While history often focuses on how women filled openings at factories as 'Rosie the Riveters' during World War II, more than 300,000 women served in the military between 1941 and 1945. In February ...

The pandemic taught us many things about ourselves, our world, and our priorities. During the lockdown, people slowed down, families were playing with their kids on the street in the middle of the day ...

Emma Wong, a ninth-grade student at Miramonte High School, won two of the four awards in the 2022 Poul Anderson writing contest. Wong won for her poem, "American or Not," as well as her short story, ...

Small tremors shake the earth and nearby classrooms as concrete crumbles, giving way to dirt and leaving Acalanes' very own $2.37 million dustbowl at the center of campus. The long anticipated remodel ...

When not at his job as a Senior Water Treatment Plant Operator for East Bay Municipal Utility District, Dwight Yassany supports a wide range of good causes without any fanfare, including Water For ...

The Rotary Club of Orinda recently held its annual Field Day, for 3rd-5th graders, at Del Rey Elementary School. Violet Bathgate, pictured above winning the 50 yard dash, took two first place and one ...

The American Scholastic Press Association (ASPA) awarded the Acalanes High School newspaper, Blueprint, its "Most Outstanding High School Newspaper for 2009," which Blueprint last received in 1999.

"See what love can do" was the message of the first sermon delivered at the Orinda Community Church in 1998 by Rev. Frank Baldwin, who will retire at the end of this month. Photos Ohlen Alexander ...

Seven piano students (Adelaide Chan, Antoine Luong, Audrey Luong, Gustav Singel, Lance Molina, Leo Chen, and Zoe Hao-Teplinsky) performed at the British Suzuki Gala on April 9. The concert was held at ...

The Central Contra Costa Sanitary District wants their customers to communicate with the Regional Water Quality Board, who is proposing nutrient regulations that will result in very large wastewater ...

Detective Berch Parker (center) smiles with Cathy Surges-Moscato, Community Service Officer (left) and Sergeant Howard Shiells (right) of the Lafayette Police Department. Photo Carol Yates Once a year ...

There is a lot of history left in a certain part of Lafayette. From Plaza Way to Golden Gate Way, Lafayette offers a quirky and charming mix of older cottages, an abandoned theater, very ...