Time is running out for students to apply for the Amazon Future Engineer scholarship program. One-hundred will receive $40,000 in scholarships to study computer science, plus a guaranteed paid internship offer at Amazon.

Alameda Student, Educator Among 2020 ‘Women Who Dare’ Awardees

Alameda Boy Scout Troop 11 conducted its 48th annual holiday season service project last Saturday: the Christmas Tree Pick-up — a holiday tradition for many Alameda residents.

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The 75 second graders at Bay Farm Elementary School have started work on new community service projects this year. The effort is called “We Love Our Town!” For their first project, the kids planted more than 600 spring bulbs in November around the school. Then, on Dec.

During the week of Dec. 15, Alameda Kiwanis joined the Alameda Firefighters Toy Drive at Christ Church Episcopal Church. Club members sorted toys gathered in barrels at local businesses in the church parish hall, transforming it into a huge toy store. On Dec.

Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft marked the beginning of the Jewish festival of lights, Chanukah, last Friday at the Bridgeside Center by lighting a 10-foot menorah. Chabad of Alameda hosted the lighting, which featured performances, crafts and other fun.

Parents and students at Love Elementary School held demonstrations on various street corners the morning of Dec. 18 before school started.

To earn his Emergency Preparedness Badge in pursuit of Eagle Scout rank, James Peter (JP) Chiu (right), a 10th-grade student at St.