By Tom Lochner After almost a decade of fine-tuning, a plan to expand El Sobrante's Sikh temple to about four times its present size is ready -- or almost -- to go before the Contra Costa County Planning Commission.

A two-day show and sale of dollhouse miniatures, furnishings and dollhouses starts today in El Sobrante. Hours for the 11th Children's Hospital Annual Miniatures on Parade (aka CHAMPS) are from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

By Ryan Huff, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Aug. 7--Contra Costa supervisors unanimously rebuffed an attempt to expand the urban limit line Tuesday, declining to study a proposed 75-home El Sobrante development outside the county's voter-approved growth boundary.

By Ryan Huff, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Aug. 6--For the second time in two weeks, a developer will ask Contra Costa supervisors to study building houses outside the new voter-approved county growth boundary.

By Kimberly S. Wetzel, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. May 2--An organization with plans to operate a charter high school in Richmond or El Sobrante will present its plans to the West Contra Costa school district board tonight.