AC Transit Redrawing Its Bus Routes New 89 line to replace the 55 route to west SL

Facing a budget deficit of over $50 million, AC Transit has proposed cutting and combining several of its East Bay bus routes.
The changes would affect nearly 100 bus routes, with some reduced to running just during heavy commute times, others discontinued altogether. But some new routes will be created to combine the lines that are [...]

Schools, City Divided Over Crossing Guards

The city and school board met last week to hammer out a solution to the crossing guard problem, but so far, no permanent fix has been found.
The 13 crossing guards in San Leandro were laid off due to city budget cuts. The City of San Leandro maintained that it doesn’t have the money to keep [...]

The Coast Is Clear… At Least for Now

Cleaning up litter on the beach is like swimming against the tide, a never-ending battle against the forces of the crazy consumer culture that keeps cranking out the clutter.
But that doesn’t stop the determined.
People fanned out along San Leandro’s shoreline on Saturday and got their toes wet as part of the 25th annual Coastal Cleanup [...]

School Crossing Guards Axed

San Leandro students and teachers are all back to school, but the city’s crossing guards are absent.
The City of San Leandro says it can no longer afford to pay for the guards, and parents and teachers have volunteered to step in temporarily, but no permanent solution is on the horizon. Among the cuts in the [...]

September 11 Remembered

St. Felicitas Catholic School hosted a Patriot Day service last Friday on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania.
Many of the school’s students were not even born when the twin towers fell eight years ago, but they all stood solemnly wearing red, white, and blue during [...]

Assumption Kids Set Up Computers

Volunteer students from Assumption School in San Leandro recently lent a hand at another East Bay Catholic school by helping set up a computer lab at St. Cornelius School in Richmond.
Armed with their technological know-how, alumni Niko Wells and Dennis Retallick, and current Assumption seventh graders Drew Retallick and Alan Ralph gave up part of [...]

Charter School Shuts Down Neighborhood Footbridge

Barrett Bridge — the footbridge that crosses over the San Lorenzo Creek and connects Washington Manor with San Lorenzo — has been closed. The county-owned footbridge still stands, but the property owners on the San Lorenzo side have fenced in their land, creating a dead end. This blocks a thoroughfare used by many in the Washington [...]

Hospital Backers Turn Out

Senator Ellen Corbett hosted a town hall meeting about the future of San Leandro Hospital at the Main Library last week and it tuned out to be quite a pep rally.  The crowd — firmly in favor of keeping the hospital running as it is, with full emergency room services — regularly broke into applause [...]

Surprise Guests Visit Day Care Center

The Animal Guy didn’t know why the kids were screaming and pointing. He looked around. He didn’t see anything wrong.  Then he noticed what all the commotion was about. Oh yeah, that giant lizard had gotten out of his box and was climbing up his back. Read more