Paul Rolleri was a 19-year-old criminal justice student at California State University, East Bay when Alameda Police officer Robert James Davey, Jr. was shot and killed while assisting on a drug raid, on March 3, 1983.
“I remembered being in town that night. I drove down Central Avenue past the house, saw the crime scene tape,” Rolleri recalled, adding that three Alameda police officers attended classes with him at Cal State. Read more >> about Police memorial to be unveiled today
Alameda’s home-based bread-bakers and nut-makers could soon have the opportunity to sell their wares if policy-makers approve new rules allowing budding food-based businesses to operate out of residents’ homes.
East Bay Regional Park District representatives and their supporters voiced their continued opposition Wednesday to a proposed housing development on property the park district had hoped to purchase for an expansion of Crab Cove. And a city staffer acknowledged the park district may have found a way to stop the project in its tracks. Read more >> about Park district opposes homes on site it sought for expansion
The need for a multi-year budget plan to prepare for higher pension and other employee costs was discussed at the special meeting of the City Council on Tuesday night.
The council reviewed the spending plan for the 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 fiscal years but took no action. Adoption of the final, two-year budget, which includes expenditures of $163 million next year, will take place next month. Read more >> about Council discusses budget plan and parking prices
Dr. Jannett N. Jackson is leaving the College of Alameda. Contributed photo.
Updated at 2:08 p.m. Tuesday, May 28
College of Alameda President Dr. Jannett N. Jackson has been offered the post of chancellor of the Chabot-Las Positas Community College District. The community college district’s board announced May 21 that they had voted to offer Jackson the job, and that they expected to approve her contract in June. Read more >> about College of Alameda president leaving for new job
Mike Connelly worked to restore his 37-foot sailboat at Nelson’s Marine for three years. He found out the Alameda Point boat yard was being evicted less than two weeks before the Alameda County Sheriff came to padlock its gates.
Connelly’s boat isn’t yet sea worthy – he figures his restoration project has about six months to go. But even if she were, his boat is blocked by other boats that are still on the premises, some of whose owners may not even know Nelson’s was shut down.
Anne Kronenberg was a typist in her early 20s when Harvey Milk asked her to manage his 1977 campaign for San Francisco supervisor. And over the months Kronenberg worked as campaign manager and then aide to the larger-than-life Milk – the first openly gay man elected to political office in the United States – he became a political mentor, father figure and friend whose passion for equality left a lasting mark on society. Read more >> about Event celebrates Harvey Milk's legacy
The Brookings Institution has released a new book that shows poverty in America's suburbs is rising faster than in its cities. According to the book, poverty in the suburbs surrounding the county's major metros has risen twice as fast over the past decade than it has in the cities themselves. Here's a glimpse of how many Alamedans have lived in poverty over the past several decades. Read more >> about Poverty in the suburbs: The Alameda edition
The city hopes to acquire much of Alameda Point on June 4. Conveyance map from the city's website.
The City Council is preparing to sign off on a major real estate deal that’s been two decades in the making.
On Tuesday, the council will consider allowing Alameda’s city manager to affix his John Russo to the deeds for 1,379 acres of Alameda Point, a deal city staffers hope to close on June 4.
