Developer Sought For Russell City

Oakland Tribune, Mar. 29, 1967

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Alameda County is ready to begin looking for a buyer for the 200-acre Russell City Redevelopment Area along the Hayward shoreline.

What the Board of Supervisors has in mind is a single purchaser who will buy the entire redevelopment area and turn it into a clean, well-landscaped industry with a high tax base and employment level.

Something less may be acceptable.

Last Family Sees Home Burn Down

Oakland Tribune, Jan. 17, 1967

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HAYWARD—For the Antonio Ancona family, life was ending in Russell City.

They were the last family still living in the old community, which is being razed for an Industrial park. One relative was one of the area's first settlers.

Yesterday they began moving their possessions to a new home in Union City, south of Hayward.

But arsonists, the plague of Russell City during its final years, struck again.

Russell City Service Area Superfluous?

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.

Brush Fires Under Control

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.

Russell City Fire Razes 17 Buildings

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.

Vote Count Prospects

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. 

Heir of Pioneer Aids City

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.