Dimond Neighborhood News
Hoang Le Banh
A Leafier Business DistrictThanks to the patient and persistent work of DIA Boardmembers Jim Hill and Sam Cohen as well as the assistance of the City's Parks...

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Leona Heights Neighborhood News
By Gordon LavertyCome along on a Leona trolley ride back in 1900. Hear the clang of the trolley bell operated by the motorman's foot, feel yourself forced...

High Street Neighborhood News
Adelle Foley
Create a Mural and Build CommunityAbout 25 Maxwell Park community members ignored the warm sunshine and held a planning and brainstorming session for a mural.

Friends of Sausal Creek
The Sausal Creek Watershed

Eric R. Havel, Environmental Programs Instructor, Chabot Space & Science Center
What do Chabot Space and Science Center, Dimond Park, the Fruitvale and Dimondcommunities, and the Oakland Estuary have in common?

Boulevard Bites
Toni Locke
### The Laurel/Redwood Heights NCPC, chaired by Bobbie Bond, with aid from Renee Sykes of O.P.D., met in the District 4 Council rooms at Nationwide Insurance in...

The Cleanup Kid
Sheila D'Amico
When Cesar San Miguel was about to turn six, he told his parents that all he wanted for his birthday was a trash-pickup stick.

The Imperfect Gardener
Adina Sara
Spring FeverIt seems that the longer and wetter the winter, the harder spring fever hits. I contracted avirulent strain after the last heavy storm finally...

Orches
Madeline Smith Moore
Vicki Gunter and Peter Brown, founded Orches, a nonprofit group, in 1991 on the premise of "making movement a lifelong pleasure.

History Rushes Towards You at Rancho Peralta Historical Park
Meredith Florian
If you sit quietly by the creek, allowing your senses to be transported by the breeze throughan ancient oak or by the flight of a dragonfly, you might be able to ...

Shenanigans on the Boulevard
Shooting, Robbery at Hollywood Video

Dennis Evanosky
Just after midnight on Wednesday, March 3, three masked thugs showed up at HollywoodVideo, shot the security guard in the arm, and demanded entrance to the store.

Unity in Our Community
Livy Perez
Entering the charter school building, you must first pass a tall black gate at 6038 Brann St.You walk across the parking lot, bright orange cones at your side.

Burckhalter Neighbors News
Quarry Issues Settled

Maureen Dorsey, DVM
On March 11 the Leona Quarry lawsuit was settled in Superior Court. The settlementagreement was made between Maureen Dorsey, Burckhalter Neighbors, and Citizens...

To Your Health
Help! It's Allergy Season
By Paulette Avery, RN, MSNDoes the sight of trees and flowers in bloom bring you to tears, and not tears of joy, butrather dread of the misery of allergy...

Kasper's Friendly Hosts
Maryann Miller
The clock mounted to the gold- and orange-striped wallpaper says Time for Kasper's. I take a seat nearby, at the far end of the wooden counter, ordering only a...

Onions & Orchids
Peter Bond
Dear readers: This writer does search for individuals and businesses worthy of inclusion in this column, but he relies mostly on input from others.

Sequoia First Graders Meet the Worms
Sheila D'Amico
Imagine the scene. The Sequoia School students from Jackie Roth's first-grade class are being scientists. Quietly, seriously, they each peer through magnifying...

John Swett School Reunion Set for May 22
Gordon Laverty
With John Swett School set to close forever at the end of this semester, students, teachers and staff, and parents of the old school are planning a reunion on...