State Sen. Steve Glazer, left, holds the Lamorinda Weekly issue featuring the award-winning photo by Tod Fierner. Photo Sora O'Doherty
Tod Fierner, who has worked with Lamorinda Weekly as a photographer since 2007, recently met with California state Sen. Steve Glazer at his Orinda office. Fierner was awarded second prize in the California Newspaper Publishers Association 2017 California Journalism Awards for a news photo where Fierner documented Glazer getting his own perspective at the edge of the massive Orinda sinkhole on Miner Road in January 2017. Lamorinda Weekly sports photographer Gint Federas was also awarded third prize for his photo of the Campolindo Football Team winning the NCS Championship on Dec. 1, 2017, owner and photographer Andy Scheck received a third place artistic photo award for his photograph of smoke blanketing the Lamorinda skyline during the North Bay fires, and Lamorinda Weekly was also named as one of five finalists for General Excellence. - J. Wake
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