On Monday afternoon the Oakland Police Department issued a community alert regarding a series of robberies in East and North Oakland that have occurred after victims responded to phony craigslist ads offering vehicles for sale.
Community events and activities for the weekend of December 24-26. Got an event we didn’t know about? Please add it in the comments!
Oakland North is continuing with our new feature. Every Wednesday, we will publish a photo submitted by one of our readers–except this week’s photo is actually by one of Oakland North’s reporters, Dara Kerr.
Oakland North is continuing with our new feature. Every Tuesday, Oakland Animal Services will spotlight an “Animal of the Week” that’s up for adoption at their facility. This week it’s Myla the bunny.
When I was six years old—in 1953 I am sorry to report—there was no room in the Catholic schools in Alameda for me and so I went to Saint Francis De Sales in Oakland. That school is long gone and the world I lived in even more so.
Despite the gloomy weather, Bay Area skywatchers will be eagerly awaiting tonight’s total lunar eclipse, which falls on the northern winter solstice—the moment at which the Earth’s axis is tilted farthest from the sun, giving us our shortest day and longest night of the year, and heralding the first day of winter. According to NASA Science News, there’s only been one other lunar eclipse on the northern winter solstice in the last 2,000 years … and that one was back in 1638.
In this audio report from KQED Radio’s Health Dialogues series, April Dembosky looks at the impact of violence on the lives of young people in Oakland, and the programs that are helping them cope.
Community events and activities for the weekend of December 17 – 19. Got an event we didn’t know about? Please add it in the comments!
This chili recipe comes to us from one of the chilliest states in the union: Minnesota. Transportation reporter Ted Trautman tells us it serves five for one dinner or one hungry (and broke) graduate student for a whole week. Got a great bread recipe to go with it? Email it to lillian.mongeau@oaklandnorth.net; Subject: RECIPE.
Oakland North is continuing with our new feature. Every Wednesday, we will publish a photo submitted by one of our readers. This week’s photo is by Alisha Marie Ragland.
Oakland North is continuing with our new feature. Every Tuesday, Oakland Animal Services will spotlight an “Animal of the Week” that’s up for adoption at their facility. This week it’s Shania the cat.
This is leaf season. It is also leaf blower season. These noisy and polluting gardening tools are increasing in number in our city every day.