Archive for March, 2009
INTERIM FINANCE MANAGER SET TO TAKE CITY MANAGER POST
Updated 2:02 p.m.
The City Council is set to name Interim Finance Manager Ann Marie Gallant as their interim city manager, per the agenda for a special meeting to be held Wednesday night.
Gallant, who has held city manager jobs in three other, smaller California cities, would take the job for the next 24 months, effective April [...]
Alameda Fire Chief Dave Kapler station on impact of cuts
I met with the Alameda’s Fire Chief Dave Kapler this morning to ask him the question that I think is probably on most Alamedans’ minds: “What do fire station ‘brown outs’ mean for us when we call in an emergency?”
Kapler gave me some stats, comparing response time in 2008 to response time in [...]
Point development protest at City Hall
Waving “Save Measure A” signs and chanting “No More Lies, No More Lies,” about 50 people gathered at City Hall on Monday to protest development plans for Alameda Point and Mayor Beverly Johnson’s support for those plans – a stance they said contradicts her support for the development-limiting Measure A.
A flyer from a group calling [...]
Island sports: Alameda Little League update
Majors’ Division
The Shooting Stars Photography Astros 5, Dome Fits Nationals 2
Greg Ngim of the Astros and Robbie Achromowitz of the Nationals battled in a great pitching duel on March 29th. Fine plays by the Nationals Alex Rados at 2nd held the Astros bats in check, but in the bottom of the fifth the Astros were [...]
Grammy-winning guitarist plays Julie’s tonight
I usually save this stuff for my weekend post, but this is happening tonight, and it sounds too good to miss: Julie’s Coffee & Tea Garden is hosting Grammy Award-winning bluegrass guitarist Scott Nygaard, with mandolinist Paul Kotapish, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. tonight. And the show is free.
Nygaard, who is a San Francisco [...]
Hell no, we won’t go, etc…
Read the Specific Plan yet? Development Agreement? No? Don’t worry, you’re in good company because I don’t think the folks protesting yesterday have either. They were too busy putting together signs and putting out press releases to bother with those dirty details. Because why bother countering with a solid campaign about why the SunCal plan sucks [...]
Alameda Point: Desperately seeking attention
We’re all familiar with crowd overcounts by protest organizers. This makes sense when you’re dealing with 100s of 1000s of people. But what’s the excuse when you have a photo of all of them, and there are less than 40?
Long-Awaited “KFC” Coming to Park Street Shopping District
Dear Rog:
Residents may have noticed the sounds and sights of new construction in the Park Street area for the first time in many months. Yes, that’s right, we have a new restaurant coming to the Park Street Shopping District, one that people have been demanding for decades. It’s a new business that comes our way all the way from the state of Kentucky, famous for its blue grass music, Bourbon Street, and that adorable little “KU Jayhawk” college mascot. Yes, it’s called “Kentucky Fried Chicken”, or for those “under twenty” hipsters for convenience in typing into their twittering eye-phones and BlueBerries, its short name is KFC.
We are more than a little excited to have “KFC” finally coming to Park Street! It will be opening up at the corner of Park Avenue (Park Street’s younger sibling, but still a part of the Park Street district) and Encinal Avenue, across from Jackson Park. This is great improvement to this corner, which has been needing some fresh businesses for a while. All that we had at this corner was a “restaurant” that was, coincidentally, also called KFC. We’re glad that eyesore of a building has finally been demolished and the owners of that seedy dive kicked off of the island, as it was a drain on the Jackson Park area’s charming character.
Come by and say “hello” to the friendly construction crew as they put the walls and roof up on Alameda’s soon-to-be favorite restaurant. This new part of the Park Street Scene promises to be classy yet family-friendly, and great for both lunchtime high school students on a tight budget as well as the most discerning eater looking for a four-star experience. And don’t worry, the owner promises plenty of flat-screen televisions—one over each booth!
—Michael Moose
Executive Director
Park Street Merchants’ Association
Fire at Alameda Point
With Alameda firefighters in the news a good deal (they’re collecting signatures for an amendment to the city charter that would mandate minimum staffing levels, the city is suing to block the proposed charter amendment, and they’re wrestling with cut backs–the ‘browned out‘ station was last week switched from Bay Farm to the west end) [...]
FISC fire under investigation
Police and fire officials are investigating the fire that destroyed an abandoned administrative building on former Naval lands behind the College of Alameda.
Alameda Fire Captain Ken Rankin said the fire is mostly out but is still smoldering in some spots of the building, which he said has not been used in at least 15 years.
“I [...]
