College financial aid awards and scholarships - getting your best offer
Comparing student aid packages and figuring out the true affordability of any particular college can be both challenging and confusing. The essential first steps are to distinguish quality from quantity (more is not necessarily better) and to separate free money ...By Elizabeth LaScala
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Del Rey students make their own Wild Thing
Fifty years after the musical group Troggs sang about "Wild Thing," a group of Del Rey School students gave life to a Wild Thing of their own.
Their white welded metal sculpture is ...By Cathy Dausman
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Miramonte's Theater-in-Education makes an impact at Orinda Intermediate
Do transgender kids change their names?
Why did you put labels on each other?
Do you wish you had stood ...By Sora O'Doherty
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ŌLetÕs Go on a Letter HuntÕ childrenÕs book gets MomÕs Choice Silver Award
Lynn Champagne (aka Lynn McAuliffe) and Sue Tenerowicz are longtime business partners at Spell-It-Out Photos, a business that specializes in the creation of a range of personalized gifts using alphabet letter art photography. They heard that friends and teachers were ...By Sophie Braccini
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Review: 'The Salesman' is profound and universal
For the third time this year the International Film Showcase in Orinda will feature an Oscar-nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. Lamorinda has already been treated to two others: "A Man Called Ove" from Denmark, "Tanna" from Vanuatu - and now the very powerful ...By Sophie Braccini
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Miramonte students take Harvard by storm
Under the direction of Law and Society teacher Mike Rose, the Miramonte High School Model UN club scored big at the international competition held at Harvard University last month.
Three ...By John T. Miller
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Saint Mary's College puts on a show for the basketball nation
Saint Mary's showcased a rocking national pregame production, but the main event featuring the Feb. 11 basketball matchup between the Gaels and No. 1 Gonzaga fizzled.
"We never take ...By Nick Marnell
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Grateful Gatherings: Delivering love and homes to those in need
On a recent Saturday afternoon, a sweet 7-year-old girl who had spent months living in her family's car jumped on her new bed and squealed with pure joy. She told Moraga's Chris Flitter that she now has three favorite days: Christmas, her birthday and "today," the day ...By Diane Claytor
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Marching for Women's Rights
Last issue, the Lamorinda Weekly issued a call to readers to submit photos from the presidential inauguration and women's marches that occurred the weekend of Jan. 20-21. We didn't receive any inauguration photos, but here is a sampling of some of the photos we ...
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Film Clips
"Lion" may be the most overlooked movie of 2016. It recently received six Oscar Nominations, including Best Picture but not many people have seen this amazing film. "Lion" is a long-shot at winning the Oscar for Best Picture but I would say it is the front-runner to ...By Derek Zemrak
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Lynn's Top Five
Many of us are joined together holding our collective breath, waiting to see what exactly comes out of Washington over the next months, how those actions will frame our own planning, and what we'll do next. It's tempting to just sit by and wait --- you know, fritter ...By Lynn BallouBy Lynn Ballou
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Pacific Chamber Orchestra presents its latest concert, Winter Gems
The Pacific Chamber Orchestra is inviting all true fans of musical discovery to a voyage through space, time and form for its winter concert.
As Maestro Lawrence Kohl explains it, ...By Sophie Braccini
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Town Hall's 'Angels in America' wins Best Director, Best Actor awards
Town Hall Theatre of Lafayette was honored with two Shellie Awards for its 2016 production of Tony Kushner's cutting- edge drama "Angels in America: Perestroika." Town Hall's former artistic director Joel Roster received the Best Director award for his role in ...Submitted by Linda Drucker
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MBA Opening Day Parade Scheduled for Feb. 25
Play Ball! It's that time of year again, as the Moraga Baseball Association Opening Day Parade will usher in the 2017 season with over 200 players and coaches, vintage cars, Moraga Fire and Police representatives, Campolindo Cheerleaders, Boys Scout Color Guard and ...Submitted by Lauren Fritch
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Campo Freshman a Fresh Face on NYC Fashion Runway
While many of Angelina Louie's peers wore heels to their middle school promotion, she chose Converse sneakers.
Angelina is still two years away from her high school prom and is not yet ...By Cathy Dausman
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