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| Mayor Cam Burks will continue to serve on the city council after he steps down as mayor April 20.
Photo Pippa Fisher |
| Time to hit the trails - it's a springtime challenge! |
| By Pippa Fisher |
| It's spring in Lamorinda and the three Parks and Recreation Departments of Moraga, Orinda and Lafayette want nothing more than to see residents out enjoying the area's beautiful trails. For ...
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| Egg hunters at the Moraga Commons Park last Saturday
Photo Andy Scheck |
| Sunny skies for Spring Egg Hunt |
| By Vera Kochan |
A big topic among the adults at the April 13 Spring Egg Hunt was the weather. Everyone remembered last year's rainy event and were grateful for the pause in the current rainy season.
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| Mayor Cam Burks will continue to serve on the city council after he steps down as mayor April 20.
Photo Pippa Fisher |
| Cam Burks steps down as Lafayette mayor |
| By Pippa Fisher |
| Mayor Cam Burks is stepping down from the mayoral role as of April 20. He will continue to serve out his term on the council.
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| The secrets to success of Lamorinda water polo |
| By Jon Kingdon |
| On Saturday, April 6, the No. 1 ranked USC women's water polo team came to Berkeley and defeated the No. 5 ranked California Golden Bears by a score of 8-3. Each team had three Lamorinda players on their ...read |
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| Ed McAlpine and Anne Chambers in their Moraga garden. Photo Sophie Braccini |
| When native plants share space with a mini-farm |
| By Sophie Braccini |
| Anne Chambers and her husband, Ed McAlpine, view the utility of a garden with different eyes. For Chambers it is a place where the local flora is nurtured for the pleasure of the eyes and to reminisce the many ...read |
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Bean Counters 3, Visionaries 2
By a 3 to 2 vote last week the Moraga Town Council embarrassed the entire community and brought shame on local government by refusing to contribute a single dime to the John Muir Land Trust campaign to acquire the Painted Rock property.
JMLT has raised nearly $1.75 million-all
private donations-toward a $2 million
goal to purchase the 84-acre property
for inclusion as the anchor of a
500-plus acre public hiking and nature
preserve near the Rheem Shopping Center.
JMLT was hoping the Town would
contribute to partially close the
funding gap-MUCH
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"Time is Running out"
Dear Lamorinda Neighbors
A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to
secure a world-class outdoor recreation
site in our neighborhood is at our
doorstep, but time is running out. The
John Muir Land Trust has been offered
the 84-acre Painted Rock parcel at the
corner of Rheem Blvd and Moraga Road for
purchase. This site has panoramic views
of Mt Diablo and the East Bay with
abundant wildlife and spectacular
wildflowers; if acquired, ...
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| 5G - It's coming, like it or not |
| By Pippa Fisher |
| The next generation of wireless is arriving in California and there is very little local government can do about it, thanks to Federal Communication Commission orders and federal laws that place procedural and ...read |
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| Lafayette Earth Day Festival focuses on sustainable youth |
| By Pippa Fisher |
| The 14th Annual Earth Day Festival will be taking place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, April 28 along Golden Gate Way behind the Lafayette Library and Learning Center. This year's theme is "Taking Action.read |
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| Burton Valley student pushes school to go green this Earth Day |
| By Pippa Fisher |
| Burton Valley Elementary School is ditching the use of plastic utensils in the lunchroom starting April 22, appropriately enough on Earth Day. As impactful as that is, it is all the more remarkable for being ...read |
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April 17, 2019Issue and deadline schedule |
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| Campo's Academic Decathlon team takes fifth at state finals |
| By John T. Miller |
| The Campolindo Academic Decathlon team won first place in their regional competition for the ninth year in a row, qualifying for the state finals where they finished fifth against 28 other schools in their ...read |
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| A day filled with promise for 200 middle school girls |
| Submitted by Lynda Leonard |
| The morning began with speaker Danielle Feinberg, the director of photography for lighting on Disney-Pixar's Academy Award-winning films "WALL E," "Brave," and "Coco" who spoke to 200 middle school girls about ...read |
| School Calendar |
Acalanes Union High School District
Board Room AUHSD Office
1212 Pleasant Hill Rd, Lafayette |
| Wednesday,
April 17, at 7:30pm |
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Lafayette School District
LAFSD Office
3477 School Street, Lafayette |
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Wednesday, May 22, at 7pm |
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Moraga School District
Joaquin Moraga Intermediate School Auditorium 1010 Camino Pablo, Moraga |
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Tuesday, May 14, at 7:30pm |
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Orinda Union School District
OUSD Office 8 Altarinda Road, Orinda |
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May 13, at 6pm |
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Taste of Lafayette - Lafayette’s
Favorite Dinner Party! from 5:30 to
8 p.m. on May 14 in downtown
Lafayette. The Taste of Lafayette
stroll begins when ticket holders
head out at their own
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15th Annual JF Kapnek 5/K Fun Run at
9 a.m. on May 5 at Miramonte High
School. Along with a 5K run and a 1K
children’s run or walk, event
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Town Hall Theatre Company presents
“Uncanny Valley” - Town Hall
Theatre’s staged reading series In
the Wings is a one-night only
reading of Uncanny Valley, a
riveting new play about artificial
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| Habitat Gardening at Camino Pablo Elementary |
| By Jenn Freedman |
| As commercial and residential developments spread into wilderness areas, they infringe on the habitats that would otherwise supply the food, water, and shelter that wildlife species need to survive. Habitat ...read |
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| Buy Nothing groups offer random acts of kindness |
| By Diane Claytor |
| An unused designer wallet, discovered in the back of a drawer, was handed over - for free - to a mom whose college-age daughter had been coveting one, but couldn't afford it. A PBK rocking horse, well-loved by ...read |
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The town of Moraga and Mayor Roger Wykle declared April 10 as "2018-2019 Campolindo Boys ...
Lamorinda Weekly, Moraga CA