With the San Francisco Giants missing the playoffs and the Oakland Athletics losing in the first round, the Bay Area can still have a rooting interest in the playoffs. All they have to do is to turn ...

A new bicycle shop has opened in Orinda at 85 Orinda Way, formerly the home of Tally Home, which closed. Andres Douzoglou had been operating his shop, Beyond Aero, in Berkeley for a little over five ...

The popular fine dining restaurant, Casa Orinda (casaorindarestaurant.com), known since 1932 for its hearty fare and cowboy-type ambience, seems to have a bevy of guests remaining on the premises long ...

On the mild evening of Oct. 9, a steady stream of people walked into the Lafayette Library's Don Tatzin Community Hall. They were going to attend the Lafayette Homeowners Council Candidates' Night, ...

On a dreary rainy day, running on a slippery, muddy course at Hayward High School, with the runners finishing the race covered in mud, the Lamorinda boys and girls cross country teams had a stellar ...

Last month the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Orinda-Moraga-Lafayette (OML) branch held their eighth Annual STEM (Science-Technology-Engineering-Math) conference at St. Mary's College ...

Over the last few years various portions of Moraga have been hit with power outages either from unknown causes or Pacific Gas & Electric Company's Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS). Residents and ...

Eighty-three years after its founding, Acalanes notched a new "first" this year, with freshman Andrew Zheng qualifying to the National Speech and Debate Association's (NSDA) National Tournament in ...

Although the film was cheerful and uplifting, several audience members who rose to make comments afterwards found themselves simply choked with tears. Such was the overwhelming response to "Between ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thus far, January has indeed been a windy month. Optimism is my true direction. The vernal equinox is still two months away, yet my jonquils are already perfuming my landscape. Daffodils are a symbol ...