Community

Community photo of the week: Mayor receives gift from students

Oakland North is continuing with our feature. Every Wednesday, we will publish a photo submitted by one of our readers. This week’s photo is by Timothy Chapman. At the District 4 Town Hall meeting May 14, students Liliana Herera and Mario Aldrete, and director Elena Bermeo of the Allendale Recreation Center’s Young Entrepreneur Project, present Mayor Jean Quan with a silk screened bag Herera and Aldrete made at the center. For more photos of the event, go here. If you’d…

Adoptable animal of the week: Madison

Oakland North is continuing with our 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 Madison: Madison is a friendly, two year-old cat that loves people. She’s sweet and petite and likes being held. Madison doesn’t seem too fond of other cats, but she may be cat tolerant with a slow introduction. Please consider giving Madison a home. For more photos of her, click here. Visit Oakland Animal…

IS THERE A MONSTER IN LAKE MERRITT? SCIENTIST SAYS YES!

Few know what lurks the depths of the murky, brackish, crustacean-filled Lake Merritt. Few know what beastly beast, what cryptid, what leviathan, what man-eating monster could be swimming below, slithering through those fetid waters. Few know… but many have seen.