Moraga News

Firefighters were able to quickly extinguish a fire that started in a portable classroom at Del Rey Elementary School in Orinda this morning, limiting damage to one classroom, Moraga-Orinda Fire District Marshal Michael Mentink said.

Two men were arrested over the weekend after they tried to use a stolen credit card at a supermarket, which led to the discovery of a cache of stolen IDs and credit cards, police said.

Last month my husband and I made another trip to The Dalles, Ore., and collected more stories from my 101-year-old mother, Gilia Peruzzo Jacuzzi.

Sure, the holidays aren't quite as imposing on this side of Thanksgiving, but trust us, we'll all soon be up to our ears in wrapping paper, recipes and obligations.

ON HIS WAY out the door, the chief of the Moraga-Orinda Fire District, who has become a symbol for pension excesses, has written a memo that seems aimed at forestalling a public debate on the future of the controversial two-city agency.

Scott Tandy of Moraga was today named interim chief administrative officer for Butte County, after a closed door session of the Board of Supervisors.

Combine a burst housing bubble with poor investment returns and a system that was unsustainable to begin with and you have the public pension system in California as reported by Bruce Bialosky at Town Hall.

The City Council is scheduled to meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, in the council chamber of the Farrel A. Stewart Civic Center, 1950 Parkside Drive.

As past president of the Orinda Association and having served on the Orinda Fire Protection and Emergency Services Advisory Committee in the mid-1990s, I feel compelled to respond to Janet Maiorana's statement in a recent letter to the editor regarding LAFCO.

Oakland artist Ise Lyfe encourages a group of 5th grade boys like Anthony Jackson at Prescott Elementary School in Oakland, Calif.

With interest rates paid on bank deposits and money-market mutual funds dragging bottom, ultra-conservative investors are asking where they can get more bang for their buck.

Unofficial election results show voters strongly supported an extension of a parcel tax in the Acalanes Union High School District.

For the past two mornings, when I have gone to the garage and opened the door, I've found an obstacle course from things that have been knocked down off shelves.

The following excerpts were taken from the Moraga police log: Tuesday, oct. 13 vandalism - A resident on Ascot Drive had her rental car vandalized.

WE'RE GOING TO try something different today. First, close your eyes. Next, empty your head of all thought.

Your current view of the Rancho Laguna II housing project probably depends on what you think your actual view of the development will be.

Dear Straight Talk: I'm new at my high school and have fallen in with a popular crowd, so that's good.

All the negotiations on water that were fit to print killed some trees over the weekend.

The news was nothing Lamorinda school officials hadn't given before, but that didn't make it any less depressing.

Nina LaCour is no stranger to books. When she was 14, the Moraga native began working at a bookstore, the ideal atmosphere to cultivate an appreciation of the written word and her own literary aspirations.