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Lafayette, California is located in Contra Costa County. Zip codes in Lafayette, CA include 94549, and 94596. The median home price in Lafayette is $1,218,000 which is roughly $534/per square foot. More Lafayette information.

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Monday | Danville Weekly

Have coffee with the Assistance League

Assistance League of Diablo Valley is a nonprofit volunteer organization dedicated to improving lives in the community through hands-on programs.

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Monday Jun 17 | Inside Bay Area

Restaurant news: Va de Vi chef opens Chalkboard

Va de bye: If you wondered what had become of Shane McAnelly, the Oakley native who was exec chef at Walnut Creek's much loved Va de Vi up until December, here's an update.

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Fri Jun 14, 2013

Halfway To Concord

20 top improvements for Downtown Concord

With Concord's Downtown Ad Hoc Steering Committee , chaired by Councilman Rone Leone in full swing, many suggestions have been made for the transformation of the area between BART, Todos Santos, and the surrounding areas in the coming years.

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Thu Jun 13, 2013

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5-year-old makes it short and sweet, cuts hair for charity

Though she hadn't quite achieved Rapunzel-length tresses, Zoey Wasserman had an impressive head of hair.

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Inside Bay Area

Lamorinda police reports -- If you lock up the car, you might as well roll up the windows

The vehicle was parked in the 300 block of Deerfield Drive. vandalism: Someone damaged the ignition to a vehicle parked in the 100 block of Miramonte Drive in a possible attempt to steal it.

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Contra Costa Times

Lafayette taking a hard look at fire service

A citizen task force will tackle how to improve fire and emergency services in the city in the wake of the rejection last month of a plan to finance a new joint fire station on the Lafayette-Orinda border.

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SFGate

Lafayette estate boasts marble finishes, brick exterior

The 14-room home has a two garages that can house five cars and a large parking pad.

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Contra Costa Times

Acalanes High School (Lafayette) 2013 Seniors Honors

Maddie Myall has received a scholarship from the UCLA Music Department as well as an a UCLA Scholarhip Recognition Award for distinguished academic achievement Kelly Collins has received two awards from Westmont College; the Westmont College President's Scholarship and the Alyssa Smelly Memorial Cross Country Track and Field Scholarship Matthew ... (more)

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Contra Costa Times

Lafayette: Traffic snarled after car hauler catches fire on Highway 24

The truck's driver escaped without injuries from the 4:49 a.m. blaze just east of the Central Lafayette exit, according to the California Highway Patrol.

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Wed Jun 12, 2013

Contra Costa Times

'Green burial' caskets dovetail with Pleasant Hill woodworker's core beliefs

The Pleasant Hill carpenter's wood scraps do not go to waste. Shavings end up as mulch or in a chicken coop.

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Tue Jun 11, 2013

Inside Bay Area

EBMUD approves big water rate increase

East Bay Municipal Utility District customers will be hit with one of the agency's largest water rate increases in history -- 20 percent in two steps over the next year, the EBMUD board decided Tuesday.

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Thu Jun 06, 2013

NBC Bay Area

Where Can You Afford to Live in the Bay Area? Find Out

Rental market sticker shock: Average price for a studio in San Francisco? $1,871 These are tough times for apartment hunters, especially when deciding where to live by averaging financing alone.

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Contra Costa Times

Hunting for Lafayette's past at historical society's Father's Day treasure hunt

Wake up your inner Sherlock -- the Lafayette Historical Society wants you to come to their home stamping grounds in the city's downtown on June 15-16 to search for clues.

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Rediff.com

Professor uses nanotechnology to build affordable water filter

Prof T Pradeep talks about the nano material he and his associates have fabricated and how it can be used in an affordable water filter in an interview with Rediff.com 's Shobha Warrier.

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Wed Jun 05, 2013

Contra Costa Times

School Notes: High school graduations over the next week

The high school graduation season is upon us, with the Las Lomas ceremony Friday night from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the school's football stadium, 1460 S. Main St., and Northgate High School's commencement being held Wednesday, June 12 at the Sleep Train Pavilion in Concord.

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Tue Jun 04, 2013

Contra Costa Times

Hercules utility tax hike measure leading in early election returns

Voters Tuesday were deciding the fate of a tax hike measure to tackle the city's financial crisis in the lone election in Contra Costa County.

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Contra Costa Times

Review: Concord's Lucille's Smokehouse Bar.B.Que fires up appetites

It's a rare day when Bay Area News Group decides to review a chain restaurant. But we heard enough buzz from readers about Lucille's Smokehouse Bar-B-Que in Concord to make an exception.

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Mon Jun 03, 2013

BlogHer

Blue Gingko San Francisco

What's funner than playing with your food?? Blue Gingko feeds our imagination as well as our bellies with their innovative sushi rolls.

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San Jose Mercury News

Bay Area restaurant news: Alameda's American Oak reopens, Lafayette hosts the martini fest

Phoenix rising: Any restaurant closure is sad, but it's heartbreaking when it's a fire that shutters the doors.

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Contra Costa Times

Author Mac Barnett comes to Lafayette; you can thank a Girl Scout troop for that

Turns out when the fifth-grade Junior Girl Scouts of Lafayette's Troop 33039 aren't selling cookies, they're searching for bronze.

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