Support for Measure H continues to grow. Following Tuesday’s Alameda City Council vote to endorse Measure H, on Friday afternoon ACLC’s Governing Board announced that it too supports Measure H. The ACLC Board’s resolution calls on the ACLC community to “participate in activities that will encourage Alameda voters to vote yes for Measure H.”
Here is the full text of the resolution:
ACLC Governing Board Resolution Supporting the Passage of Measure H:
Whereas: ACLC learners are AUSD public school students, and
Whereas: ACLC learners benefit from their ability to participate in Encinal High School and other AUSD sports, music, drama, and other elective academic ...
In the May 19 issue of Newsweek, out next week, you can check out the ranking of our two main Alameda public high schools. Encinal is ranked 871 out of 27,000 high schools in the country (up over 100 places from last year), and Alameda High is ranked 473. The ranking is based on a forumla having to do with the number of graduating seniors, the number of AP exams administered, the number of free and reduced lunches served, and each school’s College Board equity and excellence rating. The 2008 rankings aren’t up online just yet, but, ...
There’s a joke about economists in a bar talking about their net worth. Each one is proudly talking about how much they have and when they get to the last person to speak, he breaks out into a big smile. Asked why, he points behind the other and says “Bill Gates just walked in, our average network just went up 10,000%.”
About a year ago, the Harbor Bay Village VI project EIR came to the Transportation Commision. This is the project which has applied for some of the business park to be re-zoned. It’s a complicated project (unless you just say ...
Could these be the final days for Central Cinema? A few weeks ago, in the Journal, owner Mark Haskett complained that the nearly-opened Alameda Theatre and Cineplex is hogging all the movies this summer, leaving his single-screen, 49-seat house in the lurch. Now comes the news that Haskett is looking for a new location and may be facing eviction. As much as I’m sure I’ll enjoy the new theater, I want to express appreciation for the fact that we have a little place in town which, for one thing, isn’t as loud and scary for little kids as a big ...
As my daughter would loudly proclaim, “ohhh noes!” That was my first reaction when I read the Alameda Sun article about the most recent Central Cinema problems. Highlights for those of you that have not yet read it:
Alameda’s Central Cinema, the plucky small-time independent operation, is $2,900 in arrears on its rent and will be evicted June 5 unless payment is made, according to a Notice to Pay or Quit taped to the movie theater’s door Tuesday.
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“The landlord and I have had back and forth negotiations,” Haskett said. He said the notices could be a negotiating tactic.
The property’s owner, Dennis ...
A 12-year-old Alameda boy, Joe Carter, found a diamond ring in a little black box Sunday when he was boating with his father off Crissy Field. He then set off on a quest to find the owner. First posting on craigslist, and then catching the attention of Alamedan and Chronicle reporter Steve Rubenstein, who penned this article. If it is your ring—it’s a one-quarter carat diamond ring with a price tag indicating it was on sale for $499—or you know whose it is, you can reach the Carters through their craigslist posting.
On Sunday morning a message, which had been posted to several neighborhood google/yahoo groups, appeared in my email inbox:
We lost one of our black silkie chickens near Santa Clara and Court. If you see a small black chicken roaming around please call us 301-xxxx (cell) We miss her. She is a pet, not dinner.
Thanks,
Meresa
PS If you want to see what silkies look like check out this site.
Backyard chickens are becoming, it seems, an increasingly common Alameda phenomenon. Local writer Susan Davis described the trend for the March-April Alameda Magazine.
I didn’t go looking for the chicken, but ...
It’s easy to get swept up in the promise of Alameda Point, with its acres upon acres of available land and stunning view of downtown San Francisco. But a closer look brings home some troubling realities: the rampant contamination and the young Bay mud and flood plain that cover a goodly portion of the land – and the Navy’s $108.5 million asking price.People have worked for 15 years to carefully calibrate a development plan that realizes the Point’s promise: some 1,736 homes, a luxury hotel, a golf course, shopping, offices and transit. There’s just one problem: No developer, SunCal included, ...
Next Thursday (5/15) is Bike To Work Day, so this weekend is a perfect time to get your bike tuned up and, if you’re new to bike commuting, thinking a little about how you’re going to get where you’re going.
To this end, there’s a group of riders meeting on Friday mornings at 7:50 (and leaving promptly at 8 am) to ride to downtown Oakland. The pace is easy and new riders are not only welcome but encouraged. We’ve already had some first-timers, and the experience was positive enough that they are returning.
With gas breaking $4 a gallon, if you ...
Well this one snuck by really quietly but I think it’s rather important to mention. The City Council on Tuesday night sitting as the Community Improvement Commission approved a letter of intent for a property exchange. What does that all mean? Basically, that the Willie Stargell Avenue Extension project will be moving forward. One of the major hurdles for the extension was convincing the College of Alameda to give up a huge parcel of land in order to run the extension to Webster Street. The Peralta Trustees determined that they would “gift” a right-of-way to the City and the parcel that ...
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