"The key to going from a flat, dim picture to a finished image is combining many bad pictures to make one good one," writes Evan Gomez-Shwartz. In the latest installment of his series on ...

If you walk into the FAAS office space, the first thing you’ll likely see is a curious little snout peeking over the barn door. That’s Lexi, our current supervisor! Photos by FAAS. At three years old, ...

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In Episode 192, Scott Piehler’s topics include: City Council addresses police statistics and the homeless issue. A preview of next week’s Planning Board meeting. AUSD averts a strike. Our Naval ...

There are many opportunities available around our community for those with some extra time and civic spirit. You can get involved by contacting one of the organizations listed below to volunteer your ...

The Online Archive of California (OAC) tells us that Jacob Knell, H. Millemann, and John Reinhart founded the San Francisco Schuetzen Verein (Marksman Association) in August 1859 as a militia and ...

For hundreds of years, ships and boats of all sizes had plied the waters of the San Antonio Slough, a tidal creek that we know as the Oakland Estuary. The Ohlone used the waterway not solely for ...

At its meeting on Tuesday, December 9, the Alameda Unified School District (AUSD) Board of Education reviewed the First Interim Budget report, which provided an overview of the district’s financial ...

In Part 1 of this story, we began exploring Emilie Gibbons Cohen’s letter to her daughter Edith, which vividly describes her experiences in the great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. This ...

On a beautiful fall evening in Alameda, 110 years after a Japanese immigrant community first formed here around 1912, a crowd gathered to pay homage to those early pioneers who created a Tonarigumi, ...

Signs of progress on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient clinic and cemetery project recently appeared on its Alameda Point property. Steel drums marked “Non-Hazardous ...

You better lace your shoes tight! This weekend in Alameda, check off your holiday gift lists with Small Business Saturday at brick and mortar stores, plus a multitude of holiday markets. The fun ...