A Rare Treat These Days Underscoring The Importance Of Arts Education Lincoln Middle School in Alameda represents a rarity in schools these days, with its ongoing, decades long music program marching band tradition. The band’s time honored performance on Alameda’s “Christmas Tree Lane,” the festive block of Thompson Avenue, took to the streets, or more specifically to a front yard, for its annual performance at the site. This video gives a glimpse into the program, some logistics of a foot… [READ MORE].
Monthly Archives: December 2023
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City’s “Traffic Calming & Bikeways Project” Rolls Forward As Locals Provide Input By Larry Freeman A sizeable group of around seventy adults and two young children who worked at a coloring table, responded to a deep, data based traffic safety presentation at Edison School’s Multi Purpose Room on the evening of November 4th. While Monday Night Football and typical dinner time routines captured the attention of many that night, residents, city staff, members of the traffic study firm Parametrix Engineering… [READ MORE].
Teen Center Key Part Of Club’s Teen Education Program By Ana, 13 As a thirteen year old member of the Alameda Boys & Girls Club, I have had the good fortune to have a place with my friends to finish our homework and collaborate on class projects. But there is also more learning to be had for us teens. We are able to chat with friends for real, face to face personal connecting and get advice and guidance from the… [READ MORE].
City Seeks Public Input For “Traffic Calming & Bikeways Project” In the wake of multiple, ongoing neighborhood concerns about dangerous, speeding drivers who ignore stop signs, blow through bike lanes and endanger pedestrians in crosswalks on Fernside Boulevard, The City Of Alameda will host a Community “Traffic Calming” Workshop at Edison School’s Multipurpose room on Monday 12/4 at 7:15 pm. The forum is designed to gather public feedback and input on “The Active Transportation Plan,” adopted about a year ago,… [READ MORE].
An Estimated Hundred People Turn Out To Support Humanitarian And Political Causes A peaceable assembly, calling primarily for an end to the bloodshed in The Gaza Strip and a permanent cease fire in the wake of the recent Hamas Israel war, brought together about 100 people in the plaza in front of Alameda’s City Hall on the evening of Sunday, November 26th. The vigil’s overarching goals coincided with diplomatic efforts by Qatar, Egypt and The United States to extend the… [READ MORE].