"Protests to Russell City Plan Voiced", Daily Review, Jan. 16, 1963

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"I don't want to sell my property." 

One by one as they stepped to the microphone to protest Alameda County's redevelopment proposal, Russell City property owners expressed that sentiment. 

They were reacting... in the first of a scheduled series of public hearings... to a $1.8 million county plan to raze their homes and transform the blighted Russel City area into a 200 acre industrial park.

Daily Review, Aug. 30, 1961

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Soil tests basic in a full-scale redevelopment program in Russell City were ordered yesterday by the Alameda County Board of Supervisors. 

Underscoring the top priority it has given the Russell City project, the board directed County Administrator Earl Strathman immediately to engage the Oakland firm of Woodward-Clyde-Sherard and Associates to undertake the soil study. 

Daily Review, Feb. 07, 1966

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Dissolution of the Russell City Services District, superfluous now in view of pending redevelopment of the Russell area, is being recommended to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors by County Administrator Earl Strathman.

Strathman said a state-enacted district reorganization act of 1965 provides the machinery for dissolution by the board.

Daily Review, Oct. 01, 1965

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Action on a permit to relocate the True Holiness Church in Christ from Russell City to Kelly Hill in the Hayward area was thwarted yesterday by a parliamentary standoff at the Alameda County Board of Supervisors.

Daily Review, Sept. 17, 1965

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By Tom Harris

Flames from a wind-whipped grass and brush fire, skirling the eastern fringes of Castro Valley, threatened to destroy a dozen or more expensive homes along Crow Canyon and Jensen roads today before firemen and borate bombers won the battle against the stubborn blaze.

Daily Review, Sept. 13, 1965

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Alameda County firemen were kept busy extinguishing two separate fires which broke out late last night and early this morning on Mississippi and Louisiana Streets in Russell City.

Daily Review, Sept. 02, 1965

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The biggest fire yet to hit Russell City burned down 17 structures yesterday afternoon and blackened 23 acres of grass.

It was one of three major fires in Southern Alameda County yesterday.

Fanned by a stiff wind, it took area firemen five hours to get the blaze under control and another four to put it out. No one was injured.

San Francisco Examiner, Aug. 15, 1965

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By FRANK PIAZZI

Next year's primary and general election ballots in the two East Bay counties in all likelihood will still be counted by the old fashioned one-at-a-time hand ballot counting system. 

Hope that modern, high speed, electronic computers would take over the chore of tallying the votes in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties seem to be fading.

The primary election s [sic] next June 7. The general election follows Nov. 8. 

Daily Review, Jun. 30, 1965

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Mrs. Helen Russell McCullom of Oakland, heir of the original subdivider of Russell City, has given the Russell City Redevelopment project an assist by quit-claiming her underlying interest in some of the roads in the project area.

Mrs. McCullom is an heir of the late Henry Russell, who subdivided the area about 1906.

Daily Review, Jun. 16, 1965

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Members of the True Holiness Church of God in Christ in Russell City have appealed to the Board of Supervisors for permission to retain their church buildings when the county acquires their property as part of the Russell City Redevelopment project.