While history often focuses on how women filled openings at factories as 'Rosie the Riveters' during World War II, more than 300,000 women served in the military between 1941 and 1945. In February ...

Small tremors shake the earth and nearby classrooms as concrete crumbles, giving way to dirt and leaving Acalanes' very own $2.37 million dustbowl at the center of campus. The long anticipated remodel ...

When not at his job as a Senior Water Treatment Plant Operator for East Bay Municipal Utility District, Dwight Yassany supports a wide range of good causes without any fanfare, including Water For ...

The Rotary Club of Orinda recently held its annual Field Day, for 3rd-5th graders, at Del Rey Elementary School. Violet Bathgate, pictured above winning the 50 yard dash, took two first place and one ...

The American Scholastic Press Association (ASPA) awarded the Acalanes High School newspaper, Blueprint, its "Most Outstanding High School Newspaper for 2009," which Blueprint last received in 1999.

"See what love can do" was the message of the first sermon delivered at the Orinda Community Church in 1998 by Rev. Frank Baldwin, who will retire at the end of this month. Photos Ohlen Alexander ...

Detective Berch Parker (center) smiles with Cathy Surges-Moscato, Community Service Officer (left) and Sergeant Howard Shiells (right) of the Lafayette Police Department. Photo Carol Yates Once a year ...

There is a lot of history left in a certain part of Lafayette. From Plaza Way to Golden Gate Way, Lafayette offers a quirky and charming mix of older cottages, an abandoned theater, very ...

Owner Dave Simpson and employee Alexsander Sedzielarz in front of Lafayette Book Store Photo Cathy Tyson Dave Simpson, owner of the independent Lafayette Book Store since February 1998, just announced ...

If you park your car outside 67 Loma Vista Drive in Orinda, walk up to the bright red box roughly 5 feet tall and 3 feet wide at end of the drive, nestled between two baby evergreens, and crack open ...

According to its web site the Citizen Corps' mission is "to harness the power of every individual through education, training, and volunteer service to make communities safer, stronger, and better ...

Birthday girl Mary Riggio (center) with sons Danny (right) and Vito (left) Photo Barbara Riggio Long-time Lafayette resident Mary Riggio celebrated her 100th birthday May 12 at a senior residence in ...