Archive for September, 2008
Children’s Hospital benefit Saturday
Alameda’s event season continues with the 12th annual Moonlight Monte Carlo, a benefit for Children’s Hospital & Research Center in Oakland. It’s this Saturday, October 4 from 5:30 p.m. to midnight at the Albert H. DeWitt Officers’ Club, 641 W. Redline Ave. on the base.
Tickets for the black tie-optional event, which will include dancing, a [...]
Point cleanup battles continue
The citizen board in charge of overseeing the cleanup of Alameda Point has a few bones to pick with the Navy over its proposed plan for clearing the old landfill in the northwest corner of the old base.
Okay. Let’s see if we can get this straight.
The Restoration Advisory Board and the City Council (sitting as [...]
Stark opposes bailout bill
(Ed. note: With updated adds)
In case you missed it (as if!), the House of Representatives narrowly voted down a $700 billion package to bail out the nation’s financial system, the Associated Press is reporting. Our man in Washington, Pete Stark, voted against the bill. Here’s what he had to say:
“Madam Speaker, I rise today to [...]
Monday profile: Joyce Craig
Joyce Craig has a lot of history with Haight School. Not only has she taught at the school for 23 years, but she was a student there too. And she’s not the only one: Both her mother and her grandmother went to Haight. “I have pretty strong roots here,” said Craig, who grew up around [...]
State halts apple moth appeal
There’s a fresh twist in the ongoing saga of the light brown apple moth and plans to spray much of the Bay Area, including Alameda, with a synthetic pheromone to eradicate it. Apparently, the state has decided not to pursue an appeal in at least one of the two South Bay court cases won by [...]
Your weekend: Bat Boy!
We confess, we have long been fans of the black-and-white cult tab Weekly World News. True, the tab didn’t give us the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and it doesn’t fill a bottomless need for photos of cellulite-plagued starlets in bikinis. But it did present a unique gift to the pop culture world: Bat Boy.
Five years after [...]
Sisters
Alameda’s got an agreement on the table that it’s slated to sign on Wednesday – an agreement to become a sister city to Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China. A delegation from the prosperous city on the southern bank of the Yangtze River is coming to town on Wednesday to sign the agreement and to celebrate China’s [...]
Spraying our schools
As regular readers of this blog know, we expended a considerable amount of energy this summer bringing you the news on the state’s plans to blanket much of the Bay Area with a pheromone spray in its attempts to eradicate the light brown apple moth. So imagine our surprise when we found that actual pesticides [...]
AUSD gets new CFO
Last night, Tim Rahill became Alameda Unified’s new chief financial officer. Rahill’s previous post was assistant superintendent for administrative services at the Martinez Unified School District.
He is a Benicia High School and UC Santa Barbara grad, according to his profile on LinkedIn, and it looks like he also worked for several years for the Dixon [...]
A modest proposal for the Point
Developer SunCal has formally submitted a preliminary development plan for Alameda Point. In the 132-page plan, it makes the case for its (non-Measure A compliant) vision for a community that has a diverse array of housing, functional transit and some super neat “green” features, plus a 20-acre campus for the Google of the future, a [...]
A train wreck at Towne Centre
And here we thought we’d get an early night Monday. Ha!
The Planning Board was slated to approve a plan to allow Alameda Towne Centre to expand to about 706,000 square feet from its current size of about 600,000 square feet, most of which would go to a second story for the soon-to-be-Kohl’s and shoreline improvements [...]
