Four Campolindo High School seniors (Tatiana Gessling, Maddie Larson, Alanna McCauley and Megan DeTrane) recently earned Girl Scout's highest honor, the Gold Award. All four girls have been scouts ...

Nadia Mujaddidi, fifth grader at Del Rey Elementary School in Orinda, took second place at the countywide spelling bee on March 24.

The Fifth Grade "All Lafayette" team won it's third consecutive championship for the competitive Next Level program at De La Salle. The team has played together since the first grade and gone ...

Orinda's City Council and Planning Commission met in front of a nearly packed house at a joint session March 12. Twenty-eight residents provided feedback regarding downtown development before the ...

There is a good chance that one of the Moraga-Orinda Fire District firefighters who responds to your emergency call either lives in the district, grew up in the district or graduated from one of the ...

Y ou don't need a green thumb to know that we live in an area of microclimates, but observant local gardeners will you tell that sub-microclimates may exist on any single plot of land. Microclimates ...

The Bee Man. The Egg People. The Jam Lady. The names may sound like a list of Hollywood super powered movie villains, but to Orindans, they are old friends who magically appear with truckloads of ...

Private lessons in all instruments, including guitar, piano, drums, band instruments, strings and voice. Also private lessons in languages, including Italian, French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and ...

Pacific Gas and Electric Company officials announced March 27 that they are putting a hold on tree removal related to the utility's Pipeline Pathways safety program in East Bay communities, except on ...

The 5th Grade AAU Bay Area Blitz girls basketball team were dominant in winning the Bay City Spring Tipoff tournament held the weekend of March 24 in Pacifica. The girls went undefeated, beating ...

I can't say my first week with the Lamorinda Weekly was explosive, but it certainly wasn't dull. I came on board as editor - replacing the great Jennifer Wake - the same week a Moraga sinkhole "ate" a ...

St. Perpetua 5th grade CYO National team, with a 11-0 record, won the West Diablo 5th grade National Division. Pictured in the top row (left-to right) Coach Dino Duque, Emily Collins, Grace Deskin, ...