Cruising Down Memory Lane features first-person anecdotes from more than 40 longtime residents about themselves and the people, places and institutions that made the city what it was in the 50s and in many ways, what it still is.
Every November we ask readers to contribute to the annual Holiday Fund, a giving campaign that benefits nonprofit organizations throughout the Tri-Valley. This year, more than $83,000 was raised.
We asked our editorial staff to reflect on their coverage from 2022 and select what they felt was their favorite story and their best story of the year. Here are their picks.
Rather than rehash familiar stories of 9/11, I wanted to individualize and share the experience this year. So I pulled my recollections of that fateful morning in 2001 and its aftermath, and asked our editorial team to do the same.