Moraga News

Moraga principal Bill Walters and other school district employees won't face criminal charges for failing to report cases of sexual abuse more than a decade ago, because the statute of limitations has run out, the police chief said Thursday.

Like modern day warriors, the Orinda-Moraga-Lafayette branch of the American Association of University Women is using its collective intellectual brawn to smash barriers and myth-bust its way to extinction.

Lafayette police are searching for a man they said entered the Lafayette Bank of America branch at 3530 Mt.

In Walnut Creek, Calif., on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, Kristen Cunnane's year book photo of teacher Daniel Witters, who killed himself in 1996 as police began investigating numerous molestation allegations.

A How was it for you? Our Memorial Day weekend was a blessed event, with some downtime to rest and refit and fix some overworked tech gear .

Moraga will have a balanced budget next year, but town leaders are scrutinizing certain expenses, including one they say could give residents "expectations" about hotly contested Rancho Laguna Park and another that would help pay for senior transportation.

Moraga police Sgt. Brian South, Officer Smith, Vicki Vansickle and Lindsay Pirkle , were all part of the May 11 benefit at the New Rheem Theatre to raise money to support the Northern California Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics.

That was just some of the good news staffers shared Monday during a look at next year's financials, which show the city finishing the fiscal year within budget.

A Calling on some appropriate musical backup from Adele on this one as we address a couple of yarns that keep bumping around Lamorinda, with no one yet willing to confirm them or put them to rest.

A rare solar eclipse is seen from Tokyo on Monday morning. People across the globe planned viewing parties to watch the event.

After the peak of the solar eclipse, the crescent sun shines through leaves of a tree, projecting onto a wall.

At a recent Commonwealth Club lecture at the Lafayette Library, the NBC political analyst and author of "Not So Golden After All: The Rise and Fall of California" cast a dark, ominous cloud over the land.

"E for Escape," a unique collection of whimsical works of art by a small group of five artists -- painters Jeanette Baird, Susan Erickson, Judy Feins, and JoAnn Lieberman and ceramicist and sculptor David Vanderjagt -- will be on display at the Lafayette Gallery through June 2 at the gallery, 50 Lafayette Circle, Lafayette.

A Customers at a Lafayette Starbucks had a front row seat to one of life's little dramas Wednesday as their morning routine was broken by a commotion and sounds of yelling outside the establishment -- followed by the sight of a rather large, out of breath man in a distinctive black trench coat and "rainbow colored" stocking cap scurrying inside and ... (more)

Customers at a Lafayette Starbucks had a front row seat to one of life's little dramas Wednesday.

A Sigh. This almost hurts too much to write about. If you read us you know about our campaign to inform caregivers and relatives and seniors about a particularly insidious scam aimed at the elderly.

A On Friday, at approximately 7:40 a.m., a Moraga police officer pulled over a 35 year-old local woman travelling south on Moraga Rd.

Moraga officials have ended off-leash hours at a popular community park four months after a resident sued, alleging town leaders never fully vetted the environmental impacts of creating a fenced-in dog park.

A Measure A, the latest parcel tax measure seeking public funding for Moraga's schools, failed to achieve the two-thirds majority it needed to pass, a spokesman for the Contra Costa County Elections Division said Thursday.

A He's as much a part of our Western landscape as the bison and the Grizzly Bear , but the rattlesnake has proven to be a whole lot more resilient.