Welcome to the Alameda Sun!

The Alameda Sun is Alameda’s only independently owned and operated newspaper (its first in more than a decade) and is owned by Alamedans. Home-delivered free of charge every Thursday with a current circulation of 20,000, the Alameda Sun prides itself on focusing solely on Alameda news, events, people and causes.

The Alameda Sun offers many opportunities for the residents of Alameda to give voice to their opinions and experiences, with interactive features such as The Sun Shines Everywhere, Garden Gems, Fish Tales, and our forthcoming Man on the Street Q&A and letters to the editor.

The Alameda Sun strives to feature well-written local stories with humor, sensitivity and style, and as much as humanly possible, aims to cover the Island for all Alameda happenings.

The Alameda Sun is the only publication in Alameda to regularly cover local business, religion, technology, boats/maritime, historic homes / architectural preservation and complete crime reporting, among other unique features including local columnists.

Our staff of passionate professionals possess more than 70 years of combined experience in the newspaper industry.

Contributions to Alameda/Community Involvement

The Alameda Sun is a tireless supporter of Alameda community causes and the local business community.

The Alameda Sun has formed partnerships and donated space to such local organizations and causes as First Saturdays in Alameda (Alameda Education Foundation concert series), the Alameda City Arts Council, Run for the Parks and A Season for Nonviolence.

The Alameda Sun has donated ad space to local school fundraisers and to organizations such as Meals on Wheels, Girls Inc. and The Friends of the Parks, as well as regular ad donations to the Chamber of Commerce, PSBA, GABA and WABA events.

Employees of the Alameda Sun have volunteered their time for Art in the Park, Run for the Parks, Peanut Butter & Jam, Art & Wine and the Spring Festival.

The Alameda Sun supports local public and private schools with a weekly Athlete of the Week feature (newspaper photo and a Certificate of Achievement for the student), has contributed plants and equipment to several school gardens and hosted students as part of Groundhog Job Shadow Day.

The Alameda Sun often features student-written articles and poetry, as well as in-depth regular education news coverage.

Sun staffers have volunteered at local schools (preschool through high school), giving demonstrations and talks about the newspaper business, and participated in the Principal for a Day event.

The Alameda Sun, an Alameda-based small business itself, supports local business with the regular feature, Merchant of the Week, and within a month of beginning publication, launched the “Shop Alameda First” campaign, featuring free stickers for merchants’ windows and special promotions designed to further promote local commerce and keep tax dollars on the Island.

The Alameda Sun regularly features stories about grand openings, ribbon-cuttings and other business news. As a member of the Chamber of Commerce, PSBA, WABA and GABA, the Alameda Sun continues to promote and support local businesses in every way possible, with creative ad campaigns, group rates and collaborations.

Alameda as the Locale for our Business

There is no other possible location for the Alameda Sun besides the beautiful Island City of Alameda. The owners saw a niche in their own town for all-local news coverage and sought to fill it.

The past year has shown that we have done what we promised in our first issue: to give Alamedans (not Piedmonters or San Leandrans or any other city’s residents) the local news and fun tidbits about Alameda kids, Alameda neighbors and Alameda neighborhoods – both ends of the Island and Bay Farm, too – in a family-friendly format and with the best caliber of writing possible.

The Alameda Sun was created for the people of Alameda, to help keep them informed of what is going on in their city.

Our aim has always been to promote the Island, and we have made this our first priority, at great personal expense and sacrifice.

We hope that our efforts at the Alameda Sun have actually affected people’s lives in Alameda over the past year, and will continue to do so in the future.

We don’t intend to make history for future generations, but we do mean to record it.