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Broadway Plaza marks 75 years with Walnut Creek parade
Broadway Plaza celebrates its 75th anniversary Oct. 17 with a storybook-themed street party featuring performers, children’s activities, pet adoptions and a 12:30 p.m. parade.
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Broadway Plaza marks 75 years with Walnut Creek parade
Broadway Plaza celebrates its 75th anniversary Oct. 17 with a storybook-themed street party featuring performers, children’s activities, pet adoptions and a 12:30 p.m. parade.
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Broadway Plaza marks 75 years with Walnut Creek parade
Broadway Plaza celebrates its 75th anniversary Oct. 17 with a storybook-themed street party featuring performers, children’s activities, pet adoptions and a 12:30 p.m. parade.
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15,000 expected at Walnut Creek Oktoberfest's Sept. 25-26 return
Walnut Creek Oktoberfest returns to Civic Park East on Sept. 25-26 with free admission, an expanded 21-and-over Chillgarten lounge, six announced musical acts, a children's zone and more than 15,000 expected attendees.
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Ygnacio Valley Library closing Sept. 9 for renovations
The Ygnacio Valley Library in Walnut Creek will close Sept. 9 for a nine-month, Measure X-funded renovation replacing the HVAC with an all-electric system, upgrading the roof and modernizing electrical and lighting, with a target reopening of May 31, 2027.
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Walnut Creek nonprofit's $5,240 grant aids endangered 'Valley Dragon'
Save Mount Diablo's $5,240 grant for a remote weather station on the Panoche Plateau is helping Fresno Chaffee Zoo scientists improve survival rates for the critically endangered blunt-nosed leopard lizard, with 118 captive-bred animals released into the wild since 2023.
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Bedford Gallery fills Lesher Center with artists' visions of California
The Bedford Gallery's annual juried exhibition "CALeidoscope" features more than 70 artists exploring California's landscapes, culture and contradictions, on view through Sept. 13 at the Lesher Center with pay-what-you-can admission.
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Walnut Creek students: AC Transit school routes resume
AC Transit's 46 supplemental school bus routes resumed Sunday, Aug. 9, for the 2026-27 school year, serving about 30,000 students across Alameda and Contra Costa counties including Walnut Creek, with discounted fares available through Youth Clipper cards.
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Downtown Walnut Creek adds murals, concerts and new businesses
Mayor Kevin Wilk's Aug. 4 Mayor's Minute highlights new downtown murals, Broadway Plaza's final summer concerts, Fall Arts + Recreation registration that opened Aug. 5 at noon, and ribbon-cutting ceremonies for MIXT and Milky Flakes.
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Walnut Creek opens applications for free Civic Academy
Walnut Creek is accepting applications for its free Civic Academy, a six-session program starting Oct. 7 that teaches residents how city government works, as the city simultaneously ramps up public engagement for its General Plan 2050 update.
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Students protect 387 oak seedlings on Mount Diablo
Save Mount Diablo hosted 66 MDUSD middle schoolers at Curry Canyon Ranch this summer, where they protected 387 blue oak seedlings as part of the nonprofit's 10,000 Trees and Plants restoration project.
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Walnut Creek dentist covers Oakland teen's wisdom teeth removal
Muir Oral Surgery in Walnut Creek selected 17-year-old Vivian Velte, an Oakland student preparing for double jaw surgery, as the 2026 recipient of its annual Wisdom for Wisdom program, which provides free wisdom teeth extraction to one local student each year.
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Walnut Creek Library hides staff pet photos for kids' month-long scavenger hunt
The Walnut Creek Library is running a free, drop-in scavenger hunt through Aug. 31 where kids search the children's section for 10 hidden photos of staff pets and earn a prize for finding them all.
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Contra Costa gas hits $5.58 a gallon, up 14 cents in a week
Contra Costa County's average gas price jumped 14 cents in one week to $5.58 per gallon as of July 24, with California's statewide average reaching $5.64 on July 31, driven by crude oil instability near the Strait of Hormuz and shrinking U.S. fuel inventories.
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East Bay Thrift Store Crawl runs through Aug. 18 in Contra Costa
Joybound People & Pets launched the free East Bay Thrift Store Crawl on Saturday, August 1, sending shoppers to 11 Contra Costa County thrift stores over 18 days with a $275 gift card grand prize for those who complete the full map.
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