Wednesday, December 08, 2010
No Escape from Lafayette - Shop Locally
Jay Lifson, Executive Director of the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce, front and center along with a supporting cast is trying to encourage post-Thanksgiving shoppers from leaving town to shop elsewhere. "The Friendly Chamber" wants to encourage everyone to spend their ...
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| Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Lynn's Top Five 2010 Year-End Tax Planning - A Time for New Strategies
You know the old adage: what you don't know ...By Lynn Ballou, EA, CFP
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| Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Students' Discretionary Money Supports the Local Economy
Matt Carroll is a generous man. The General ...By Sophie Braccini
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| Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Moraga Town Council Says Okay to Dollar Tree Store
Despite determined opposition from a large ...By Sopie Braccini
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| Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Does Tilt Come with the Territory?
It took 60 years for Pam and Mike DeLange's Orinda home to tilt, but less than four weeks to set it right. The process, underpinning, repairs foundations and stabilizes houses, buildings and other structures. Using steel piers and a ...By Lou Fancher
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| Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Challenging Conditions for Lamorinda Grapes
As the French prepare to release their 2010 Beaujolais Nouveau on November 18th, Lamorinda winemakers are releasing their own 2010 production. But it has been a very difficult year for local vineyards and wineries.
 By Sophie Braccini
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| Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Local Women Taking Charge of Their Lives
"The hardest lesson I learned is that I'm the one in charge of my life," said Leilah Douglah, of Douglah Design, "Others can help, but you have to take charge and go with it." The Women's Empowerment Forum was a panel discussion organized by the Lafayette Chamber of ...By Sophie Braccini
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| Wednesday, October 27, 2010
What's Up on Brown?
"This is not just Brown Avenue, it's funky town!" exclaimed Jay Lifson, Executive Director of the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce, at a recent Chamber mixer on Brown Ave. Recently new businesses have moved to the strip between Deer Hill Rd. and Mount Diablo Blvd., and ...By Sophie Braccini
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| Wednesday, October 13, 2010
The Real Estate Quarter in Review
The third quarter of 2010 continued to show significant activity on the residential side of Lamorinda real estate.
Per Contra Costa Association of Realtors statistics reported from July ...By Conrad Bassett, CRP, GMS
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| Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Social Media for Small Businesses
Last month the Lafayette and Orinda Chambers of Commerce sponsored lectures on new electronic ways for small businesses to reach their customers. Orinda offered a 'brown bag lunch' presentation on blogging with Marissa Berger, and Lafayette invited the community to a ...By Sophie Braccini
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| Wednesday, September 29, 2010
LYNN'S TOP FIVE - FINANCIAL PLANNING DAYS - Great planning help -- for free!
It is my great honor to have been appointed by the CFP(r) Board in Washington D.C. to be one of seven CFP(r) Ambassadors serving across the country. A large part of my new role involves communicating local financial planning opportunities of great benefit for Bay Area ...By Lynn Ballou, EA, CFP(r)
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| Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Table 24 Coming to Orinda
The current restaurant buzz in Orinda is the approaching opening of Table 24 at Theater Square. If your kids have neglected to mention it, the restaurant is on Facebook and already boasts more than 200 friends of co-owners Victor Ivry and Michael Karp.
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| Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Captain Vineyards - A New Commercial Winemaker in Lamorinda
As Susan and Sal Captain sit in their Moraga home overlooking their vineyard set against the backdrop of acres of open space, they open a bottle of one of their newly-labeled Captain Vineyards Petite Syrah, and finally relax after a long day of work among the vine ...By Sophie Braccini
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| Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Gardening with Cynthia Brian: HARVEST GOLD
For our September wedding, my husband and I received numerous household gifts in avocado green and harvest gold. In 1975 those were the interior design choices de rigeur. I was not an orange, yellow, or green girl and, although grateful for the kind thoughts, didn't ...By Cynthia Brian
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| Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Lynn's TOP FIVE - Tips for Savvy Home Sellers
At breakfast the other day with my good friend and colleague, Jim Ellis, Realtor with Coldwell Banker in Orinda, I wondered out loud why so many properties seem to languish on the market in Lamorinda while others are snapped up quickly. His many words of wisdom were ...By Lynn Ballou, EA, CFP(r)
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