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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Postscript: Alameda Power & Telecom
1, January 30, 2009 – 9:00 am | No Comment
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 …

Johnson: Island needs chain stores
1, January 30, 2009 – 8:30 am | No Comment

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 …

School ‘shopping
1, January 30, 2009 – 7:45 am | No Comment

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. …

Count Me In headed to bankruptcy
1, January 29, 2009 – 12:00 pm | No Comment

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 …

Alameda home sales up
1, January 29, 2009 – 8:30 am | No Comment

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 …

Your weekend: Getting chili
1, January 29, 2009 – 7:45 am | No Comment

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 …

UPDATED Alameda workers dig up human bones
1, January 28, 2009 – 9:38 pm | No Comment
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 …

The wheels on the bus come off
1, January 28, 2009 – 9:00 am | No Comment

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 …

Kent Rosenblum stays in wine game
1, January 28, 2009 – 8:30 am | No Comment

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 …

Trees!
1, January 28, 2009 – 7:45 am | No Comment

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 …

Get AMPed!
1, January 27, 2009 – 8:30 am | No Comment

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 …