Albany Today

Voters waited in line at a polling station at University Village, Albany in the early morning of Tuesday. Photo by Linda (Linjun) Fan

Patricia Low and Ron Ronsenbaum were elected to the school board of Albany Unified School District Tuesday. Low led the race with 3,919 votes, and Rosenbaum received 3,424. The other candidate, John Kindle, got 1,082 votes, according to the Registrar of Voters of Alameda County.

School Resource Officer David Belman returns to Albany High School Tuesday, after being  absent from the school for the past month, during which a whirlwind of student protest surged on the campus calling for his resignation.

The complaint was sparked by the arrest of a senior at the school, Omari Parker, on a street near the campus during lunchtime at the beginning of October. Read the rest of this entry »