Archive for December, 2009
Happy New Year!
We’re getting started on our celebration a little early, but what the heck, we’ve got a lot to celebrate. Thanks for a fantastic year, have a wonderful New Year’s Eve, and we’ll be back with you on Monday with more news.
Body found at Alameda Point identified
For thirty-nine long months, John Paul Garcia’s file sat in a pile on Detective Rod Rummel’s desk. During those months, Rummel, an 18-year veteran of the Alameda Police Department, saw dozens of other missing persons cases come and go. But the case of Garcia, a 26-year-old Applebee’s employee and Alameda resident who went missing after [...]
On Point: Unions, Jack!
The already crowded field of Measure B opponents has got another player: The unions.
The Alameda Labor Council, AFL-CIO and Alameda Building and Construction Trades Council have banded together to form No on B – Bad for Alameda, newly released campaign disclosure reports show. And so far, four local unions – carpenters, painters, sheet metal workers [...]
The Island’s Year in Review
If I’ve learned anything during the past two years of covering news here, there is never a dull moment on our little Island. (Just for laughs, ask me sometime about what happened when I tried to take the kids on a little summer getaway.)
Political power plays? Check. Electoral and legal drama? Check. Lurid, tragic, absurd [...]
School board recall proponents drop bid
Proponents of an effort to recall three school board members who voted to implement an anti-gay bullying curriculum in Alameda’s elementary schools have called a halt to those efforts.
“S.E.R.V.E. Alameda, proponents of the Recall of (Tracy) Jensen, (Ron) Mooney, & Neil (sp) Tam, are withdrawing from our signature-gathering campaign, thus no longer seeking to recall [...]
The Blotter
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Monday, December 21
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ROBBERY: Police are looking for three people who robbed a woman at knifepoint this afternoon. Police said the victim was surrounded by the suspects shortly after 3 p.m. at the corner of Union Street and San Jose Avenue and robbed of her iPod. One of the suspects was wielding a knife. Police [...]
Vote for Michael!
Amid the unfortunate onslaught of news this holiday week came a sweet little e-missive – call it an e-plea – from one Michael James Collier.
Collier, an Alameda native and vice president of the East Bay Front Runners and Walkers, submitted an audition tape to host on KOFY-TV during the months of January and February. He’s [...]
RECALL RECALLED
Proponents of a recall of three school board members who voted to implement anti-gay bullying lessons in Alameda’s public schools have called a halt to their recall efforts.
“S.E.R.V.E. Alameda, proponents of the Recall of Jensen, Mooney, (and) Neil (sp) Tam, are withdrawing from our signature-gathering campaign, thus no longer seeking to recall these three Board [...]
Sweet charity!
It’s just four days to the start of the new year – which means you’ve got four more days to make your charitable donations in order to count them on this year’s tax return. But don’t worry, The Island is going to make it easy for you, by providing you a list of local charities [...]
AMP: Over the river, but not out of the woods
When Alameda Power executed a successful, $15 million divorce with its troubled Telecom last November, the collective sighs of relief at 2000 Grand Street and City Hall were audible Island-wide. But newly released financial statements show the utility faced fresh difficulties this year, in the guise of higher costs, sharply reduced investment returns and lower [...]
NoTube
Get ready to ring in the new year … with a series of late-night closures in the Webster and Posey tubes!
The fun begins at 9:30 p.m. today, when the Webster Tube will be closed for washing. It reopens at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday. That same closure schedule is slated to be in effect on Tuesday and [...]
