street beginning at Court Street to Alhambra Avenue on Independence Day. A flag raising ceremony at the Veterans Memorial [...]
Good employees are the bedrock of any successful business, but hiring the right people can be tricky. Enter Enjoli Hintzen, human resources director for Kinder’s Meats. Kinder’s employs approximately 250 people throughout Contra Costa County and continues to expand year to year, making Hintzen an expert on best hiring practices. That’s why the Martinez Chamber [...]
By SEAN SHARKEY Gazette Contributor Eight years, eight long brutal years. That’s a long time, thousands of hours spent in some very tough places, training and fighting against very tough men. A trying journey filled with pain, a proverbial rollercoaster of emotions day in and day out. Eight years and more wars, in more places then [...]
The U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team took a commanding step towards Brazil in the past two weeks, with the Stars and Stripes winning all three of their games in this international break that saw them beat Jamaica 2-1, Panama 2-0, and most recently Honduras on Tuesday night 1-0. The Yanks’ latest game against the Hondurans [...]
The Cubs of the AA division of the Martinez Youth Baseball league beat the Orioles of Continental Little League Monday evening 14-4 before it was ended in four innings. The Cubs played against Pinole/Hercules Little League team in a Tournament of Champions (TOC) game Wednesday evening after Gazette deadline. The Cubs will be guranteed to [...]
The Cubs of the AA division of the Martinez Youth Baseball league won the Martinez championship game on June 8, beating the Athletics’ 9-8. Saturday, June 15, the Cubs played in the Tournament of Champions (TOC) where they faced the Dragons from North Oakland, according to Manager Will Frisbie. The game ended 12-6 to the [...]
Let’s get one thing straight right out of the gate here: I am not a Superman fan. I find him to be an incredibly outdated superhero who hasn’t changed much in the core of his character since his incarnation in the late 1930s. Superman more than any other hero has always felt, to me, out [...]
A hometown release party at Armando’s is scheduled for July 5 to celebrate Lucas Ohio’s much anticipated new LP, “Slingshot Kid.” Featuring 12 new songs, supporting Lucas Ohio in this effort is a band made up of some of the Bay Area’s best rock talent including John Howland on slide and lead guitar, Andrew Gibson [...]
MARTINEZ, Calif. – The Martinez News-Gazette held its 33rd Annual Art Contest this week with a great response from the locals. Eighty-two contestants from five different schools entered the competition, which prompted children to answer the question, “What’s your favorite book or story?” in a drawing. Children in kindergarten through 6th grade were eligible to [...]
Clarinet Fusion, a most unique collaboration of clarinetists, will perform on Sunday, June 30, at 2 p.m. at the Martinez Senior Center. The group features 10 superb musicians playing seven different clarinets. They range from the A-flat Piccolo clarinet, only 14 inches long, to the Double B-flat Contrabass clarinet almost nine feet in length. This [...]
“Oh Grandpa! Look at the berries!” Brie exclaimed when she saw the berry bushes growing in the yard. I watched as she carefully plucked a big juicy red raspberry from among the thorns. She showed it to her grandfather and he nodded in approval at her choice. Quick as a wink, the berry disappeared! She [...]
I have enjoyed the best apricots this year. It is a good season for them so don’t miss out. Eat them up before they are gone, as apricot season is a short season, and if you have a surplus, here is a delicious recipe for a rustic pie called a crostata. The amaretti cookies lend [...]
Big brown eyes peeped over the back of a pew three rows in front of me before church services started at St. Catherine’s of Sienna last week. The tousle haired toddler soon stood up backwards on the pew between her mom and dad. Cute as a bug’s ear, as my mother would have said. The [...]
What fun I had this weekend, harvesting my garlic. Planted in early spring (though it could have been planted in the fall) I finally got to pull these beautiful bulbs out of the dirt. By the way, if you have dirt, you can plant garlic, and onions for that matter. Such a great use of [...]
By DAVID A. RICH Gazette Columnist This happened on May 29, 1951. A version of this story was printed in the Gazette shortly thereafter. Three eighth grade girls at the Martinez Junior High School were sent to the office because of an infringement of a school rule and were left in a room in the [...]
May 28, 1754: Lieutenant Colonel George Washington begins the Seven Year’s War Twenty-two-year-old George Washington, lieutenant colonel of the Virginia militia, defeats a party of French and Native American scouts in Pennsylvania. Virginia was attempting to lay claim to the territory for its settlers. Washington had been sent by Virginia Governor Robert Dinwiddie, to build [...]
May 21, 1932: Earhart completes transatlantic flight Five years after aviator Charles Lindbergh became the first pilot to accomplish a nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, female aviator Amelia Earhart became the first pilot to repeat the feat, landing her plane in Ireland, ending her flight across the North Atlantic. She traveled 2,000 miles in [...]
April 30, 1789: First presidential inauguration One of America’s great military leaders of the American Revolution, a head commander of the colonial army, George Washington is inaugurated as the first president of the newly formed United States. He was unanimously chosen by all sixty-nine electors in February 1789. The following month, the newly drafted constitution [...]
Dear Editor, I am writing this letter regarding the graduation ceremony for Martinez Junior High School on Thursday, June 6. I was a guest at the graduation and was sitting on the lawn next to where the staff, board members, and district office personnel were seated. I was appalled to see the Superintendent, Rami Muth, [...]
I’m writing this article while sitting in my father’s chair. You know the chair of which I speak. It is that ratty old recliner that occupies the living room, den, or man-cave that no guest or other family member is ever allowed access. It belongs exclusively to my father. So, how did I plant my [...]
Now believe me, it’s actually not at all easy writing up this entry considering the fact this could go for a WIDE range of people that tend to think they’re actually doing the country a great benefit. However, just as I had thought of the fact that we happen to have communists that have gotten [...]
Well, I can see that our Martinez City Council and our mayor, along with staff, has got your minds off the marina (again). See, they come out and tell all of you, what would you all think of a brand new restaurant right down at the waters edge? Right here in Martinez? Well, we will [...]
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