So This Happened…Week of Oct. 31 through Nov. 6, 2022
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CA (Nov. 6, 2022) — About 30 people gathered in downtown Concord on Nov. 2 to remember Timothy Charles Lee, who was found hanging near the Concord BART Station in 1985.
The group, led by Lee’s cousin, is hoping officials will open a new investigation into the death. “We want justice for Timmy, and we are the generation that’s hopefully going to make it happen,” Frank Sterling told the crowd. Read the full story.
Discussion on banning books: The increased trend of book banning in America is the focus of a webinar at 4 p.m. Nov. 17. Speakers include Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association Office of Intellectual Freedom; Diablo Valley College professor Mickey Huff, director of Project Censored; and librarians from Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Read the full story.
Holiday roundup: The Pioneer’s haunting and happy Halloween photo gallery. Search for turkeys, make corn husk dolls at East Bay parks. Concord’s Turkey Trot 5K run/walk to benefit Loaves and Fishes. And, free holiday grief workshop aids those coping with loss.
More stories
Here are some other stories the Pioneer covered recently:
Showing your true face – and seeing beyond others’ masks.
Retiring Pleasant Hill mayor reviews progress since 1999.a
Learning to help socialize the anti-social rabbit.
Obituary: Jerry North of Concord.
Concord and Clayton PD reports.
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Bev Britton
Bev Britton graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of North Dakota and moved to the Bay Area with her soon-to-be husband Jim in 1986. She was features editor at the Contra Costa Times in Walnut Creek before becoming managing editor of the Contra Costa Sun in Lafayette in 1995. She retired from newsrooms in 2001, but an ad for the Clayton Pioneer drew her back in. The family moved to Lake Wildwood in the Gold Country a few years ago - but working at the Pioneer keeps her in touch with her old neighborhoods in Concord and Clayton.