Pacific Swimming, the third largest of USA Swimming's 59 regional associations, which comprises 120 swim clubs and more than 16,000 swimmers, named Ron and Don Heidary (Ronnie and Donnie to their ...

Local voters re-elected a pair of incumbents and one newcomer to the Acalanes Union High School District board of directors on Election Day Tuesday. Incumbents Nancy Kendzierski garnered 19,566 votes ...

For the past 41 years community members have been coming to the Orinda Community Center to shop for one-of-a-kind holiday gifts. This year's 42nd Annual Holiday Bazaar, to be held at the Community ...

It was a sad day, said Moraga resident John Anderson, who watched as this store fixture from Moraga's Orchard Supply Hardware was purchased and hauled outside on the store's final day of operation Nov ...

Major fires the last Sunday of October pushed the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District to its limits and caused the evacuation of thousands of residents in Lafayette, all part of possibly the ...

At a special Moraga Town Council meeting on Oct. 30, Stars Holding Co., LLC, property owner of 398 Rheem Blvd., made an appeal regarding the Notice and Order to Abate Violations. The town states: the ...

Good Samaritan Jeovani Abenoja, and Chuck Jenkins on the Jenkins’ back deck Photo Cathy Tyson It was Betty and Chuck Jenkins' lucky day. Turns out their regular carrier technician, Jeovani Abenoja ...

Tom "Mac" McIntosh, assumed leadership of Troop 212 in Moraga for what he thought would be a four-year commitment. Thirty-seven years later, Mac is stepping down as scoutmaster and leaving a lasting ...

Northern California's Lamorinda Baseball Club (LBC) 12U Fall Ball Team won the Las Vegas Desert Classic by defeating the South Bay Diamondbacks, also from Northern California, 11-3 in the championship ...

Unlike in the U.S. presidential race, there was no drawn out, nail-biting drama in the Nov. 3 election of Lamorinda fire agency directors, with one race redefining the term "landslide." The closest ...

John Scheuerman was at some of the most dangerous scenes of the Second World War, aboard a destroyer. His boat landed at Normandy, the South of France, and was part of the Pacific War; but as ...

A variety of winter squash can be substituted for the mini pumpkins. Clockwise from top: Sugar Pie pumpkin, yellow mini pumpkin, Delicata or Honey Boat squash, orange Acorn squash (in center), Jack Be ...