Meet Election Candidates: Ron Rosenbaum for Albany School Board

Incumbent candidate  for Albany School Board  Ron Rosenbaum held a campaign sign at Solano Stroll parade. Rosenbaum is well-known in the community as a former principal of Albany High School and an Albany resident for more than three decades. He wrote the following message addressed to Albany voters:  

Meet Election Candidates: Patricia Low for Albany School Board

Patricia Low is running for Albany School Board against John Kindle and incumbent Ron Rosenbaum . The three candidates are competing for two seats at the school board. Photo by Linda (Linjun) Fan.

Patricia Low traced her decision to run for Albany School Board back to her kindergarten year.  When she was a kindergartner in San Francisco Chinatown in the 1960s, boys and girls were separated in the school yard.

Meet the Candidates: Special Coverage on 2008 Albany Elections

With elections less than two months away, Albany City Council and School Board candidates are busy passing out flyers and putting up signs. You might have seen several of them parading at the Solano Stroll Sunday. Who are the candidates? What are their campaign goals? Why are they running for office? How are they going to address various issues of concern to the community?

Albany Today is trying to help you find out the answers by putting forward Meet the Candidates, a special coverage on the local elections. Each candidate has been invited to write an article and record a video speech addressed to Albany voters, which will be published on Albany Today in the following days. Please read their articles, watch their speech, and feel free to write comments under the posts.

Albany’s Biggest Street Fair: 2008 Solano Stroll

Did you take a stroll on Solano Avenue yesterday? Did you see faces familiar, faces new, and faces  smiling everywhere? Watch the slideshow below on Albany’s biggest street fair, and share with us your strolling stories.

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Preliminary hearing on Sorg’s case will be held in October

By Linda (Linjun) Fan

A preliminary hearing on Albany teacher Kay Sorg’s case will be held on Oct. 14, according to Greg Dolge, Deputy District Attorney of Alameda County.

Several hearings scheduled in recent months had been canceled. The Superior Court of Alameda County has not ruled on whether testimony of “sexually explicit” letters from the defendant to the alleged victim could be accepted as evidence.

Four cars collide on Dartmouth Street of Albany

Four cars collided on Dartmouth St. of Albany Sunday. Photo by Linda (Linjun) Fan

A black Prius ran into a Toyota 4Runner at the crossing of Dartmouth Street and Evelyn Avenue Sunday, crashing into two other cars parked near the intersection. No person suffered major injuries but the vehicles were heavily damaged.

Albany school board meetings will be broadcast live

According to the Superintendent’s Office of Albany Unified School District, meetings of the Board of Education of  the school district will be broadcast live on Cable Channel 33, and webcasted on the new Web site of the City of Albany from July 15. The meetings will be held at the Albany Community Center, 1249 Marin Avenue, from then on. 

Community Events: Support Albany High School Library

The Albany High School will hold a fundraising book fair at the Barnes and Noble Bookstore in El Cerrito Plaza Sunday, June 8th.  You can also donate a book to the library if you want to help it directly.  Click here to see the wish list and contact librarian Rosalie Gonzales at (510) 558-2528 or email her at  rosgonza@albany.k12.ca.us

Albany Today goes on summer break

 Dear Readers,

As you are reading this post, I am on my way to Beijing for my summer internship. I am excited at the trip because I will have a chance to report on the Olympic Games and also see my family.

Albany parents split over staggered reading program

 

Parents and teachers lined up to speak on the staggered reading program of Albany Unified School District at a meeting last Tuesday. Photo by Linda (Linjun) Fan.

Dozens of parents and teachers spoken passionately on the staggered reading program of Albany Unified School District at a recent board meeting. About half of them sharply challenged the program while the other half stoutly supported it.

Karen Nierlich: my children led me into the world of photography

Albany artist Karen Nierlich smiled at her photo show “Fragile and Resilient”at Albany Art Gallery. Nierlich wrote an article below about how her children helped her to enter the fascinating world of photography. Photo by Linda(Linjun) Fan.

As they say “kids change everything”. When I had my second child, one change I made was switching from painting to photography. I’d been a painter for 20 years, but now as a parent with two kids, I found I had little time for the solitary and intensive pursuit of painting.

Albany softball team crowned NCS champion

Albany Softball Team celebrated its NCS title Saturday at Levine-Fricke Field. Photo by Ned Purdom. Article by Rashad Alaiyan.

Albany Softball Team was crowned NCS champion after winning a tight match against its opponent from Concord High School at Levine-Fricke Field Saturday.

Albany high schooler wrestles with hard life choices

Taylor Raphael, an Albany high schooler, had walked through a turbulent journey in the past year, battling against drug addiction and winning wrestling matches. Photo by Linda (Linjun) Fan.

Taylor Raphael stood tall on the awarding podium of Newark Memorial High School Gym, smiling at flashing cameras and cheering audience. He had won fourth place in the North Coast Section Championship and would be the only Albany wrestler to compete in the state wrestling championship. Few in the the applauding crowd knew about the turbulent journey he had taken to be there.

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It was an afternoon in springtime, 2001. School was over. Taylor and another boy at Albany Middle School crept into a deserted concrete tunnel near the school. The boy, a seventh grader, a year older than Taylor, asked Taylor whether he would like to try some weed.

Albany Softball Team competes for NCS champion

Freshman Meagan Tokunaga at Albany High School rips a pitch to left in a softball game Wednesday. Her team has won three games this week and will compete for NCS champion Saturday. Photo by Daryn Singh. Article by Rashad Alaiyan.

Led by an outstanding performance by sophomore pitcher Sara Muse, the Albany Cougars defeated the Las Lomas Knights in a close second-round NCS softball game Wednesday.

Albany High School seniors reflect on college application experience

Ian Allen, a senior at Albany High School, will be attending Columbia University in the fall. Several hundred students will soon graduate from the school and go to various colleges across the country. Photo by Linda (Linjun) Fan.

Madeleine Miller-Bottome, another senior of the school, talked to Ian and several other students on their college application experiences and wrote the following story.