Three different City of Alameda transportation projects were included in the Alameda County Transportation Commission (ACTC) 2024 Comprehensive Investment Plan (CIP). The plan documents which...
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Time To Remember:
I was honored to address attendees at the recent Memorial Day commemoration at Alameda’s Veterans Memorial Park. This moving remembrance ceremony was organized again this...

The 55th annual Sand Castle and Sand Sculpture Contest will be held June 10 at Robert Crown Memorial State Beach. The contest begins at 9 a.m. and ends at noon. Structures must be completed by...

At its May 24 meeting, the City of Alameda Transportation Commission unanimously endorsed draft recommendations for the Park Street and Webster Street Commercial Corridor Restriping Plan. At the...

St. Joseph Notre Dame (SJND) student Valerie Pham’s painting won the annual Congressional Institute Art Competition for the 12th Congressional District of California. Her piece was submitted...

Multiple Alameda city high school athletes were named to their respective All-League teams for the 2022-2023 spring sports season.
Baseball
Alameda High School (AHS) junior pitcher...

St. Joseph Notre Dame (SJND) senior Joshua Fralick captured the Bay Counties – East League men’s tennis singles championship on May 2 at Blackhawk Tennis Villas in Danville.
Fralick...

The Alameda Islanders competed in the Special Olympics Northern California Swimming Regional on Saturday, May 13th at Mills College in Oakland. Teams from cities in Alameda, Contra Costa, San...

Given the pitching talent both teams had, the Div. III North Coast Section Softball Championship game between #1 Pinole Valley and #10 Encinal High School was expected to be a low-scoring affair....

On Sunday, May 21, the Monarchs — Alameda city’s co-ed high school Ultimate Frisbee team — won first place at the State Championships. The team defeated Berkeley High, 13-7, in the championship...

Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States, affecting approximately 795,000 people each year. Per the American Stroke Association (ASA), “a stroke occurs when a blood vessel...

I continue to be surprised at how many parents do not teach their children to participate in responsibilities around the house. We set a model for how our children will be as they grow, and we...

I saw an interview with Merry Clayton. She was a back ground singer in the 60’s. The documentary Twenty Feet From Stardom included much of the work she did. She was a Raylette, when she worked...

Sun Staff Reports
The fall season has begun, and bone-dry drought conditions have made the western United States a tinderbox prime for wildfires. That, combined with the threat of...

Karin Kim Jensen
At the September 21st City Council meeting, the Council authorized the City Manager to negotiate and execute an agreement with Alameda Family Services (AFS) to provide...

Kaleb Condez, a seventh grader at St. Philip Neri Catholic School (SPN), created a website for a school project for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, to raise awareness of...

St. Joseph Notre Dame (SJND) student Valerie Pham’s painting won the annual Congressional Institute Art Competition for the 12th Congressional District of California. Her piece was submitted...

The Kiwanis Club of Alameda held a celebratory luncheon on May 17 for the seven Alameda eighth graders that received the 2023 Hope of America award. Alameda Kiwanis recognizes young leadership in...

For the second year in a row, Encinal Jr/Sr High School’s (EHS) yearbook, “Horizon” earned design recognition from Jostens, its yearbook publisher.
The table of contents spread from the...

As a result of a classroom projects undertaken by sixth graders at Lincoln Middle School (LMS), Alameda Unified School District (AUSD) is implementing a number of changes to its food and waste...