Orinda officials, including Mayor Darlene Gee and City Manager David Biggs, are expressing their delight at hiring Lashun Cross to be Orinda's next Planning Director, replacing long-serving Drummond ...

For many high school seniors, it can be a difficult time progressing from high school to college, whether it's in the arts, theater, academics or sports. In his time at Campolindo High School, Aidan ...

Brian Hanson is preparing to tee off of the first hole in Moraga. Yet, he is not holding a golf club, nor is he placing a peg in the ground at Moraga Country Club. Instead, between the skate park and ...

Many years ago, I was considering adopting two miniature ponies. When I visited the ranch where they were living there was a small pond surrounded by a flush of gorgeous pink blooms that I had never ...

On a rather balmy, late October evening, Moraga's Saint Mary's College offered a free event sponsored by the SMC Alumni Office, calling it "Brews & Boos." The title is rather self-explanatory for an ...

After a dry and hot summer, I look forward to the warm days and cooler nights of autumn. Mostly, I get excited about the changing of the guard whereby the leaves on my many deciduous trees turn into a ...

Readers of this newspaper know Cynthia Brian as the Goddess Gardener. Most recently her organization, Be the Star You Are!, a 501(c)(3), won honors as Moraga's Nonprofit of the Year for its efforts to ...

The simple and sharp design of Bill and Maria Watermans' house hugs the natural terrain of its Orinda hill. It could be a very recent creation, but in fact came out of the imagination of Sim Bruce ...

On a recent tour of Central Contra Costa Sanitary District, more commonly referred to as Central San, this reporter tagged along with about 20 other members of the public who were also interested in ...

Led by the Campolindo girls' and boys' swim teams that finished first and sixth respectively, there was a number of success stories for the Acalanes girls (11th) and boys (33rd) and for the Miramonte ...

Battalion Chief Lucas Lambert has been promoted to Deputy Chief of the Moraga Orinda Fire District (MOFD), a position approved by the directors of MOFD in June. Lambert's promotion created three other ...

With all five starters having graduated, Acalanes head coach Bill Powers is looking to move on from last season. "We're trying to build an identity of just being relentless in how we rebound and run ...