Oaklandnorth - oaklandnorth.net - Oakland North
General Information:
Latest News:
Annual StreetFest fills up Oakland’s Chinatown 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Oakland's 26th annual Chinatown StreetFest took over a few blocks of the city's downtown area this weekend, boasting booths with food from local restaurants, free health services and musical entertain...
Asian Health Services Opens New Clinic 15 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Last week, Asian Health Services (AHS) embarked on its largest capital project in the center’s history, the grand opening of an $11-million clinic in the heart of Oakland’s Chinatown, located at 835 W...
Friends and relatives remember Judy Salamon 12 Aug 2013 | 07:03 pm
Salamon, 66, was fatally shot while driving in front of the Home of Peace Cemetery, a 113-year-old Orthodox cemetery on the 2400 block of Fern Street in Oakland in the afternoon of July 24. For her li...
Oakland celebrates ‘National Night Out’ 8 Aug 2013 | 06:13 am
Residents came to shake hands, share food and build new friendships in their neighborhoods Tuesday night, banding together with their Neighborhood Watch Groups to host “National Night Out” block parti...
Getting away from it all at Massive 6 Aug 2013 | 11:41 pm
For a week in July, hundreds of people gather in a small community camping out creekside in the foothills of Placerville to get away from it all. Enlightenment seekers call it Massive, though the move...
Hundreds Mourn Loss of 8-Year-Old Alaysha Carradine 31 Jul 2013 | 06:58 am
More than 200 family, friends, and community members gathered on Tuesday at McNary-Williams-Jackson Mortuary to pay their respects to 8-year-old Alaysha “Ladybug” Carradine.
Friday Night Comes Alive in West Oakland 27 Jul 2013 | 12:43 am
Despite funding issues that have forced the West Oakland Youth Center to remain closed for now, last week the center’s staff kicked off Friday Night Live, a new series of community events that will ru...
City Council Votes Not to Censure Councilwoman Brooks 26 Jul 2013 | 08:16 pm
The Oakland City Council has voted not to censure District 6 councilmember Desley Brooks for allegedly interfering with the construction and operation of two recreation center projects in East Oakland...
Helping Moses Kamin: Too Little Too Late? 22 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm
An 11-year old Moses Kamin peers into the lens of his adoptive mother’s camera, clad in a bright yellow tank top, a faint smile below his dark brown buzz-cut. “He looks so different now,” said Steve ...
American Indian Model Schools to Remain Open 16 Jul 2013 | 05:30 am
Despite facing an FBI probe and losing its accreditation, American Indian Model Schools (AIMS), a nationally lauded charter school, will remain open at least until the end of the 2014 school year. On ...
