Alameda News

Bertholf Unloads Drugs

Nov 26,2015

Crewmembers aboard the Alameda-based U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf offloaded more than 25 tons of cocaine valued at more than $765-million at the Port of San Diego Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal on Nov. 19. Five Coast Guard cutters and one Canadian navy vessel with a U.S.

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Madeline Eustis  Nea Community Learning Center’s mock school board hearing participants paused on the City Hall steps.

Mayor Presides Over Students’ School Debate

Nov 26,2015

Nov. 16 was no ordinary Monday for Nea Community Learning Center’s junior class. Instead of their regular morning routine, they headed to Alameda City Hall, dressed to impress and ready to conduct a mock school board hearing. 

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Navy Housing Site Safe to Transfer

Nov 19,2015

The Navy recently decided that North Housing — a vacant residential area located between Alameda Point and Alameda Landing — is safe for transfer. The approval comes after the Navy stopped a program to clean groundwater at the site to drinking-water standards. 

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Adults Cited in Youth’s Death

Nov 19,2015

Seventeen-year-old Clay Harding died on Nov. 23, 2014, after ingesting prescription drugs and alcohol at the Alameda home of Kathleen Perkins, 57, and her son Matt Arnstein. 

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Courtesy photo  USS Hornet’s new executive director Jill Knowland Rapposelli sits in the cabin door of a replica of “Helo 66,” the SH-3H Sea King that recovered the Apollo astronauts. The helicopter is painted in the same “66” livery as the original.

Hornet Taps New Executive Officer

Nov 19,2015

The USS Hornet announced that the floating museum has hired its first female executive director in the person of Jill Knowland Rapposelli. She will lead museum operations, educational programs and the ship’s capital campaign. A Piedmont resident, Rapposelli lives in Piedmont.

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