Lucky to Become Maxx Value Foods
Sheila D'Amico
News that the Laurel Lucky will change to a Maxx Value Foods in March raised citizen concerns. Save Mart is the parent corporation of both stores. While the Laurel Lucky carries about 20,000 products, Maxx Value Foods carries about 5,000.

Maxwell Park Neighborhood News
Bryan Farley
Artist Daniel Camacho, his wife Robin Lovell, and their family moved into the Maxwell Park neighborhood in November 2001.

Dimond Neighborhood News
Carrie Campbell and Kathleen Russell
Disruptive Youth Activity in Dimond Business District This letter was recently sent to middle and high school principals in the area for communication to...

Laurel Neighborhood News
Renais Winter and Doug Stone
Precious Gem Found in the Heart of the Laurel You may have seen her, a lone avenger, removing graffiti from walls and street signs or picking up abandoned...

Mark Liebthal: Restoration Site Adopter and Crew Leader
Kimra McAfee, Friends of Sausal Creek (FOSC)
A few years ago, a bramble of blackberry and a tangle of ivy covered the creekside trail along Sausal Creek and El Centro Ave.

High Street Neighborhood News
Adelle Foley
Capture a Painted Chair at MLA’s Auction Melrose Leadership Academy is holding its first Uptown Auction to Save the Music on Saturday February 18 from 7:30 to...

Leona Heights Neighborhood
Larry Laverty
The birds are what caught my eye first, white cranes in flight, as I made my way to the gate at Oakland Airport. I was always in a hurry, coming or going, and...

Allendale Neighborhood News
Cheryl Golden
Neighborhood Valentine’s Day Party I Allendale Calling all families who love the neighborhood! Come out to the Neighborhood Valentine’s Day Party...

Support Our Local Businesses
Elizabeth Callaway
Here is a list of the locations and owners of new businesses in the Dimond and Laurel areas, since mid-summer 2011. Thanks to Tommy Wong of the Laurel District...

Volunteering: Good for You and Good for Others
Paulette Avery, RN, MSN, IBCLC
If you have ever experienced what is referred to as “helper’s high,” you know that helping others can make you feel very good.

Calling Fifth-Grade Writers
Are you a fifth grader who loves to write? Do you know a fifth-grade writer? The Berkeley (including Oakland) Branch of the California Writers Club (CWC) is...

Boulevard Bites
Sheila D'Amico
### Readers of the Leona Heights column may have noticed the new byline. Columnist Gordon Laverty has passed the pen to his son, Larry, who has been co-writing...

Sanjiv Handa
Mike Broad
Sanjiv Handa died in December 2011. Often described as a gadfly and sometimes dismissed by officials as a pest, Handa was an activist with a consuming interest in ...

Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I wonder if you would print my thank you to two men who helped me when my car died on the Fruitvale exit ramp on Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 5 p.

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