The Alameda Unified School District will be honoring “Spotlight Students” in a new column in the newsletter. A Spotlight Student is someone that has made progress in their educational performance.

After eight years of marriage to Susan, the mother of my two kids, we had an apartment across from the Museum of Natural History in New York, high enough that I could see the great anthropologist Margaret Mead working at night in her turret, across from our apartment and right next to Central Par

Having moved to the Bay Area to be close to my son and his full-blooded Navajo wife and two amazing granddaughters, I found myself like a tree without water, the water of intelligent conversation and smart people to discuss meaningful subjects with.

Caught that part of television quiz show Jeopardy! when host Ken Jennings interviews the contestants briefly.

Make sure your recyclables, organics, and garbage are put in the correct container. Properly sorting your waste is now the law. California law, Senate Bill 1383,* became effective January 2022.

Help keep your community clean and green — do your part! Keep the organics stream clean.

Standing among the Island City’s longest-running businesses, Marnell Xavier’s West Coast Dance Theater (WCDT) turns 50 this year. Xavier, an Alameda native has been a self-employed woman in business since 1973.

I'm here, I'm here!
Wherever you're sitting, lying down, standing, walking,
I'm holding you, no holds barred
no qualifications needed, no letters of recommendation,
no application, no forms, no papers of any kind.

We have watched the media try to turn the Dubs into a traveling circus and haunted house, with Draymond Green as Boris Karloff, and Wiggins as The Rock, but the truth shines through, which is that they are the best basketball team in the last 50 years.

Assemblyman James Ramos introduced Assembly Bill 46 in the 2023 California legislature to exempt Military Retirees and Surviving Spouses from California income tax on military retirement pay.

Dear AUSD Staff and Community:
In the aftermath of Monday’s [March 27] tragic shooting at a school in Nashville, Tennessee, we are reminded again of the terror, grief, and loss that gun-related violence has perpetuated on so many school communities.