March 5, 2010

Northgate Community Center offers a twist on the Old West this weekend with a performance by children’s singer-songwriter Eric Ode. This month’s Concerts for Kids event features the four-time Parents’ Choice Awards winner, who is sure to get kids on their feet with his upbeat, high-participation music and poetry concert. Ode’s free performance Saturday, which begins

March 4, 2010

The final head count for Monday night’s Youth and Families Initiative meeting for the north end exceeds 260. And not a person lacked opinions, judging from the city’s report on the gathering. Mayor Mike McGinn and former Mayor Norm Rice were among the speakers at Northgate Elementary School, which hosted the standing-room only event. But

March 4, 2010

The final head count for Monday night’s Youth and Families Initiative meeting for the north end exceeds 260. And not a person lacked opinions, judging from the city’s report on the gathering. Mayor Mike McGinn and former Mayor Norm Rice were among the speakers at Northgate Elementary School, which hosted the standing-room only event. But

March 4, 2010

Maybe we’ll never have anything quite like the Fremont Outdoor Movies, but Maple Leaf resident Philip Borgnes hopes we can at least have one outdoor movie a year as part of the Maple Leaf Summer Social. At last year’s annual community event, he says he gathered more than 200 signatures from neighbors who said they

March 3, 2010

Officials may have arrested the “F-Bomb Bandit” who robbed an Alaska USA Federal Credit Union here last week. “I’ve got good news. Just two minutes ago I got a message the FBI has caught her,” Dan McCue, senior vice-president for corporate administration at the credit union headquarters, said Wednesday afternoon. Not so fast, the local