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 ...

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, ...

Junior year is infamous among students as the hardest year of high school. Juniors are expected to challenge themselves with the most rigorous courses and maintain a schedule of extracurriculars in ...

The Contra Costa County Fire Protection District, its board of directors and the ConFire Advisory Fire Commission recognized Capt. Gil Caravantes in December for an almost unheard of 40 years of ...

With fires increasing in intensity each year, and burning later and later throughout the calendar year, Contra Costa County Fire Protection District Chief Lewis Broschard said the district will no ...

"To me, the garden is a doorway to other worlds; one of them, of course, is the world of birds. The garden is their dinner table, bursting with bugs and worms and succulent berries."~ Anne Raver Birdy ...

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 ...

Suzanne and Robert Jones, longtime Lafayette residents, passed away in November. Suzanne and Robert moved to Lafayette in 1969 with their three children. Suzanne was an active volunteer. She started ...

This year is the last of Mike Metcalf's service to the town of Moraga as an elected official. For 12 years he has volunteered as a council member, including three terms as mayor. He had served an ...

In a back and forth game that at times resembled a heavyweight fight with each team taking their best shots, Campolindo fell to Milpitas by a score of 52-38. Though Campolindo stood in against the ...

Joanna Guidotti grew up in Orinda and has strong ties to the community, even though she left to open Churchill Manor in Napa 30 years ago. She inherited a half ownership in Country Club Plaza from her ...

For the fifth time, the Campolindo girls have won the state cross country championship while the boys team made it a clean sweep with their first state title. In the Division III state meet, the girls ...