Local touring company combines a love of gardens with English history
Sometimes an individual's life path can gain meaning when they embark on a new adventure where all the facets of their previous experiences seem to coalesce. Once her children reached college age, longtime Moraga resident, Contra Costa master gardener, and former parks ...By Sophie Braccini
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Campolindo high-schooler tracks toward Formula One career
Motor sports require a lot of space to play in, and enough distance from housing to soak up the ear-splitting roar of unmuffled big-bore engines. That much space in Lamorinda is impossible; but travel North along the two-lane freeway of Route 37 through the flat, ...By B. B. Kaye
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Keeping track of Lamorinda long jumpers
Three generations of track and field stars continue to make news in the Lamorinda area.
Monte Upshaw, the patriarch of the family, passed away in July and will be honored next year with ...By John T. Miller
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Film Clips
Happy holidays and a very prosperous 2018! The Orinda and Rheem theatres will be busy over the next week and we have something for everyone.
"The Greatest Showman" is now playing at The ...By Derek Zemrak
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Pressures on high school students
Junior year is infamous among students as ...By Sophia McManus
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Window opens for local filmmakers to compete in Lamorinda ShortDocs Film Fest
Lamorinda Arts Council will host its 3rd Annual ShortDocs Film Fest at the Lafayette Library and Learning Center at 3 p.m. Feb. 11. This documentary film festival provides local filmmakers an opportunity to create new work as well as showcase it at a community ...Submitted by Christy Mack
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A matter of balance: overcoming the fear of a fall
Starting Jan. 12, Lamorinda Village is offering the senior community an innovative eight-week fall prevention program: "A Matter of Balance." What makes this program different is that it addresses the fear of falling and aims at changing the perceptions as well as the ...By Sophie Braccini
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Families Without Borders trains future civic leaders
During a fundraising luncheon in her Moraga home last September Terri Khonsari told her supporters of her coming West Africa trip to Sierra Leone to visit her nonprofit to support students and select the next group of future leaders. A few weeks ago she returned, ...By Sophie Braccini
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'The Divine Order' offers unique look at a moment in history
Petra Volpe, a Swiss film director living in Berlin and New York, knew when she created the film "The Divine Order" about the Swiss women's freedom movement in the 1970s that it would resonate with people today. The story starts in a small rural part of this lovely ...By Sophie Braccini
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"A Strong Will" becomes Moraga family's mantra
The lives of Moraga residents Kathy and John Walton changed forever on March 2 when their 2-year-old middle child, Will, was diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer called Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis. The disease affects 1 in 200,000 children.
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TK and Kindergarten registration for 2018-19 school year
Registration for Lafayette students entering ...
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Local artist exhibits
The California College of the Arts Fall 2017 BFA Thesis Show will feature Moraga Illustrator Jaya Griggs, 2013 graduate of Campolindo High School. The show will be held at the McClintock Building,100 Carolina, San Francisco and is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 ...
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Community builds the all-access playground in Moraga
Carlene McCart looked with an appreciative eye at the 50 or so volunteers working hard on Dec. 9 to build the new Moraga all-access playground. The interim parks and recreation manager for Moraga comes from San Rafael where a similar installation was under her ...By Sophie Braccini
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Film Clips
The weather outside is getting chilly and there is the scent of holidays in the air. It is also a great time to go to the movies in Lamorinda. This is the busiest time of the year for the theatres. There are so many choices heading to the Rheem and Orinda theatres - ...By Derek Zemrak
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Acalanes High School students participate in 2017 Santa Cruz Forestry Challenge
Nine students from Acalanes High School participated recently in the 2017 Santa Cruz Forestry Challenge, one group of a total of 107 high school students from 14 schools from the Santa Cruz and Central California region. The event was held Nov. 15-18 at Redwood ...Submitted by Diane Dealey Neil
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Lamorinda Weekly, Moraga CA