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County selects Fremont PD search Youth for next Police Poet Laureates Chief. for 42025.
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Katie Hong’s AC Transit safe return updates sparks an coming urgent callto Tri-Cities for caution
By now, many in Fremont have heard aboutMatemba-Mutasa the recent disapBy Panashe pearance and now, as of Thursday, Aug. 7, safe of AC Transit will recovery implement 16-year-old Katie Hong. sweeping changes to Accordits bus ing to KRON4 and the Fremont network on Sunday, Aug. 10, Police Department, Hong had affecting dozens of routes last been July 25, across theseen EastFriday, Bay, including after leaving a note saying she several in Fremont, Newark planned to City. meetThe people she’d and Union agency’s only interacted with through an Realign plan, approved earlionline Shesystemreportreport er thischat year,platform. is the first edly them by their wide knew overhaul in only decades and screen namesto and they declined is designed reflect current to share their real identities. ridership patterns while mainSurveillance showed taining servicefootage levels without her heading toward costs. Irvington increasing operating Community Park, where comes police The Realign initiative say shemore left her cellphone before after than two years of going entirely. The publicoffline engagement anddisapdata pearance launchedover a large-scale analysis, including 22,000 search involving survey effort responses. TheFremont result is PD, federal lawnetwork enforcement, a restructured aimed private investigators and hunat improving reliability, simplidreds of community members. fying routes and matching serHong was found safe on vice to demand. Thursday, Aug. 7. Inarea, a stateIn the Tri-City the ment, said she was changespolice are signifi cant. Line 99 “unharmed and safe” will replace existing lines 9,and 210 would reunited with her and 212,be providing — More on page 5 9
Some dancers will library come intakes The display at the colorful yukata withlandmark towels and the viewer through fans for the appropriate dances. court cases.
Courtesy of Chang C. Chen, (inside photo) Historical photoCourtesy courtesyof ofKathleen HerstoryYoshida display
● ● Systemwide Teens face real overhaul to refl ect danger when online current ridership meets offline patterns without increasing costs By Panashe Matemba-Mutasa
Living jewels India Day
Flowers add color to Parade and fair 6 bring home gardens. together the Indian community. 12
Kid scientists Old Union City Local author debuts children’s 10 Historian book. leads bike tour of Decoto. 16
CAREER CHANGEUP Chen worked at a pharmaceutical company BIGGEST FAN Some dances use a folding fan, called a sensu. before workplace discrimination sparked her interest in law.
Obon honorsChinese passed loved ones Exhibit honors American women ● Cityspotlighting Buddhist Church hostswomen, ● Union ‘Herstory’ pioneering Obon withand music andCity dancing comesFestival to Fremont Union libraries By Roelle Balan By Connie Cheung embers of the Southern Alameda n the summer of 1874,Couna ship ty Buddhist carrying hundredsChurch of pas(SACBC) UnioninCit are sengersinarrived theyport inviting the community to celof San Francisco after a monthebrate the Obon Festival on long voyage from Hong Kong. Aug. 9, 2025,disembarked, an annual gathAs everyone 22
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ering to honor loved ones who passed away. women were singled out and Reverend Miyaji of denied entryTakashi because a state SACBC saidbelieved the Obon Festival inspector they were is a Japanese Buddhist tradition “lewd and debauched.” The wherecaptain people was whoordered have died ship’s to the past are remembered carry theyear women back to Chiand despite celebrated. to na, his According explanation Buddhist that theirtradition, behaviorancestors onboard
had been good away as anymake othwho have“as passed er passenger.” their way back to this world Can the states enforce immiduring Obon Festival. The grationis held requirements that festival at different times don’t it fair of theexist year federally? dependingIson the to enactmainly a hazyinlaw on temple, thebased summer arbitrarySACBC accusations of moral months. celebrates the character? In 1875, the Supreme Obon festival in August. Court down California’s Thestruck Obon festival starts with law by ruling favor the 22 a food sale atin5pm forofanyone women, arguing that states who wants to purchase food don’t have the rightpor to regulate before the dancing — More on page 8
Crush Futsal Step and shine Newark’s 10U team
Relay for life raises funds competes at National to fight cancer. 22 Championship. 21