UPDATED: ALAMEDA FIRE CHIEF ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE
1, September 2, 2010 – 10:43 am | 8 Comments

Updated 1:23 p.m. Thursday, September 2
Alameda Fire Chief David Kapler has been placed on administrative leave following revelations he used the city’s gas pumps to fuel his personal vehicles and that he had faced similar …

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Children’s Hospital benefit Saturday
1, September 30, 2008 – 11:45 am | No Comment

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. …

Point cleanup battles continue
1, September 30, 2008 – 7:45 am | No Comment

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 …

Stark opposes bailout bill
1, September 29, 2008 – 1:00 pm | No Comment

(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 …

Monday profile: Joyce Craig
1, September 29, 2008 – 10:45 am | No Comment
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 …

State halts apple moth appeal
1, September 29, 2008 – 7:45 am | No Comment

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 …

Your weekend: Bat Boy!
1, September 26, 2008 – 7:45 am | No Comment
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 …

Sisters
1, September 25, 2008 – 7:45 am | No Comment

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 …

Spraying our schools
1, September 24, 2008 – 9:45 am | No Comment

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 …

AUSD gets new CFO
1, September 24, 2008 – 7:45 am | No Comment
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 …

A modest proposal for the Point
1, September 23, 2008 – 11:45 am | No Comment

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 …

A train wreck at Towne Centre
1, September 23, 2008 – 10:00 am | No Comment

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 …