Jeanita Lyman

The San Ramon City Council's newest member is seeking to remain on board for another four years, with District 2 representative Richard Adler gearing up for his first campaign for office after nearly two years on the job.

The San Ramon City Council is poised for a special meeting this week ahead of its regular session to review and select applicants for a number of advisory bodies.

While details remain sparse in the wake of a high-profile FBI raid on the Contra Costa County Assessor's Office and the homes of its two top officials earlier this year, the independent accounting firm tasked with evaluating that office's financial compliance is set to be busier than ever following a contract amendment to fund an expanded audit scope and other analysis that was approved by the Board of Supervisors last week.

The San Ramon Planning Commission is poised for a study session and concept review Tuesday on a nine-unit housing project being considered for a portion of the Faria Preserve site that was previously zoned for an unspecified house of worship facility.

A former student athlete and competitive chess player from San Ramon was killed in a solo crash in Livermore last week, with the Alameda County Coroner's Bureau identifying Ashwin Punaroor as the teenager who died at the scene.

Additional details about a new "Gilmore Girls" festival coming to Danville this fall are on tap at this week's Town Council meeting after the news was first reported last week.

With Aisha Wahab off to Washington to complete the remaining congressional term of disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell, she has notched a final win in Sacramento with the successful passage of a new state law to regulate Alameda County's discretionary spending – and the local officials with whom she clashed on the bill are planning their next moves.

Playwright Eugene O'Neill is known for both his complicated personal life – and works based on it – and his ongoing impact on modern American theatre, with those two factors set to be center stage at this year's festival celebrating his life and work.

More than four years after opening its doors in downtown Danville, the bar and restaurant Virtue + Vice is poised to serve its final meals and drinks this weekend.

A San Ramon man is seeking to bring the lessons he's learned from an education at UC Berkeley and years of world travel during his career in tech startups to his hometown's government this November, with Jeffrey Joh challenging the incumbent for the District 4 seat on the City Council.