Maxwell Park Neighborhood News
Sarah Hipolito
Maxwell Park Gateway: Envisioning Successful CollaborationYou're driving on Highway 580, returning home from Hayward or Berkeley.

Friends of Sausal Creek
Ten Years of Protecting the Sausal Creek Watershed

Sara Marcellino, Executive Director, Friends of Sausal Creek
Ten years ago, Dimond Park was an unsavory place, and Sausal Creek looked more like adrainage ditch than the open, healthy creek it is today.

Leona Heights Neighborhood News
Gordon Laverty
The Laurel/Redwood/Leona Heights Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) met on Thursday, February 8, at the Oakland City Council District 4 office of Jean...

Dimond Neighborhood News
Daniel Swafford
Alliance for McKillop SlideThe slow, heart-wrenching movement of the earth on the 2500 block of McKillop Road has recently claimed one home, condemned three...

Laurel Neighborhood News
Kathleen Rolinson
Former Laurel Theater For SaleAfter 11 years in the Laurel, Victory Outreach Church has outgrown its home in the former Laurel Theater building at 3814...

Redwood Heights Neighborhood News
Denise Davila
Lincoln SquareA new building has been approved for development in Lincoln Square on Redwood Road. The 5,000-square-foot addition is planned for the vacant site...

High Street Neighborhood News
Adelle Foley
A Tale of Two SchoolsIt seems to me that Oakland can't succeed without improving its schools. Without good schools, we can't attract and retain the families our ...

Boulevard Bites
Sheila D'Amico
### At Council president Ignacio De La Fuente's District 5 community breakfast, he urged about 150 neighborhood representatives to "all collectively push our city ...

Onions & Orchids
Debbie Francis
To our readers: If you know of a neighbor in our community whose behavior is worthy of note, either good or bad, please contact me at psych7045\@sbcglobal.net.

Trailing MacArthur Boulevard: Spanish Explorers in the Hood
Nina Egert, Ph.D.
Imagine Oakland a vast savannah of spring-green grass and wildflowers. Through these grasslands, trout-filled creeks tumble from oak-forested canyons in the hills ...

Volunteer for the Metro
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Support the Metro: Money Honeys and Friends NeededThe MacArthur Metro is a not-for-profit community newspaper. We distribute 7,000 print copies and publish the...

The Unity of Copyediting
A Behind-the-Scenes Visit with Anne Fox

Meredith Florian
Do you ever wonder what makes the Metro such a succinct, literate news-paper? Well, here's one reason: the precise, acute eyes and ears of Anne Fox, a seasoned...

Boston Violence Prevention Model
Sheila D'Amico
Almost 200 people filled Imani Church on Valentine's Eve to hear representatives from Boston present their youth violence prevention model.

Keith Carson
Madeline Smith Moore
What does the Alameda County Board of Supervisors do for us that our City Council does not? The president of that board, Keith Carson, spent an informative hour...

To Your Health
Colorectal Cancer Awareness

Paulette Avery RN, MSN
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S., and March isColorectal Cancer Awareness Month.