5.6.2010
on May 6, 2010
The long-awaited 12th Street reconstruction project along Lake Merritt officially begins today with a groundbreaking ceremony at 2 p.m. across from 1200 Lakeshore Ave. The project, which is expected to take two years, will move the road away from the lake and create new parkland along the shoreline.
The city will host two identical community workshops this afternoon and evening to provide an overview of its Draft Energy and Climate Action Plan. The meetings, from 3 to 5p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m., will both take place at the Elihu M Harris State Building, 1515 Clay St, in Oakland. More info here.
Friends of Oakland Parks and Recreation is holding its Taste of Spring Fundraiser tonight from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Rotunda Building, 300 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, in Oakland. Tickets and more information are available here.
Oakland North welcomes comments from our readers, but we ask users to keep all discussion civil and on-topic. Comments post automatically without review from our staff, but we reserve the right to delete material that is libelous, a personal attack, or spam. We request that commenters consistently use the same login name. Comments from the same user posted under multiple aliases may be deleted. Oakland North assumes no liability for comments posted to the site and no endorsement is implied; commenters are solely responsible for their own content.
Oakland North
Oakland North is an online news service produced by students at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and covering Oakland, California. Our goals are to improve local coverage, innovate with digital media, and listen to you–about the issues that concern you and the reporting you’d like to see in your community. Please send news tips to: oaklandnorthstaff@gmail.com.
