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Abantey, the role-playing world Becky Thomas has developed over the course of 25 years, was never meant to be just a game—it was always meant to be a learning and team-building exercise through which young students could apply the ideas they learned in school.
Police officers, firefighters, emergency medical officers, and law enforcement personnel of all types are honored at a Blue Mass, during which community members and faith leaders can offer thanks to the people responsible for public safety and remember those who have lost their lives in the line of duty.
At a workshop hosted by the city on Thursday, Oakland residents expressed mixed reactions to the city’s latest waterfront development plans.
Taking math class online, designing video games, working with NASA scientists to launch experiments in space—these are things students at the Urban Promise Academy (UPA) can do with the 210 laptops the Oakland Unified School District provided for the school this year.
Members of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders took some time to befriend and pass on gifts to female cancer patients as part of October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The Oakland Police Department that the reward for information relating to a 2009 homicide case has more than doubled to $25,000.
17-year-old Sophie Elkin, named Oakland’s 3rd Youth Poet Laureate in August, writes about what she knows: the grit and grandeur of Oakland’s people and places and the less tangible but no less real world of adolescence. After a childhood struggling to come out to herself and her parents, Sophie hopes her poetry will help other women to find their voices the way she has.
Church members and neighbors gathered at Skyline Community Church to honor their pets with an annual and unusual gift: a blessing.
Mayoral candidate Joe Tuman joined local business owners and residents to voice support for reducing parking meter costs and parking fines in Oakland.