Food Pantry continues service
Charles Reed, Staff writer
March 18, 2020
Due to Contra Costa County’s shelter-in-place, Los Medanos College’s campus has been closed since March 16. However, the LMC Food Pantry is still available for student service with limited hours. “It might help to alleviate some of the stress around the virus since the stores have been emptied...
Custodians clean the closed campus
Yesenia Mendez, Staff Writer
March 18, 2020
Due to the recent campus closure caused by COVID-19 virus concerns, the Los Medanos College custodial staff has been working around the clock to ensure the campus is sterile and safe for the return of staff and students. “We have been extremely busy. My staff and I have been disinfecting ...
‘Shelter in Place’ hits Contra Costa County
Katie Loughran, @Katie__Loughran
March 18, 2020
Contra Costa County is among five other Bay Area counties to be put under a shelter-in-place directive by county public health officials. This includes all Contra Costa Community College District sites, like Los Medanos College. The directive follows the increasing number of COVID-19 reports ...
Campuses in CCCCD close
Krys Shahin and Jordyn Toscano
March 15, 2020
Interim Chancellor Gene Huff sent out a press release to all employees of the Contra Costa Community College District today, March 15, to alert them that all campuses will be closed until further notice. As it stands all five locations under the district, Contra Costa College, Diablo Valley College-Pleasan...
District reacts to COVID-19 pandemic
Jordyn Toscano and Krys Shahin
March 12, 2020
Editor's note: There are now 2,523 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 virus in Contra Costa County with 32 hospitalizations and 67 deaths as of June 24. As more cases of the novel Coronavirus are identified in Contra Costa County, the Contra Costa Community College District is working to provide new guida...
Lab concerns
Hillary Hetrick and Jordyn Toscano
March 12, 2020
The transition of all Los Medanos College lecture classes to online lectures will take place from March 16 to April 13, or until further notice, based on health recommendations from the Contra Costa Community College District. As a result, many students and staff are concerned about what will be...
Fiscal impact
Bailee Lewis and Adriana Ivanoff
March 12, 2020
The worldwide pandemic caused by the massive spread of the Coronavirus is not going to just affect people's health, but all businesses relying on face-to-face communications or outsourced factories. This scope includes Los Medanos College, to Pittsburg and Brentwood, to the Bay Area, America, and even...
Online transition
Weston Hopkins and Selena Buitrago
March 12, 2020
With the potential threat of the COVID-19 virus spreading in the Contra Costa Community College District, Los Medanos College will begin a trial period of online-only lecture classes in place of face-to-face lectures for the targeted time period of March 16 to April 13. The campus will remain open to students, but...
Study abroad
Yesenia Mendez and Spencer Cameron
March 12, 2020
The Contra Costa Community College District is canceling all unnecessary trips that consist of traveling for staff and students. As of March 10, Los Medanos College reports to have zero confirmed cases of the novel Coronavirus on the campus, but they are following specific guidelines from the Contra Cost...
LMCAS works on projects
Jordyn Toscano and Katie Loughran
March 5, 2020
“The Los Medanos College Associated Students is a student organization that is devoted to advocating for the LMC students,” said LMCAS president Thyra Cobbs. “We are diverse and we represent the different aspects of the student population.” LMCAS is the student government at LMC with the goal of providin...
Student Union soon to open
Weston Hopkins and Krys Shahin
March 5, 2020
Construction continues on the new Student Union Building at Los Medanos College. While the bookstore and second floor — that houses the new Honors Center, Umoja, Student Life and others, have been open to the public but the rest of the building is still being finished. The remaining work revolves around the new cafeteria, a student activit...
Combating the Coronavirus
Krys Shahin and Jordyn Toscano
March 5, 2020
The Contra Costa Community College District, along with other schools in the Northern California Study Abroad Consortium, are responding to the Novel Coronavirus outbreak in Europe by bringing home all students and staff currently studying abroad in Italy. Over 100 students, who have been staying in ...
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