The free festival at San Ramon's Central Park will feature fine arts, crafts, specialty food vendors, three entertainment stages, children's puppet shows and of course, kites.

After a four-hour meeting Tuesday night in Danville, the SRVUSD board approved in a 4-1 vote a pilot program to convert a girls' bathroom at each campus into a multi-stall, gender-neutral bathroom starting fall semester.

Coinciding with International Museum Day, San Ramon's 16-acre Forest Home Farms celebrated the completion of a series of renovations made to its Old Barn with a special reopening of the building for residents on Saturday afternoon.

Dr. Peter P. Wong, an early founder of Hope Hospice and a pioneer in the Bay Area in the medical fields of cancer treatment, hospice services and palliative care, died peacefully April 16, according to family.

Danville resident Keith Leung, 34, died after his Tesla Model S vehicle was found in a pond off of Crow Canyon Road just outside San Ramon on Sunday night. Leung worked as an engineer in Bay Point and as an active member of the Danville Community Band.

Meridian has big plans for its new purchase, a currently vacant parcel located in Modesto at 1328 Coffee Road, intending to turn the land into a 11,250-square-foot ambulatory outpatient facility.

Construction, which began Monday, will consist of striping class two and three bicycle lanes for approximately four miles along Blackhawk Road between Mt. Diablo Scenic Blvd and Camino Tassajara. Work is expected to be completed by June 8 but commuters along the road should expect delays during that time.

Residents will help determine their local representatives for the U.S. Congress, State Assembly and key county positions such as district attorney, superintendent of schools and auditor-controller.