Council's BART Decision, Reported Gang Fight Top Past Week's Coverage

Here is a list of top stories from our coverage in the past week:

Monday, July 11

• City Council to keep any BART extension into Livermore on Interstate 580.
• bemoans the council's decision last month to order an expensive study on possible BART routes after it cut funding for the city's annual fireworks event.
• Learn more about the , tasked with redrawing the boundaries for the state's political districts.

Tuesday, July 12

• Police responded to reports of a on Dolores Avenue. Two teenagers were arrested.
• Livermore Area Recreation and Parks District says it wants to bring back the city's annual fireworks celebration at Robertson Park, but .
• Attendance at this year's rose 8 percent over last year.
• Tuition at California State University campuses will for the 2011-12 school year. Later in the week, the Board of Regents for the University of California would approve its own tuition hike of 9.6 percent.

Wednesday, July 13

• For this week's Wine Wednesdays segment, Monique Soltani .
• The Alameda County Board of Supervisors at its meeting on Tuesday. Under the new boundaries, Livermore would gain all of Dublin but lose Pleasanton in its District 1 representation.

Thursday, July 14

• Businesses react to city's ordinance , which went into effect July 1.
• In this week's Chamber Pulse, discusses online security issues for small businesses and what they can do to protect themselves.
• Firefighters from the Livermore-Pleasanton and Alameda County Fire Departments helped on the hills of the Altamont, which burned 400 acres.

Friday, July 15

• The nomination period for the city's opens Monday. Livermore voters will choose a new mayor and fill two City Council seats.
• is operating in Livermore for the third summer in a row, training teenagers to install devices in homes that help residents conserve energy.
• Pleasanton Patch visited the Regal Cinema in Dublin for of the final installment in the Harry Potter franchise.

Saturday, July 16

• Livermore commuters could get some relief come July 25, when Caltrans along a busy stretch of I-680.
• Our biweekly Nature Calls column by Samuel Samson gives us an inside look into Walnut Creek's , a desert oasis of succulents.
• We've rounded up great spots across the Tri-Valley for soccer fans to .

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