
Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market, the value-priced grocer of healthful and convenient products, has experienced tremendous success with its Pleasanton, Danville, and Walnut Creek stores. The upstart market has hit a growth spurt lately with roughly 20 future stores planned throughout the Northern California area. Some new stores even have a convenience store format similar to a 7-Eleven.
Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market offers a variety of ways to save including the “buy one get one,” “half off,” and other standard discounts on meats, meals, fruits, and vegetables readily available to all shoppers. For customers who are looking to stretch their dollars a little further, they can join Fresh & Easy’s Friends program to save even more money. These bonus points are in addition to the reward points many shoppers get from their credit cards.
The Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market’s Friends is pretty straightforward. Shoppers who sign up will immediately receive 250 points in their accounts. Every $1 spent at Fresh & Easy earns another point. Every 500 points earned can be converted to $5 in-store cash.

Doolan Canyon is a gorgeous piece of currently protected land sandwiched between Dublin and Livermore, CA. Pacific Union Homes, the City of Dublin, and an investment group led by Charter Properties and the Lin Family are hoping to develop the area as part of what is currently proposed to be an active lifestyle senior community with 1,990 homes. With the ambitious city councilmember Eric Swalwell hungry for campaign contributions as he aims for a seat in the U.S. Congress, Dublin is well on its way to expand eastward…
High schools are increasingly being evaluated by the success of their Advanced Placement (AP) programs. The AP program is a series of college-level courses offered to high school students. If students score high enough on the AP Exam for the course, they can receive college credit from most universities. AP Exams are graded on a scale of 1 to 5. While a score of 3 is considered passing, some elite universities like Cornell University will only award college credit if students score a 4 or higher on the…
Nearly 24 hours after the notorious cannonball incident that made world news, the All-America City of Dublin, CA has finally come through with an official statement regarding the near tragedy. According to the City’s official statement, Dublin Police Services is now investigating the case involving an errant cannonball that struck two homes and damaged a vehicle in the City of Dublin earlier this week. Because the City of Dublin does not have jurisdictional oversight of activities that occur at the County’s Training Center, the City is asking residents…

Formerly known as the Mission Peak project, the Fallon Crossing project in All-America City Dublin, CA is likely to be the next new home development of East Dublin. Located on the northwest corner of Tassajara Road and Fallon Road, Fallon Crossing by Standard Pacific Homes is expected to have 106 single family homes right next to KB Home’s Bella Monte project. Street names such as Syrah Drive and Pinot Noir Court give a hint as to the most distinctive feature of Fallon Crossing. The Fallon Crossing homeowners association…
City officials have confirmed that the grand opening of Kaiser Permanente’s medical facility in Dublin, CA has been pushed out to at least 2020. Kaiser Permanente had originally expected to complete its East Dublin medical facility project by 2015; however, it may still build and open the medical offices before 2020. Kaiser Permanente has reportedly held off building its Dublin facility until it has completed its San Leandro project in October 2014. Kaiser Permanente’s medical facility projects typically take about five years to finish. If the San Leandro…

Ross Stores recently confirmed that it will be moving its headquarters from Pleasanton to Dublin’s Emerald Point office complex by mid-2014. Ross reportedly paid around $68M for the Dublin facility that will have 414,000 square feet of class A space and be able to accommodate up to 2,050 employees. Ross had also reportedly been looking to buy the raw land owned by the Alameda County Surplus Authority to build its new headquarters from the ground up directly across from Sybase. That plan would have included the parcel billionaire…

Braddock & Logan recently put the finishing touches on the necessary infrastructure and utility improvements at the 4.6-acre Positano Hills Park in Dublin, CA. The City of Dublin is expected to start construction on the $1.5M park in Spring 2012. Final design of Positano Hills Park is underway, and construction is expected to be completed by Fall 2012.

Dublin High School’s students and teachers had much to celebrate in 2011. Dublin High was able to grow its API score to 879 from last year’s score of 867. This score ranks amongst the highest of Alameda County. Dublin High School unveiled the newly-constructed humanities, arts, library, counseling, career center, and administrative buildings this year as part of the $120M Measure C project. Dublin High also played host for California Assemblywoman and long-time San Ramon Valley Unified School District Board Trustee Joan Buchanan, as she toured the school…
Come along and enjoy the holiday season at Dougherty Elementary School’s Winter Wonderland in Dublin, CA. Students are busy creating many wonderful holiday gifts for their Student Craft Fair on Friday, December 9th, from 5:00PM to 7:00PM. The festive fun will focus on over 30 students who will be selling their handmade products throughout the evening making this a great new family shopping tradition right here in the Emerald City. All funds raised, except those from the sale of handmade products at The Student Craft Fair, will help…

The founders of Tassajara Preparatory High School, a public charter school expected to open Fall 2012 in Dublin, CA, recently announced their intentions to claim 30 acres of land at the future Dublin Crossing development for its permanent campus. Located directly across Dublin Boulevard from the East Dublin BART Station, the 180-acre parcel will be developed by SunCal into a mixed-use community that will include 1,500 new housing units. “We wanted to wait to make the formal announcement until after Lawrence Berkeley National Lab rejected the Dublin Crossing…