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Easter Egg Scramble at Crab Cove

Roughly 200 children of all ages and their parents attended the 2008 Spring Egg Scramble this morning at Crab Cove in Alameda. The event was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Alameda, the East Bay regional Park District and the Alameda Recreation and Park Department. At 11:30am sharp, the horn blew and the [...]

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Parents, Students Protest Music Cuts at Alameda City Hall

Approximately fifty city of Alameda parents and students staged a rally on the steps of Alameda City Hall in Alameda today to protest proposed cuts in music progams at Alameda schools. Chanting slogans, banging on drums, shaking tambourines and blowing into kazoos and harmonicas, parents and students waved signs, marched in a circle [...]

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Alameda City Council calls for Transparency on Redevelopment Funds

At the Tuesday, March 4, 2008 Alameda City Council meeting, council members called for greater transparency into the use of redevelopment funds, specifically as pertains to Alameda Unified School District redevelopment “pass-through” funds maintained by the City of Alameda Community Improvement Commission.

In accordance with a 1991 agreement between the City of Alameda Community [...]

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AP&T to Sell Telecom Divison – To whom?

Alameda Power & Telecom has announced its intention to find a buyer for its foundering telecom division. The utility has some $80 million of debt, including a $43 million transfer from the electric division to the telecom division. But who would buy the telecom division and take on all of that debt?

Comcast is [...]

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Filmmakers Screen “Five Years in the West End of Alameda”

Roughly 75 people, including members of the Chipman School Cougars drum band assembled in building F at Alameda College at 4pm on March 1st to watch a new documentary “Civic Unity: Five Years in the West End of Alameda.” The filmmakers, Gary Weimberg and Catherine Ryan were originally hired to make a film about [...]

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Measure A Forum – Transit and Schools

At the Measure A forum on February 23rd, 2008, we didn’t get much chance to talk about the relationship between housing, public transit and schools. With the challenges Alameda Unified School District is facing, and the need to keep our Average Daily Attendance (ADA) numbers up, we should be paying attention to this. The [...]

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