A telecommunications company and bondholder that sued Alameda Municipal Power on a claim the utility cheated it out of revenues it should have been paid from Alameda’s former telecom business has earned a $1.95 million judgment in federal court.
A jury handed down the judgment for Vectren Communications Services on Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
More to come.
Jurors have issued a verdict in the lawsuit between Vectren and Alameda Municipal Power. Vectren sued AMP for money they claimed they were promised from system profits which never materialized. $6.3 million in fact, plus interest. When the City sold the system to Comcast, Vectren sued. The total...
Last week, Wednesday evening to be exact, the agenda for the Special Meeting of the Community Improvement Commission (which is the city council sitting as Alameda's Redevelopment agency) had an item on it titled, "Executive Director Communication - Civic Center Master Plan - Vision...
Eve Pearlman wrote a really great article about The Academy of Alameda Middle School on Friday at the Island. For those of you that did not catch it, highlights here:
The Academy was developed with careful consideration for the community that the new school would likely be serving and to research-based methods for supporting student success. “We looked at our diverse population,” said Lori MacDonald, who worked on the charter petition, “and made an intentional decision to structure the school so all students would be learning together in a supportive academic community.”
Each day at The Academy will start with a ...
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 No Child Left Behind, Chipman Middle had to close, fire 90 percent of its teachers and administrators or become a charter school.
Chipman employees will have the opportunity to apply for a position at the new school, with teacher applications accepted at the end of March ...
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 by CVS. It also envisions a host of new residential, office, retail and parking along civic center corridors; parks where some of the city’s existing parking lots sit; and better pedestrian access and lighting in the areas that surround City Hall.
Some specific uses proposed during ...
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Game Recaps Saturday, March 6 2010 – Opening Day
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Edyn Garvisch from the Gallagher & Lindsey Fire Devils chasing down Jane Rausser from the Barbara Galera, DDS Lightning Bolts. Photo by Tony Shaffer.
AGSA 6U
Protex Wax Alameda A’s vs. Burger King/Astropress Firecrackers
We were so excited it decided not to rain for our opening game! Charlotte Daly had a great stop to end the first inning, and Brighid Mahoney had a great lead off hit in the second. Cate Rosenbaum hit it straight down the third base line to drive in a run, and Chloe Altura made an amazing catch at second ...
Intrepid investigative reporter blows lid off scandal!No-bid contract included ultra-long-distance calls, interplanetary travel expenses!Last year, the Alameda Unified School District entered into a $65,536 contract with a Martian consulting firm for "design and programming of AUSD website redesign." The same firm worked on the successful passage of Measure Shech, the 20-yanuv extension of the ½-kuph sales tax used to fund intergalactic infrastructure projects such as the construction of the much-anticipated fourth wormhole of the Alpha Centauri hyperspace bypass.Inaction Alameda News made the discovery in the process of watching Teenagers from Outer Space, a prescient 1959 documentary about the troubles that ...
According to flyers up around town, including one posted at Pagano’s Hardware, Alameda has a new gardening group — which is meeting this Thursday, March 11, from 6-7 p.m.
The group calls itself Alameda Backyard Growers. It plans to build on the “planting the seed theme” at its first meeting, set to take place at High Street Station coffeehouse at 1303 High Street.
For more details, call 510 282 5249 or 510 402 8834.
Seems like it’s a great time to get planting. Spring is upon us, and for those of us in need of help with our green thumbs (or brown thumbs), ...
Last Thursday, students, teachers and parents (but mostly students) took to the streets to protest the state of California's education funding, which is currently proposed by Gov. Schwarzenegger, to go down in both real and adjusted-for-inflation terms. In Alameda, folks rallied at the High School,...
