Update on Union Activity at Farmer Joe’s
Daniel Swafford
Debate over the procedure by which about 90 employees will determine their preference about union representation at Farmer Joe’s Marketplace locations in Laurel and Dimond is now entering its eighth month.

The End of the “Fifth Season”
Patricia Bacchetti, Friends of Sausal Creek Board member
My heartbeat quickens as we begin to sense the end of the “Fifth Season,” as Judith Larner Lowry so poetically calls August through October in Gardening with...

Redwood Heights Neighborhood News
Denise Davila
Neighborhood Association Annual Meeting The RHNA annual meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 7 p.m. at the Redwood Heights School Auditorium.

Laurel Neighborhood News
John Frando and Kathleen Rolinson
Laurel Elementary Shows Its Colors From the corner of Brown and Kansas, the Laurel school Lion mascot roars his message to students and the community.

High Street Neighborhood News
Adelle Foley
Tutor at Melrose Branch When the longstanding PASS homework program was discontinued at the end of the last school year, we’d heard that another program...

Maxwell Park Neighborhood News
Sarah Hipolito
Natives in the Neighborhood It started innocently enough, a Saturday meeting of the Maxwell Park garden club at the home of Jane Stallman.

Leona Heights Neighborhood News
Gordon Laverty
Isn’t it great to live in such a historic neighborhood? An ad in a 1927 edition of the Oakland Tribune urges Oaklanders to “Own your own chicken ranch in the ...

Dimond Neighborhood News
Daniel Swafford
Dimond Business Futures With crowds gathering at Peet’s, shopping at Farmer Joe’s, and anticipating French baking at La Farine, one can get the impression,...

Voluntary Homeowner Seismic Safety Initiative
John Frando
Just after 5 p.m. on October 17, 1989, Laurel resident Libby Jacobsohn was at home when a magnitude 7.1 earthquake, centered over 70 miles away near Loma Prieta...

Letters to the Editor
While I do not live on Rettig Avenue, I have been jogging up the street three times a week for more than 20 years, except for times in the past year when work on ...

Editorial
Sheila D'Amico
It’s been a year now since editor Toni Locke retired from her long-time volunteer position. When she did, she passed down the MacArthur Metro files and paper...

Lives Change with a Summer of Art, Science, and Service
Karly Zimmerman
“A spa for the brain.” That’s how one 15-year-old girl described her experience in SASS (Summer of Art, Science and Service), a unique new summer program ...

Boulevard Bites
Deborah Francis and Sheila D'Amico
### Ruth Villasenor of Paws and Claws mentioned that business activity at the new Farmer Joe’s and Peet’s in the Dimond is not translating up the street and...

To Your Health
Paulette Avery, R.N., M.S.N., I.B.C.L.C.
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness October is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Month. Annually, about 2,500 infants between the ages of one month and...