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Second Alameda Point community meeting is tonight
A group of local residents is hosting the second in a series of meetings on the future of Alameda Point from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today at Auctions By the Bay Theater, 2700 Saratoga Street. The meeting is free and open to the public. The topic of tonight’s meeting is “Other Base Reuse Developments, [...]
And they’re off…the School Board version
Didn’t mean to neglect posting the School Board race candidate statements, but quite a kerfuffle erupted last week and this fell off my radar. Now in alphabetical order, and thanks to Mike McMahon for retyping these, the school board candidates and their statements! A side note: interestingly enough, both Mike McMahon and Sheri Palmer [...]
What a difference a Bay makes
On Wednesday, the Navy officially handed over Treasure Island to the City and County of San Francisco for future development. From CBS 5: Treasure Island is the last remaining piece of naval land to be turned over to the city; the others were the Presidio and the Hunters Point shipyard. About 10 percent of [...]
Parents ask district to keep childcare services
Families packed City Hall on Tuesday night to beg the school board not to shutter Woodstock Child Development Center and other childcare services on which they rely. Woodstock offers subsidized child care for low income families and fee-based care for others who can pay. The board asked district staff to look at how they can [...]
Mayor, council races set
Updated 12:59 p.m. Monday, August 9 Alameda voters can expect a crowded ballot this November, with five candidates in the mayor’s race and eight running for two open City Council seats. The council race includes a last-minute entry from Jean Sweeney, a local park and open space advocate who worked to make the former Belt [...]
The Blotter
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Monday, July 26
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GRAND THEFT: Authorities are searching for three individuals who allegedly broke into an eyeglass chest and stole eyeglasses from Gorin Eye Center at 510 South Shore Center. The two men and one female entered the office and asked for help before taking the glasses and fleeing in a silver Ford Taurus, police said.
BURGLARY: [...]
Decision 2010: Candidate update
Candidate filings are just beginning to trickle in, as are official candidacy announcements. Thursday afternoon, my inbox lit up with an e-mail from Planning Board president Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft, announcing a City Council run.
“With a budget crisis compounded by the national recession, Alameda’s challenges will only grow if we don’t leave behind the political infighting [...]
That was quick
That was the thought that popped into my head when the Press Release from the Firefighters landed in my email box yesterday afternoon. The Firefighters Union has beaten all other groups to the punch and put out their endorsement for Mayor already. Which is timely considering that at least one candidate: Frank Matarrese [...]
You couldn’t ignore me if you tried
Buried at the end of the very long City Council meeting the other night, there was this Council Referral brought to the City Council by Mayor Beverly Johnson. Up until the Council Referral document was actually drafted, the intent — according to the Mayor — was to ask John Knox White to step down from [...]
Local business owner to make City Council run
Alameda’s got a new face in its City Council race in the form of one Adam Gillitt, a business owner who has lived on the Island since 2002.
Gillitt, 40, said in an e-mail interview that he wishes to provide strong, independent and open representation to local residents that he says is lacking at City Hall. [...]
