In mid-July, the Orinda Network for Education (ONE Orinda) hired Emily Allen as executive director. Allen, who is a resident of Orinda, is close to the education community. Her husband is the head ...

It appears that Moraga Shopping Center's Safeway is going to have some competition in the not-so-distant future. The Planning Commission approved a partial redevelopment of the Rheem Valley Shopping ...

Addressed as "Mayor Dawson" at the start of a phone conversation two weeks after the Dec. 11 city council meeting during which the annual reorganization to approve a new mayor was enacted, her reply ...

Every new year in Moraga brings a reorganization to the town council. This year is no exception. At the helm of the town council is new mayor Renata Sos, with the vice mayoral duties belonging to Sona ...

The Moraga Town Council Dec. 9 quietly recommended a 6.75% garbage collection rate increase for residents starting in March. The recommendation passed unanimously with no council discussion or public ...

Acalanes girls basketball (11-3) is a team without a senior on the roster, but they can claim to be as experienced as any opponent they will face this year. With a starting lineup of five juniors, ...

This is the second time Ken Chew will sit in the mayor's seat and wield the gavel as the leader of the Town Council, setting the tone for the town in 2014. Chew, a professional civil engineer and ...

This year's mayor looks surprisingly like the 2010 mayor. The five members of the Lafayette City Council rotate the mayor-ship, so Brandt Andersson once again wields the seldom used gavel. He's been ...

It took less than an hour for the Moraga School District Governing Board to decide on Parker Colvin to fill the seat left empty by Dexter Louie's sudden resignation. The choice of Colvin over Dr.

Residents looking for some light reading to kick off the year may want to consider the Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the proposed 315-unit, multi-family Terraces of Lafayette project ...

According to the California Department of Insurance, property insurance is becoming harder to find for residents in high-risk wildfire areas. As portions of the Moraga-Orinda Fire District lie in ...

Lafayette City Clerk Joanne Robbins at the Dec. 12 city council meeting administered the oath of office to the three re-elected council members - Susan Candell (four-year term), Teresa Gerringer (four ...