As I start my sixth year as the roving reporter for the Bear’s-Eye View of Alameda and celebrate my fifth Gotcha Day, I am filled with such incredible gratitude for all the things I have in my life. I ...

In 2018, a play, Words That Made the Difference: Brown v Board of Education, was created. Its purpose was to highlight, during a challenging time, the courage that many took to stand up for justice ...

Sally Faulhaber of Alameda has passed away at the age of 96. An engaged citizen with a deep interest in her community, social justice, and nature, she was active until her last days, and was kind and ...

At the urging of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board (Water Board) in 2021, Chevron agreed to return to Alameda Point and clean up the tar waste left behind when its refinery ...

After years of the current policy not producing the desired pace of building new infrastructure at Alameda Point, the City of Alameda may change its focus from leasing to selling property. Four ...

American wigeons winter in the protected Bay waters and in the freshwater ponds of Alameda and throughout the East Bay. Photo by Rick Lewis. While we can see ducks throughout the year in Alameda, some ...

Over the past four installments of this series on the unique house at 1724 Santa Clara Avenue, we’ve traced its earliest history back to 1891 when retired dentist and pharmacologist David Greenleaf ...

Edited from an original photo courtesy of Jeff Smith. Please note that the illustrations of Frosty’s shapes are not to scale. Ignoring the hats, eyes, etc., find Frosty’s new surface area as a cube.

This past month in our Happiness Project, our fourth- and fifth-grade class at Love Elementary focused on something extremely important for happiness—social connections. After learning about kindness, ...

East Bay parents will be pleased to know that Chabot Space & Science Center is planning another festive annual Balloon Drop. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the family- and bedtime-friendly ...

Over the years, harbor seal observers on the former Alameda Point Harbor Seal Monitors Facebook page often asked, “Do we need another harbor seal float?” It appears that the seals have provided their ...

Sharp-tailed sandpiper, a rare visitor to the East Bay, walking at the edge of the water at Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary. Photo by Jeff Manker. A few days after I moved to Alameda, I set out on an ...