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Alameda firefighters quickly extinguished an early morning blaze today at a home on the 500 block of Pacific Avenue. Firefighters aren’t yet certain of the cause of the fire, though fireworks were reported to be going off in the area before the fire.
Firefighters received a call about the fire at 3:21 a.m. today. When they arrived, they found the porch area at the front of the house on fire, Division Chief Matt Tunney said. Tunney said the home’s owner was attempting to extinguish the fire with a garden hose. He said firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze and spent the ...
A few months ago during a protest outside City Hall a curious onlooker passed by. While people waved their signs and chanted against the latest development proposal for Alameda Point, the onlooker slowed down his vehicle, which he moved forward and backward a couple of feet to remain relatively stationary so he could get a good look.
He was on a unicycle.
A few weeks later, while waiting for the light to change at Oak Street and Santa Clara Avenue, a guy wheeled quietly around the corner on the sidewalk and headed northbound on Oak Street.
He was on a Segway.
While driving down ...
Today's Alameda Snapshot is courtesy of the Mayor's Parade website. Mayor Beverly Johnson riding in a carriage in last year's parade. Wishing everyone a happy Forth of July. Enjoy the weekend.
Not enough to do on the Island this coming fourth of July? Well, here’s two more events.
The Aeolian Yacht Club is holding a free open house and BBQ from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, one of two membership events they’ll be holding this month.
They’re promising lots of fun activities plus raffles of items donated by local businesses (which will begin at about noon).
For more information, contact the club’s office manager, Sherry Armijo, at 523-2586 or aeolianyc@aol.com. The club is at 980 Fernside Drive, right by the Bay Farm Island bridge.
They’re also having a tropical party beginning at 10 a.m. ...
One of Alameda Municipal Power’s continuing efforts to go green with its power came online this week: The Ox Mountain landfill in Half Moon Bay.
Working with Framingham, Mass.-based energy company Ameresco and the City of Palo Alto, they’ve built an energy plant to capture gases at the landfill and turn them into electricity. Now that it’s online, the plant will provide 11 percent of our electricity and will be one of three landfill gas plants we’re using, according to this press release on CBS’s MarketWatch website.
Another plant is slated to come online this year at the Keller Canyon landfill in ...
A few weeks ago a friend told me about PlayBall! Alameda’s Sandlot Blog, which chronicles the glorious tenures of kids who played Rec & Park league ball at local parks in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
My friend, a onetime “park rat” himself, told me the kids used to show up, sign themselves in and play - without the cadre of parents that is more commonplace at kids’ sporting events these days. The uniform was a T-shirt, he said.
The site’s owner, Kin Robles - an Alameda native and a Franklin Eagle himself - wrote that he learned of the lasting impacts ...
Not much to say as I am in Long Weekend mode. Race, Parade, Jubilee, Fireworks, you name it, it’s happening in Alameda tomorrow.
Although, I’ve always wondered where folks would say the best place to view fireworks in Alameda is. Last year, we thought to try out Alameda Point near Hangar One, but it was a little, um, hairy, so we ended up back at the park near Ruby Bridges which actually has a nice-ish view of the Jack London fireworks, so we’ll probably do that again.
I guess the Hornet would be a good spot, but that isn’t free, but it ...
Soon it will be time to celebrate the historic declaration of our nation's independence from that dark liquid to which its entire population had become hopelessly addicted, namely, British tea. Since nothing says "independence" quite like blowing things up, I hopped into my hybrid S.U.V. and began my annual trek to the fireworks stand. On the long drive, I started thinking about the environmental impact of the large purchase I was about to make: Just how green is our fireworks display? I resolved then and there to make this our greenest Independence Day ever!Upon arrival at the stand, I started ...
Bad financial times do lead to crime. Here is a post from the Alameda Times-Star Web site.
Today, The Labor Department report, released a job loss report that showed Employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June, driving the unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent. This is very bad news form the Real Estate market as a whole.I can not quantify how much impact the Nation’s job losses have had a local impacted on Alameda. But with job loss the Island’s Realtors, Mortgage Brokers, Contractors, local business will all suffer. With fewer homes selling, the City’s Transfer Tax will continue to underperform the projections.The numbers suggest that the economy's road to recovery will ...
