Archive for January, 2009
Postscript: Alameda Power & Telecom
This week brought with it an epilogue of sorts in the story of Alameda’s telecommunications adventure: The release of the former Alameda Power & Telecom’s annual (independently audited!) financial review.
The report had to be held to include details of the sale of the telecom business to Comcast, in November, and it offers hints about the [...]
Johnson: Island needs chain stores
I took a gander through my Google Alerts for Alameda last night (and it is amazing how much news our little Island generates, folks!) and found this interesting item regarding a forum of East Bay mayors, including our own, about retail development.
The forum was sponsored by the International Conference of Shopping Centers in an effort [...]
School ’shopping
Alameda Unified is reaching out to you, dear reader, on two important topics in the coming weeks: They’ll be hosting workshops on the budget and elementary school curriculum dealing with sexual orientation and gender identity. And you’re invited.
Next Wednesday and Thursday, February 4-5, they’ll host forums to lay out a proposed elementary school curriculum dealing [...]
Count Me In headed to bankruptcy
The online registration and payment company that is being sued by the Alameda Education Foundation for non-payment of parent fees has been pushed into involuntary bankruptcy by some of its former clients, according to this press release the company sent out Wednesday.
Three Alaska sports clubs that had been clients of the Bellevue, Wash.-based Count Me [...]
Alameda home sales up
Alameda homes sales and prices in December were up over the previous year, according to a new report from real estate stat-gatherers DataQuick Informaton Systems.
Home sales this past December rose 4.33 percent over sales in December 2007, they said, and the median home price of the 29 homes sold in Alameda that month was $650,000, [...]
Your weekend: Getting chili
The Kiwanis Club of Alameda is holding its 10th Annual Chili Cook-Off and Barbecue Dinner from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, January 31 at the Albert H. DeWitt Officers Club, 641 W. Redline Avenue on Alameda Point. Tickets are $50, $25 for kids ages 5-12.
In addition to the food, the event includes a silent [...]
UPDATED Alameda workers dig up human bones
Updated 9:38 p.m.
City workers doing some digging along the 3000 block of Washington Street this morning unearthed a skull and bones that authorities believe belonged to a six- to eight-year-old child.
Lt. Bill Scott said the workers were digging out a portion of cement gutter shortly before 9:30 a.m. today when they saw a skull sticking [...]
The wheels on the bus come off
The Alameda Unified School District’s finance chief laid out the impacts of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s budget proposal for next year, and they are grim. Under the proposal, the district could lose more than $4 million in state funding for the current year and 2009-2010. And that’s not counting the $650,000 it will lose when the [...]
Kent Rosenblum stays in wine game
Kent Rosenblum may have sold his eponymous winery to global beverage giant Diageo early last year. But he’s not out of the wine business.
At a newly leased, 40,000-square-foot warehouse on Alameda Point, Rosenblum is assembling a tasting room where a collection of small vintners will offer their wares. And Rosenblum himself hopes to have wines [...]
Trees!
The process for updating Alameda’s Master Tree Plan continues with a meeting from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. this Thursday, January 29 at City Hall. At this meeting, the city’s consultant on the project will present its citywide tree inventory results and recommend a planting palette for new trees.
The city has not had an update [...]
Get AMPed!
The Public Utilities Board picked a new name for our little electric company Monday night. And the winner is (drum roll please) … Alameda Municipal Power! (Punctuation added.)
The name was leading in the former Alameda Power & Telecom’s online poll (and in a separate shoe-leather poll taken by longtime resident and ad man Lil Arnerich, [...]
