Archive for August, 2009
Introducing …
The group behind efforts to recall three school board trustees over lessons intended to halt anti-gay bullying introduced themselves to about three dozen people at a town hall meeting Saturday at the Alameda Free Library.
Leaders of S.E.R.V.E. Alameda accused trustees Tracy Jensen, Ron Mooney and Niel Tam of placing a national “LGBT agenda” over the [...]
Police arrest Alameda man in shooting of officer
The Oakland Tribune is reporting that police have identified a suspect in the shooting of an Oakland police officer as Colin Todd of Alameda.
Police said that Todd, 41, fired at two officers who pulled his big rig over early Sunday morning because he was driving erratically, the Tribune reported. They said one officer was shot [...]
New faces populate AUSD
When families return to school today, they’ll be greeted by a host of new faces of folks helming the district and its schools, including new principals at five schools and a quartet of new staffers in the district office.
Bay Farm Elementary’s new principal is Stephen Riave, who has a quarter century of experience in education, [...]
Bay Bridge closing for Labor Day weekend
Thinking about driving into San Francisco during the long Labor Day weekend? Well, get ready to put a few extra miles on the odometer.
In what’s becoming an almost annual rite of passage, Caltrans is shutting down the Bay Bridge this coming Labor Day weekend to perform seismic work. So your options are to take the [...]
Farmer’s Market has hot rod fun
Today’s West End farmer’s market will have more than just the best fresh produce: They’re turning it into a Hot (Rod) Summer Market with music, classic cars and more.
The market, which is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today (Saturday), will have a mini-car show with cars from La Val’s pizza, a booth with members [...]
On Point: The silent treatment
Should SunCal’s plan to develop Alameda Point make it on to the ballot, there’s one group of people who may not join the large, dissonant chorus of voices who have put their two (and 10) cents into the mix: Leaseholders out at the former Naval base.
And why’s that? Because of a clause that is standard [...]
Phyllis Diller’s Island homecoming
Well, I learned something very interesting the other day: Trailblazing comedienne Phyllis Diller once called Alameda home.
Diller, 92 (yes, she’s still with us), was a housewife with five children and an unemployed husband when she came to Alameda, in the late 1940s (she has long since moved on to the tony Brentwood section of Los [...]
Cycles of Change nets bikes
Congrats to the folks out at the Cycles of Change bike shop. Their bicycle donation drive, held this past Saturday at the Bank of Alameda’s Towne Centre location, netted 44 bikes.
On a side note, another of the Alameda Point Collaborative’s ventures, Ploughshares Nursery, will host the final of its four August workshops out at Alameda [...]
Your weekend: Surf the Hora
Alameda Towne Centre wraps its Summer Serenade concert series tonight with the (strictly Kosher!) surf sounds of Meshugga Beach Party.
The free, two-hour show starts at 5:30 p.m. in the mall’s center court.
Meshugga Beach Party is the brainchild of local yokel Mel Waldorf, a surf music enthusiast who cooked up the idea for the band in [...]
KVTV
The fall TV schedule just got a very local addition: Schools Superintendent Kirsten Vital.
Starting Monday – the first day of school – Vital will host her own show on Comcast cable’s public access. The show will be on from 6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Mondays through the course of the school year.
“Our first couple of [...]
Second Walk-a-Mile for Literacy is Setpember 19
Alameda Reads, the Alameda Free Library’s adult literacy program, is hosting its second annual Walk-A-Mile for Literacy from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, September 19. The registration is $10 in advance, $15 on the day of the event, and $5 for kids.
The purpose of the event is to “walk a mile” in the shoes [...]
