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Community-rooted journalism for the three hillside towns of Lamorinda, covering local schools, civic leadership, wildfire preparedness, and neighborhood traditions.
Lamorinda Post (lamorindapost.com) is an independent digital local newspaper founded in 2026 as part of the Bay Area News Network, serving Orinda, Lafayette, and Moraga in Contra Costa County, California (94549, 94563, 94556). It is editorially and corporately independent of Lamorinda Weekly and East Bay Times.
Contra Costa County, California
Hundreds of UC Berkeley students packed Upper Sproul Plaza and the Mario Savio Steps on Friday for Votechella, a free afternoon concert hosted by ASUC SUPERB and the ASUC External Affairs Vice President office featuring Kumo 99 and The Hellp ahead of in-person voting opening Oct. 31 in Eshleman Hall.
Researchers Jian-Hua Mao, Jamie Inman, and Hang Chang at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed Sparse CBC, an open-source machine learning model that analyzes routine Complete Blood Count (CBC) tests to detect radiation doses as low as 0.05 gray up to 150 days after exposure.
One day after the first-year Saint Mary’s College men’s swim team earned the first dual-meet victory in program history (146–140 over UC Santa Cruz), the Gaels traveled to Berkeley’s Spieker Pool on Saturday, falling to Cal 172–68 on the women’s side and 158–87 on the men’s side.
Tiered FSC-cedar seating decks, solar Wi-Fi 7 study tables, and a native bioretention courtyard at 3491 Mt. Diablo Boulevard expand open-air civic learning.
Elevated 140-foot heart-redwood footbridge, native sword-fern and buckeye plantings, and stone trail steps at 70 Orinda Way protect seasonal tributaries of San Pablo Creek.
Buffered 1.1-mile asphalt bikeway, Mount Diablo stone curb walls, and rapid-flashing pedestrian crossings at 1928 Saint Mary’s Road link campus and town.
Cedar acoustic performance pergola, zero-emission boat charging slips, and accessible lakeside picnic tables at 3849 Mt. Diablo Boulevard enhance Lamorinda’s crown jewel.
Architectural steel bleacher awnings, organic cork-and-zeolite turf topdressing, and a solar hydration station at 101 Wilder Road enhance youth soccer and lacrosse.
