Archive for the ‘Island News’
Johnson declares candidacy for supe seat
Mayor Beverly Johnson has announced she is running for the Alameda County Board of Supervisors seat that is being vacated by Alice Lai-Bitker at the end of this year.
“I am running because I feel I am the best prepared to tackle many of the serious problems facing the people of District 3 and the county [...]
ACLO up in the air?
I want to tell you about an emerging story regarding one of Alameda’s biggest cultural institutions, the Alameda Civic Light Opera. Sounds like years of bad economic times have caught up with them, resulting in the cancellation of their children’s summer camp and questions about the status of their 2010 season.
A reader checked in earlier [...]
Help wanted: Census takers!
Times are tight, but someone’s hiring: The U.S. Census Bureau.
The bureau is hiring a million people nationwide – Walmart numbers, people – to go door to door for eight weeks this spring to complete and collect decennial census forms from people who haven’t yet mailed them in. The pay is (a decidedly non-Walmart) $22 an [...]
Teacher layoff notifications okayed
The Board of Education undertook the grim task Tuesday night of approving notifications to dozens of teachers that they could be laid off at the end of the school year.
The district could cut the full-time equivalent of up to 102.7 teaching positions for a savings of more than $6.2 million. Some 46 temporary teachers could [...]
The Blotter
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Monday, March 1
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BURGLARY: Police arrested Denise Renee Porter, 35, address not given, and Jason Santiago Inocencio, 22, no address given, on burglary charges. Police said Porter was arrested on probable cause when she was observed walking in front of a school on the 2200 block of Encinal Avenue and that Inocencio was stopped and detained [...]
Running around town
Looking for a good reason to get in shape over the next few months? How about three?
First up: Back to Life Chiropractic’s St. Patty’s Day Dash, which takes place this Saturday, March 13 at Robert W. Crown Memorial State Beach. This second annual 5K run/walk (and half-miler for the kids) is a benefit for the [...]
JURY GRANTS $1.95 MILLION JUDGMENT IN TELECOM SUIT
Updated 3:12 p.m. Wednesday, March 10
A jury has granted a $1.95 million judgment to a company that sued the city over money it said it was owed from Alameda’s former telecommunications business. The judgment came after a three-week trial in federal court.
Alameda Municipal Power General Manager Girish Balachandran said city officials are considering appealing the [...]
Getting ready for The Academy
By Stacy Lawrence
At today’s Board of Education meeting, Alameda Unified School District officials will provide an update on The Academy of Alameda Middle School. That’s the charter school approved by the School Board late last year as a replacement for Chipman Middle School, and it will open this fall.
Due to the mandates of the federal [...]
City’s got civic center vision thing
City leaders are moving forward on a plan to revamp Alameda’s civic core that could be put in motion in the next 15 to 18 months, Interim City Manager Ann Marie Gallant has said.
The plan envisions new uses for the former Chun gas station, Towata Flowers and Carnegie library, and for the space now occupied [...]
Otis considers staggered mornings next year
By Ani Dimusheva
Teachers at Otis Elementary School are proposing to stagger the start of the school day for the school’s K-3 students in an effort to preserve small group instruction time they fear they’ll lose when class sizes increase next year.
Around 75 parents packed Otis’s multipurpose room Thursday night to get information on the proposal, [...]
Proposed anti-bullying books available for review
School district officials have released a list of books they’re considering to complement the district’s existing elementary school-level anti-bullying curriculum.
The 39 books on the list, which includes books from the California Department of Education’s recommended K-12 reading list for 2009 and books from private collections, include tomes intended to teach tolerance for students with different [...]
