I just wanted to let you know how much I love your website. I live in Emeryville w/ my family and I look forward to each new post! It feels wonderful to have a “local paper” for my community.

Perhaps this is outside the scope of what you are interested in, but I am wondering if there is a way to include more from our schools/ young people on the website. For instance, when I was growing up there was a page dedicated to children in our hometown newspaper. (Updated weekly, I believe). It took submissions from children in the form of drawing, poems, stories, etc. It made kids more interested in reading the paper–they looked for their names and their submissions. Perhaps this sounds hokey, or hopelessly outdated, but those pages remain something that many of the folks I grew up with remember about our hometown paper.

As a separate issue, there was a recent story about seismic safety in the Oakland Tribune a couple of months ago. I found myself wondering about EUSD’s rating, but did not find much information in the Tribune article and was, in general, wondering about more detailed information for our schools, (including ECDC where my child is enrolled).

Again, thanks for all of your work. I really appreciate the stories you have done so far!

This post was submitted by Jacqueline Asher.