Cherryland News

San Lorenzo and Cherryland homeowners are shocked that they soon will be paying as much as $1,500 a year for flood insurance they didn't realize they needed.

If the concerned 911 caller had recognized that Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates was not a burglar but was only trying to get into his own locked house, the recent uproar involving Gates and Cambridge police Sgt.

J.D. Nelson. A deputy and his police dog were briefly hospitalized due to the incident, but have been released.

The crowd attending Wednesday night's forum on medical marijuana didn't seem satisfied with proposed changes to Alameda County's marijuana ordinance.

Got some extra money lying around? Property owners in communities surrounding the San Lorenzo Creek Watershed may need extra cash when new flood insurance rate maps become effective Aug.

Exposure. That's what officials are hoping to provide small-business owners during a mid-county business fair to be held Tuesday.

A woman was struck and killed by a Capitol Corridor train Thursday afternoon in unincorporated Hayward, apparently when she was pulled into the path of the train by a dog she was walking.

A woman in her mid-30s to early 40s and her dog were hit and killed by a train shortly after 2:15 p.m. today on Blossom Way between Meekland and Times avenues in the unincorporated area of Cherryland.

Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi, D-Hayward, has introduced state legislation intended to let voters in the greater Hayward area decide whether San Leandro Hospital and its emergency room can be sold or transferred to another owner.

While June is the end of the regular school year, it's the start of seminar and workshop season for businesses interested in surviving the current economic downturn and learning about ongoing private investments in suburban San Leandro.

The financial hits keep on coming for cities such as San Leandro and Hayward, and for Alameda County.

Arlene Nehring and Stephanie Spencer exchange rings during a wedding ceremony at the Eden United Church of Christ Saturday October 11, 2008 in the unincorporated Cherryland section of Hayward, Calif.