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Environmental 'Green Screen' Will Protect Springhill Elementary Students
It took a village, or rather a trifecta of interested parties, to transform a chain link fence at Springhill Elementary school to a lush green hedge: a scout in search of an eagle project, a Green Team mom and the school superintendent.
 By Cathy Tyson
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Students are Primed, but are Local Roads Ready for School to Start?
With school starting in just a couple of weeks, some local residents fear a "Commuter-geddon'"due to several high-profile Lamorinda road projects.
As the voters passed the tax measures, ...By Nick Marnell
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Growing up Swimmingly in Lamorinda
Imagine a giant block party, only instead of residential lawns, participants lounge in tents pitched poolside. Many parents and swimmers alike plunge wholeheartedly into Lamorinda's recreational swim culture when their children reach preschool and leave only r ...By Cathy Dausman
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Advice for Incoming Seniors: Don't Kick Back and Relax This Year
Most college-bound students wish that they could finish their most difficult courses as juniors and ease up a bit when they enter their senior year. After all, they are already applying to colleges and, although they might be prepared to take the highest level math, ...By Elizabeth LaScala Ph.D.
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Lamorinda's Longtime Sub Says Goodbye
Monica Foley is getting ready for the summer, a peaceful moment in a substitute teacher's life when she knows that no one will call her for the next three months to impromptu replace any kindergarten to eighth-grade teacher in Lamorinda. But this year, the youthful ...By Sophie Braccini
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OUSD to Save a Bundle on Refinancing School Bonds
When Dr. Carolyn Seaton made her first appearance at an Orinda City Council meeting, the new Orinda Union School District superintendent had some good news to share: the district was saving money.
By Sora O'Doherty
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Solar Installations Sprouting at Lamorinda Schools
Looking like overgrown carports, large solar panel arrays are cropping up on all of Lamorinda's high school campuses this summer, and on all of the lower schools in Orinda as well.
They ...By Victor Ryerson
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Orinda Academy Sends Off its Graduating Class of 2016
The Orinda Academy said goodbye to 22 graduates earlier this month. The graduates are heading off to colleges such as Cornell, CSU Chico, Liberty University, California Poly Pomona, California Maritime Academy, Saint Mary's, University of Arizona, Whitman College, Penn ...
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La Senorita has Half a Century of Teaching Spanish at Campolindo
The year was 1963 or mil, novecientos sesenta y tres in Spanish, when Lola Danielli arrived at Campolindo High School fresh out of U.C. Berkeley. The Spanish teacher from the previous year was not returning.
By Cathy Dausman
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College Communications Programs Offer More Than Just Idle Talk
Careers in digital, print and broadcast journalism, advertising and public relations are among the most desired by college students. However, early success in these fields requires students to build their resumes while they pursue their degrees.
 By Elizabeth LaScala Ph.D.
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Graduation 2016
ACALANES HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR AWARDS, 2016
National Merit Finalists
Cole Fang-Horvath
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Lamorinda Weekly, Moraga CA