San Lorenzo News

Former San Leandro resident Matthew Hoy says he plans to sue San Leandro police over the shooting death of his girlfriend's dog on Memorial Day weekend.

Local resident Brenda Carr thought an April 22 community forum on medical marijuana was informative.

Two people were wounded in San Lorenzo Saturday night when a man fired a handgun into a crowd at a quinceanera party, officials said.

Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. - Corey Ford Dear Gary: My brother-in-law, Eddie, took his toy poodle, Chi Chi, into my backyard for a constitutional.

Health care workers at Tiburcio Vasquez Health Centers picketed in front of the Mission Boulevard clinic Wednesday during a one-day strike over the breakdown of union contract negotiations.

The Rev. Gerald Barron, who will replace the Rev. Michael Mahoney as pastor at Old Mission Santa Ines in August, said he knew as a teenager he was called to the priesthood, but didn't know which religious order to join.

A motorcyclist was killed Monday morning after he was thrown from his bike and landed underneath a big rig on Highway 238, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Summer does not take a vacation in San Leandro, especially when it comes to art, education, coffee with Mayor Tony Santos and paws-ing for a shoreline pet fair.

There was an emotional farewell to a California teacher of the year -- the "best of the best" being forced to leave her East Bay school.

After today's post about the possible closing of the Alameda's bridges, County Supervisor Alice Lai-Bitker sent out the following email: Third Supervisorial District - County of Alameda Representing the communities of Alameda, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, portions of Ashland, and the Chinatown and Fruitvale Areas of Oakland Alameda County Public Works ...

A small group of people attended a talk at the San Lorenzo Library last week that offered some timely advice for these troubled times.

It was a bittersweet moment last month when Samantha Terrasas, a first-year teacher at Bohannon Middle School, was named "Outstanding First-Year Teacher" by the San Lorenzo Unified School District.

The Honey Money E. Bay folks swarm to the urban bee guy and pay him dearly. No More 300 Club? Enjoy the Big Unit's big moment.

Lots of action as the year winds down. Pinole and Concord NCS softball playoff, Livermore and Foothill NCS Division I softball semifinal, Livermore and Freedom NCS Division I softball championship, Notre Dame and San Lorenzo CSS Division III softball playoff OAL track and field preliminaries, OAL track and field championships, NCS Meet of Champions ...

Developer David Bohannon helped to change the look of suburbia, starting with the Hillsdale area of San Mateo in 1939 and continuing with other Bay Area projects during World War II - including San Lorenzo Village, a planned community that his company began building in 1944.

While fate has not been kind to Tyler Flynn, he has been blessed with good friends at Calvary Lutheran School in San Lorenzo.

Edendale Middle School student Felice Luu has a way with the written word. The seventh-grader's writing skills were put to powerful effect in an award-winning essay about a car accident that she and her parents were lucky to survive.

A free screening of "Rivers of a Lost Coast," a documentary that looks at California's current salmon and steelhead crisis through the eyes of lifelong fly fishermen, is set for 7:45 p.m. Saturday at Sumner Auditorium on the Scripps campus at UCSD.

Seemingly nothing in life is free these days, not even seeing your child's graduation from high school.

The San Lorenzo Village will see a burst of life Saturday when a farmers market takes over the parking lot next to the old Mervyns building on Hesperian Boulevard.