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Our Town: A city without a city hall

Posted onSeptember 2, 2018September 2, 2018

By CHARLENE PERRY Reprinted from January 1985 Editor’s Note: Due to the pressures of time, energy and upcoming knee surgery, this writer will return from …

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Our Town: Semple of Benicia, Smith of Martinez, Alike in many ways

Posted onAugust 5, 2018August 7, 2018

By HARRIETT BURT Martinez News-Gazette Contributor Editor’s Note: This is the second part of an article about Robert Semple of Kentucky, the founder of Benicia, …

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Our Town Special Event: “Tucker: The Man and the Automobile” returns to town 30 years later to benefit MHS

Posted onJuly 29, 2018July 30, 2018

By HARRIETT BURT Martinez News-Gazette Contributor Editor’s note: A showing of the recently restored Francis Ford Coppola film “Tucker: The Man and His Dream” is …

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Our Town: Benicia’s Robert Semple set the stage for William Smith’s Martinez

Posted onJuly 22, 2018July 22, 2018

By HARRIETT BURT Martinez News-Gazette Contributor Editor’s Note: Martinez residents and businesses tend to identify with Contra Costa County in many ways and have especially …

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Our Town: Reminiscences: One by John Sparacino in 1994, One of John Sparacino in 2018

Posted onJuly 8, 2018July 9, 2018

By HARRIETT BURT Martinez News-Gazette Contributor Editor’s Note: Recently digging through Martinez Historical Society archives of newsletter articles, I found a 1994 column by then …

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Our Town: The Gazette moves to Pacheco

Posted onApril 15, 2018April 15, 2018

By HARRIETT BURT Martinez News-Gazette Contributor Happy New Year 1859 to readers of the Contra Costa Gazette/Martinez News-Gazette. 1859’s first news is about the establishment …

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Our Town: Headlines from the earliest issues of the Gazette

Posted onApril 1, 2018April 4, 2018

By HARRIETT BURT Martinez News-Gazette Contributor “The establishment of a newspaper in Contra Costa County was an important factor in its upbuilding and development,” stated …

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Our Town: Headlines from the Past – From the 19th century to the 20th

Posted onMarch 18, 2018March 22, 2018

By HARRIETT BURT Martinez News-Gazette Contributor Thank you for the good feedback about the ‘headlines’ series we started a month ago. When it was a …

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