Posts Tagged ‘Moraga’
Wildland Training Burn In Moraga Saturday – No Need To Dial Up 911! Or Us!
Firefighters from several agencies will conduct live-fire training June 29th between 9am and 5pm at Painted Rock. Area residents may see and smell smoke. This is NOT a wildland fire. Please do NOT call 911! First local to call about smoke over MoTown is going to get hit with a soggy biscotti!
Read MoreMorning Crash On Moraga Road Knocks Out Power, Prompts Road Closures Thursday
Police shut down Moraga Road at Ascot Drive Thursday morning after a rollover crash damaged a pole, knocked out power to the area briefly and left the driver with moderate injuries. Tom Grayson, in the area at the time, said the driver of a Honda Accord lost control of the car and sped up a…
Read MoreFormer Moraga Town Council Member Jeanette Fritzky Dead At 63
Jeanette Fritzky, who stepped down from the Moraga Town Council in August as she fought lung cancer, died Friday after her battle with the disease. She was 63. In July, following her diagnosis, Fritzky wrote in a letter she posted on the town’s website: “I find that I no longer have the energy, will or…
Read MoreAlameda County Fire, Moraga-Orinda Crew Render Honors In Whiskeytown
Ed: This post and series of photos comes to us from Alameda County Fire. If you recognize any of the locals, let us know. The Flag still carries a lot of meaning for many of us – even when it’s flying in the pitch black and over charred and smoking ground: Tonight at the Carr…
Read MoreMoragan Arrested For Auto Burglary – In Emeryville
A 23-year-old Moraga man is in custody Tuesday after Emeryville police officers reportedly found him in the passenger seat of a truck parked outside the Oliver Loft Condominiums in their city – a truck that did not belong to him. Officers arrested Alex Mills on Monday after noticing the cab of the truck had been…
Read MoreLone Gunman Robs Moraga Safeway Thursday
Moraga police are investigating an armed robbery at the Moraga Safeway store on Moraga Way Thursday, asking for anyone who may have witnessed the crime to contact their agency with that information. Police said a lone, masked gunman entered the store at approximately 7:55 p.m., pointed a gun at a clerk and demanded money. The…
Read MoreBrothers Found Dead Inside Moraga House Trailer Monday
Two men found dead in a trailer parked at the Ranch House property at Moraga Way and School Street Monday were identified by coroner’s deputies Wednesday as brothers Gary Armstrong, 67, and Richard Armstrong, 65. Moraga police said there were no signs of a struggle, no trauma was observed on either person nor has any…
Read MoreLamorinda Manhunt Called Off After Laptop Snatch At St. Mary’s College Wednesday
Lamorinda police – with help from outside agencies – threw up a perimeter in the area of Moraga Way and Orchard Road after three suspects sped away officers after a strong-arm laptop theft at St. Mary’s College in Moraga Wednesday. The suspects, driving an older model black Jeep, sped from the college shortly after the…
Read MoreMoraga’s Canyon Bridge Re-Opens – One Lane Of It, Anyway – And It’s Getting A Workout
Moragans have been beset by traffic issues in recent months and some were starting to feel a little more cut off from the rest of the world than they would have liked. We won’t mention the Unmentionable Hole as it has been successfully filled in and while engineers and construction people are still working on…
Read MoreSo Long, Chuck – You Were A Great Depression
Old Timers in Moraga may remember life Before Chuck, before the rains came. Traffic moved easily along Rheem Boulevard, neighbors waving jauntily to one another, some of them even venturing into the shopping center to buy something from time to time. And then, whammo. After a biblical eight days of solid precipitation the ground near…
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