Article Archive for September 2008
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. …
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 …
(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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …




