patching...
Welcome back, Patch Blogger!
Sunny
54° F Hi:69  Lo:45
 

Announcements

Showing 1-10 of 320 announcements

Awareness

JCC Rockland Jake Talks: Teen Internet Talk Show

Calling Teens Everywhere!  Discover YOUR Teen Talk Show, Jake Talks  which goes Live Mondays at 5pm on www.rocklandworldradio.com.  Find out “Who is in the Hot Tub”,  learn the hottest teen issues in our “All About Nothing” segment, and send your “Teens in A Pickle’ letters to cathiei@jccrockland.…

Social Notes

Berkeley High Golden Girls Reunion Set for March 28

Invitations are in the mail for the 15th annual Berkeley High School Red and Golden Girls reunion luncheon to be held on Wednesday, March 28 at Skates on the Bay at the Berkeley Marina.  The affair is open to any woman who graduated from Berkeley High School fifty or more years ago.  For more …

Promotions

H&R Block Dollars & Sense Helps Teens Become Financially Fit

Imagine if teenagers controlled their families’ finances. Would they know how to spend and save money wisely? Or would they max out every credit card? It’s hard to know, but with 50 percent of high school seniors failing when tested on basic personal finance1, it’s not a gamble many parents would …

Awareness

Great Lemonade War Challenges Schools to Mix Reading with Service

The Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s Publishing Group will partner with Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) on a unique fundraising campaign based on Jacqueline Davies’ novel, The Lemonade War. Elementary and middle school students, using the business tips woven into Davies’ novel, will run…

Volunteers Needed

Volunteer Facilitator-Promoting Gender Respect

Promoting Gender Respect-PGR: -At its core, this program is about shifts- in the youth, in adult allies, and in the larger community. It’s about shifting the perspectives of the youth in what options they have and empowering them to choose while being accountable to one another and their …

Contra Costa LAFCO Public Member Announcement

Government

Contra Costa LAFCO Seeks Public Members

The Contra Costa Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) is currently accepting applications for the Regular and Alternate Public Member seats, both for four-year terms ending in May 2016. For further information see the attached PDF.

Government

EC Chamber of Commerce Presents Mayor Bill Jones

Mayor Bill Jones to Present State of the City address at the El Cerrito Chamber of Commerce Monthly Meeting on February 15th at noon. Judith Pope and the Board of Directors of the El Cerrito Chamber of Commerce invite you to the Monthly meeting of the Chamber at The Mira vista Country Club, 7901 …

Social Notes

Pinkalicious, The Musical

PINKALICIOUS THE MUSICAL Opens Saturday, 2/11 The Bay Area Children’s Theatre’s production of PINKALICIOUS, THE MUSICAL, opens Saturday, February 11, at 2 p.m. at the Freight & Salvage, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley.  This glittering stage adaptation of the best-selling children’s book, …

New Head of School Press Release

Local Connections

MONTESSORI FAMILY SCHOOL ANNOUNCES NEW HEAD OF SCHOOL

The Board of Directors of Montessori Family School has selected Henry R. Trevor to succeed founder Jane Wechsler as Head of School upon her retirement. Mr. Trevor will formally begin his duties in July 2012 for the 2012-2013 school year. Montessori Family School has been serving East Bay families …

Open House: Changes Planned for Traffic, Safety on San Pablo, I-80

Government

Open House: Changes Planned for Traffic, Safety on San Pablo, I-80

  • Feb 7, 2012

ALAMEDA/CONTRA COSTA COUNTIES - The public is invited to learn about innovative congestion relief and safety improvements to be implemented in the next two years along the Interstate 80 (I-80) corridor in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. The corridor includes I-80 from the I-80/580/880 …

Add an Announcement
 
 

PSST! Want to Contribute?

  • Got a hot tip on news you think everyone should know? Tell us.
  • Just married? New baby? Make honor roll? Add an Announcement
  • Organizing that big block party or poetry reading? Put it on the calendar!
  • Have a great photo of your community?
    Add it to Your Neighborhood Gallery.