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“Hello, sir. What do you need today?” Braunz Courtney says with a welcoming smile, standing comfortably behind a buffet of sterile syringes and pipes.
“I need some medium sharps,” his client Vernon, 64, responds.
12 recent graduates of San Jose State University’s Master of Fine Arts program participated in the “Minted” exhibit, which opened at Pro Arts Gallery in downtown Oakland on September 2.
With the recent closure of Oakland’s 74-year-old Lions Center for the Blind, clients and staff alike are wondering how to move forward.
A new program from the Oakland Public Library is helping bridge the tech divide by providing free internet at home for Oakland’s young and old.
Savannah O’Neil says, for her, knowing someone who has battled an opioid addiction started with a family member. Most recently, she says, one of her friends had a stint at sobriety, but fatally overdosed on a combination of prescription opioids and benzodiazepine.
The talent recruiters at the Oakland Unified School District worked around the clock this summer to make sure all students in Oakland would have a teacher waiting to welcome them back to school. They had to. Last year, students returned to find as many as 77 of their classrooms manned by an improvised crew of coaches and librarians as the district scrambled to fill the vacancies with credentialed teachers. This year, as of August 28, there were only three vacancies…
Oakland North is a project of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and now that it’s summer, our students are on break to work internships at other publications. We’ll be back to train a new class of student reporters in early September. If you like what we do at Oakland North, please consider donating to our Hyperlocal News Fund. You can learn more about us here. If you’ve found us over the summer, here are a few highlights from the coverage…
After four years of litigation, the U.S. Attorney’s office finally drops its case against Harborside Medical Cannabis Dispensary.
Launched on April 11 and to be held on the second Monday in every two months at Era Art Bar, the activity is welcome to all who want to try their hand at sketching.