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Mills and the MacArthur Corridor
Nancy MacKay'
Have you ever been curious about Laurel Elementary School in the '50s? Retired Oakland History librarian Bill Sturm can tell you all about it. He graduated from sixth grade in 1958. How about the groove of the Boulevard before I-580? Acme Music Store owner Jay Rose can tell you that.
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Get Organized. Join Your NCPC
Did you resolve to be more organized this year? Do you have ideas for civic improvement, building community, ending violence? Here's your chance. At a community meeting on November 28, 2007, Oakland Police Department (OPD) announced a new config.
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On the Road to Success: Rettig Avenue
Hugo Evans
On a dark, cold night in late November, over 70 residents crammed into the Redwood Heights Rec Center preschool room and poured into the doorways and halls. This astounding cast was there for one thing: to participate in the discussion about the future of Rettig Avenue.
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Back From Extinction " a Women's Bar Emerges in the Laurel
Meredith Florian
Back in the disco days women's bars flourished in the Bay Area, but now you are as likely to encounter one as see a woolly mammoth on MacArthur. So why would a regular guy, like Maxwell Park native Bob Huff, open a women's bar in the Laurel? .
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