Team Wanken, better known perhaps as Moraga residents Dennis and Eleni Wanken, have announced their candidacy for the Moraga Town Council.
With public sentiment running hot against local governments playing fast and loose with public money, Orinda's City Council discusses the benefits of granting more public scrutiny of its actions.
A report on Moraga's fiscal state - and ways to improve it - was the subject of an into-the-wee-hours meeting by the Moraga Town Council.
Back in the day, a squadron of aircraft thundered overhead on a daily basis. Does anyone remember Lamorinda's Air Force? Or what made them so dadgum unique?
We have elections coming in November and the people who will govern us are getting ready for their respective races. Lamorinda Patch will be talking with them all, but what would you want to ask them?
Owners of a literature-themed cafe at the Lafayette Library and Learning Center are asking the City Council for a little help to keep the business viable.
Monday night's meeting of the Lafayette City Council smooths out some bumps in the Burton Ridge Trail Connector project.
Moraga's Town Council will hear how residents feel they are doing and in what direction the town should go when they meet to evaluate feedback from a series of focus groups and surveys at their meeting Wednesday night.
Quiet Orinda supporters were on hand at the Orinda Farmers' Market today and brought their Haaga with them. Residents, apparently, liked what they saw - and didn't hear.
Lafayette sets out to repair one old country road and slow people down on another.
To the list of tilting, decrepit and and potentially hazardous structures abandoned by their owners in Lamorinda we add 12 Ruth Court, which looks like it could blow over with the next wind gust.
There are two seats available on the Lafayette City Council and who gets them will be determined in the Nov. 2 General Election. Who wants them? Here you go.
Cries of protest by some Lamorindans over neighborhood use of leaf blowers has attracted attention - and a possible solution - from Germany.
A fledgling organization met Monday night to find a way to preserve land around Contra Costa County's oldest standing landmark.
Another candidate emerged Friday as the deadline to file candidacy papers for one of two open seats on the Moraga Town Council came and went.
Phil Vince left Moraga for Martinez and Mike Segrest appears headed for a new job elsewhere - and Moraga is advertising for someone to manage it. Do you fit the bill?
Ask ten people what's good art and what's bad and you'll get ten different answers, and maybe a heated argument. That's just what seems to shaping up here as Lamorinda Patch invites reader comment on our public art scene.
Lamorinda Patch has felt the heat of opposition to a proposal bringing a city charter to Lafayette, and so did the City Council Monday night.
The fight over the future look and feel of Lamorinda's oldest landmark is taking place as we speak.
The Lafayette City Council will meet next week to consider adoption of charter city status as well as whether or not the phrase "In God We Trust" has a place in city offices.
A city survey shows that Lafayette residents are satisfied with life in their town, for the most part, but there's also a hint of secession in the numbers.
Just a few days left to tell Moraga's civic leaders what you think is wrong - and right - with the town.
Belvedere, Beverly Hills, Carmel, Del Mar, Malibu, Santa Monica, Mill Valley, Berkeley and Palo Alto have already banned leaf blowers - will Sebastopol, Sonoma, and Orinda be far behind?
Parades, cute kids, antique cars - and lots of American flags. It's shaping up to be a rocking Fourth of July in Lamorinda.
Solar Energy Association honors City of Lafayette for its use of photovoltaic technology.
Is Orinda witnessing the birth of a national movement or another example of the Nanny State mentality? Time will tell, but something is happening in our backyard...
A Moraga man and an East Bay grocery outlet are hoping to do what so many Moragans seem to want - create new businesses in the Rheem Valley Center locals can use and support.
Opening salvos are being fired in a war of words over a proposal to bring a high-rise condo complex to downtown Orinda. And the opposition is using technology to make sure it's heard.
Moraga has launched a search for a new Town Manager to replace Mike Segrest and the timing appears good as Segrest is talking with South Lake Tahoe.
The hunt for a town manager to replace Mike Segrest tops the agenda Wednesday, but Moraga's Town Council will also have plenty more on its plate.
The fight over a Second Amendment issue in California has grown so rancorous both camps are now packing heat. And an initial skirmish was waged recently in Lafayette with the final decision expected this week.