Natalie Carti is a three-time varsity letterwinner (2010, ’11, ’12) and will play her final season at Indian Hills High School (Oakland, N.J.) this spring. She has tallied 212 goals and 172 assists in three seasons as an attacker for the Braves. With a total of 384 career points, she […]
What Does New Years Mean to You? By Veronica MacDonald Ditko An Accidental Anthropologist Many New Year’s traditions are about banishing bad spirits for an entire year. Whether it’s a Sicilian custom of having the darkest-haired person run from the back door to the front at midnight, or Mexican custom […]
On December 13th, 2012 I shipped 6 wrapped Christmas gifts from the Oakland post office to my sister in Las Vegas. They were shipped parcel post, using a single USPS box I purchased there. A postal employee taped the box up in front of me. I wrote “Do Not Open […]
Prior to voting on the new Oakland Public Events Committee Ordinance Councilwoman Coira asked if it were possible to start a second trust fund which would be dedicated solely to the wishes of the committee members rather than having them adhere to the strict limitations of the present PEC Trust […]
Wow…what a year 2012 has been. It seems as if it was only a few weeks ago that I was with my dad’s side of the family in PA in their basement, huddled around the television watching the ball drop hoping that 2012 was going to be a great year. […]
The presentation, at the December 19th Mayor and Council meeting, was to announce that the group would like to hold town hall meetings and get Oakland residents’ input; the dates of the town hall meetings will be forthcoming, hopefully as early as January.
