Skip to contentEntering his senior year of high school, Liberty senior point guard Georgie Pacheco-Ortiz had zero Division I offers. Now, he’s the winningest player in school history. He’s one of four seniors that has led the Liberty basketball program from an afterthought to a program that garners national respect. Going from no offers to over 1,000 […]
MARTINEZ, Calif. – Contra Costa County Board Supervisors will consider six cannabis store proposals located on north Pacheco Boulevard, just outside the city limits, at the Dec. 10 board meeting. The City of Martinez has just approved the only two cannabis retail operations allowed in the city, Firefly, and Embarc. More retail cannabis stores just […]
A woman died in a three-vehicle collision on Highway 152 east of Gilroy Saturday night, according to authorities. About 5:11 Dec. 21, an unidentified woman was driving a Jaguar, “at a speed greater than 55 miles per hour,” westbound on Highway 152 just west of Lover’s Lane, reads a press release from the California Highway […]
I have very odd methods of doing things, I recognize this. I don’t follow anybody’s “time management system”. I adopted many of the tips that are now praised in the methodologies that “Getting Things Done“, “the Bullet Journal” and other productivity systems boast since I was a child, and I’ve faithfully kept my working habits, […]
A suspect was killed in an officer-involved shooting in the unincorporated Contra Costa County area of Pacheco this morning, sheriff’s officials said. The shooting was reported at 9:33 a.m. in the area of Pacheco Boulevard and Adelaide Drive. The suspect,
CARDENAS-PACHECO, Maria Eloisa age 77 passed away February 07, 2021 at SOIN Medical Center from complications due to COVID. She was born on March 28, 1943 to parents Ramon and Josefina (Pacheco) Cardenas. Her mother Josefina Pacheco and husband Jorge Acosta preceded her in death. She is survived by her Siblings; Sofia Ramon Pacheco, Victor […]
Legacy Fighting Alliace returns to the Mystic Lake Casino in Prior Lake, MN this Friday night to present LFA 82. The main event pits Contender series star Jamal Pogues (7-2) against undefeated prospect Alex Polizzi (5-0) in a 205 pound LFA Title Fight. Minneapolis featherweight Nate Richardson (7-1) battles unbeaten Jake Childers (7-0) of Illinois […]
Johnny Pacheco, one of the founders of the iconic Latin music label Fania Records, died Monday at age 85. Pacheco had been hospitalized in New Jersey for undisclosed reasons, according to Alex Masucci, the brother of Fania co-founder Jerry Masucci. No cause of death was provided. Fania Records revolutionized the sound of Cuban dance music […]
NEW YORK — Salsa idol Johnny Pacheco, who was a co-founder of Fania Records, Eddie Palmieri’s bandmate and backer of music stars such as Rubén Bladés, Willie Colón and Celia Cruz, died Monday. He was 85. He had been hospitalized in New York a few days earlier for pneumonia, his wife, Maria Elena “Cuqui” Pacheco, […]
Johnny Pacheco, the Dominican Republic-born flautist-turned-bandleader and the co-founder of the influential Fania Records, the label that brought salsa to the global mainstream, died on Feb.15 in Teaneck, New Jersey. He was 85. A cause of death has yet to be revealed; Billboard, citing sources, reports that Pacheco had “been hospitalized for complications stemming from […]