Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft
Like landing on the surface of Mars, registering for a COVID-19 vaccine takes perseverance! But scheduling your vaccine should be less daunting than slowing NASA’s...
Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft
Like landing on the surface of Mars, registering for a COVID-19 vaccine takes perseverance! But scheduling your vaccine should be less daunting than slowing NASA’s...
About 8:30 a.m., last Monday a driver jumped the curb with his pickup truck at Santa Clara Avenue and High Street.
He slammed into and damaged the cast-iron fence that defines the boundary...
The mixed-use residential project at the former Del Monte warehouse on Buena Vista Avenue shows its interior is ready for new construction from above. The site will eventually house up to 589...
A new artisan bakery with a noble mission is coming to Alameda. Firebrand Artisan Breads of Oakland will be moving most of its production facilities to a renovated warehouse at Alameda Point in...
Ekene Ikeme
The future plans for the pools at Franklin and Lincoln parks are being further complicated due to an amended California law.
The two pools are currently operated by the...
(Pictured at the right): Pepper and Paige thank each other with a golf-club tap after a match during the Alameda Junior Golf Club’s (AJGC) successful 2020 season. The players all wore masks, as...
Encinal High School (EHS) has recognized six scholar-athletes for their work in the classroom and on the field. Volleyball player Madelyn Macaskill has been named EHS Female Athlete of the Year...
Encinal High School graduates including Danielle Payopay, left, celebrated their graduation at Alameda Theater on May 26. The Alameda Sun is planning a graduation special edition to be mailed to...
Vince Hal, cashier at Alameda Natural Grocery, sprays disinfectant onto shopping baskets and carts. Shoppers enter incrementally after washing hands at the portable sinks or using hand-sanitizing...
The Alameda Sun shone bright in sunny Arizona where Lawrence Sasaki and friends had fun at spring training in Tempe, Ariz., back when everyone thought the season would proceed on a normal schedule...
Sun Staff Reports
The Alameda Unified School District (AUSD) initiated the first phases of a comprehensive COVID19 testing program of staff on Feb. 3. The testing is a key component of the...
If you have Medicare and want to be tested for COVID-19, you should be aware that Medicare covers tests with no out-of-pocket costs. You can get tested in your home, doctor’s office, a local...
At Medicare, we understand people may have concerns about going to a doctor’s office during the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Like so many Americans, Medicare beneficiaries are...
In the 1970s, James Robb, MD FCAP — renowned pathologist, microbiologist and former professor of pathology at the University of California San Diego — became one of the first molecular virologists...
Nearly 1 in 3 deaths in America are related to heart disease. More than 50 years ago President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaimed as February American Heart Month. Cardiovascular disease many attribute...
Sun Staff Reports
Alameda Junior Golf Association (AJGA) and Youth on Course is busy getting ready for the 2021 junior golf season. AJGA boardmember and volunteer Lynn Perata is giving out...
Sun Staff Reports
Explore the magic and science of bubbles this Sunday, Feb. 21, at 1:30 p.m. with Louis Pearl, otherwise known as “The Amazing Bubble Man.” Pearl combines comedy, science...
J onah Linville, 1.5, shares the latest Island City news with his buddy Curious George after apparently taking last week’s article to heart. “What’s Black and White and Read all Over?,” Jan. 21...
Members of the Bay Farm School community and local cryptozoologists tipped us off about a recent sighting of a yeti on Bay Farm Island. The yeti is actually a product of the Gardner family, the...
Kin Projects, a collaborative project by All Good Living, came together to provide toiletry kits with basic essentials for Alameda schools to give away to homeless and kids in need. Embrace Church...
Alameda Recreation and Parks Department just released the attached map reflecting suggested design changes to the western end of Jean Sweeney Open Space Park.
The City of Alameda is seeking community input on proposed designs for a new mural located on Blanding Avenue. This artwork is part of the city’s public art grant, originally awarded in 2018.
The City of Alameda has been at work addressing the fact that Shore Line Drive regularly floods when it rains since last November.
Pull up the Alameda Daily Evening Encinal edition of Sept. 29, 1891, and printed inside is a copy of the original text that created Alameda Fire Department (AFD). Ordinance 175 delinated how AFD...
Sun Staff Reports
Join several local writers and poets at a special event titled “Black Writers & Poets on Black Voice in Literature” on Tuesday, Feb. 23, at 7 p.m.
Panelists...
Dennis Evanosky
The Alameda Naval Air Station opened on November 1, 1940. However, the Navy arrived in a city with an aviation history that stretched back more than 30 years to 1909 and...
Old Valentine cards used to range from the lacy sentimental to the sassy sophisticated. They carried on a tradition that began nearly 1,400 years before, when the first paper Valentines appeared...
Dennis Evanosky
Nothing remains of Alfred A. Cohen’s Alameda Park Hotel he built to entice the wealthy to visit, and, he hoped, move to Alameda. Cohen’s plan failed and he put the property—...
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