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🌱 How could new grants reshape traffic and school routes in Hayward?

Hayward, California Patch AM: a 5 min read

What's up Hayward! Let's start this morning right by getting caught up on what's going on around town. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • How could new grants reshape traffic and school routes in Hayward?
  • What will Hayward’s new Axon cameras and drones actually record?
  • How a Hayward-area levee helped inspire Bay-wide climate defenses

Also on today's calendar: Summer Flea Market (Indoor) 40+ Vendors and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What did one strawberry say to the other strawberry? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Tuesday: Areas of low clouds, then sun, with a high of 79 and low of 58 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Partly sunny, temps: high: 86, low: 59. 🌶 Hot!
  • Thursday: Areas of low clouds, then sun, with a high of 85 and low of 59 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Hayward requests funding from Alameda County Transportation Commission (tricityvoice.com) — Hayward is seeking millions in county transportation grants to upgrade bike and pedestrian safety routes, modernize traffic signals on A Street, and fully fund its Safe Routes to School improvements. If approved, these projects would add sidewalk-level bike paths, safer crosswalks, and better traffic management across key city corridors, with funding decisions expected in 2027.
   

• Hayward replaces Flock license plate readers with Axon cameras (tricityvoice.com) — Hayward is replacing 64 Flock license plate reader cameras with Axon systems and adding drones and real-time tech in a nearly $3 million, five-year deal. Police leaders say the new cameras can livestream but don’t record video, and they promise audits, access logs, and limits on data sharing to address residents’ privacy and surveillance concerns.
   

• Horizontal Levees Are Spreading Across the Bay Area (reasonstobecheerful.world) — A new “horizontal levee” in Palo Alto is part of a growing Bay Area trend in green flood protection, modeled in part on the pioneering Oro Loma levee near Hayward. These vegetated slopes aim to reduce flooding, clean treated wastewater, and restore habitat for species like the salt-marsh harvest mouse as sea levels and storm risks rise.
   

📸 Around Hayward

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🪧 Patch Classifieds

  • Acoustic roots & blues and classical/flamenco fingerstyle guitar lessons
    Sorry to be buggin' on this, but I'm still at zero students. Oftentimes all it takes is one to get the journey started! Who's it gonna be? hmmmm? (More info)

💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • Starlight was found at my feeding station the day after losing her sibling in a traumatic event.
    Starlight was all alone sitting inside a food bowl and that same day with the help of a neighbor she was caught. She was a nervous, but seemed to… (Nextdoor Blossom Way)
  • Lil oliver got a haircut yesterday after letting it grow out for a month i uselly take him in every 2 weeks so his hair really grew out daddy wanted him fluffy but he started to look un kept even after weekly baths his hair was in his eyes he
    normally stays on top of my blankets at nite last nite he got underneath them my lil dude was cold he still looks adorable guess he will need his Lil… (Nextdoor Meek Park)
  • Aerotek posted a job opening for Logistics Clerk in Hayward. Apply here.
  • Manpower posted a job opening for Material Coordinator 2 in Hayward. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Hayward here.

🗞 Nearby News

Union City

  • Developer eyes 100-plus homes on South Bay site owned by tech company (siliconvalley.com)

Castro Valley

  • For director-at-large: Michael 'Mick' L. Hurrey (acs.org)
  • Android / iOS Developer (Java) Need locals to CA - Delviom LLC - San Leandro, CA, US (dice.com)
  • Smoldering railway trestle demolished in West Oakland following massive fire (oaklandside.org)

Fremont

  • Summer Flower: Photo Of The Day (patch.com)
  • Teen Burglary Suspect Killed After Struggle For Gun In Fremont Apartment: Police (patch.com)

Ok Hayward! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: If you weren't so sweet, we wouldn't be in this jam! (Thank you Patti F. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Hayward

Never miss out on local news and events that matter to you.

Stay in the loop with what's happening in Hayward

Never miss out on local news and events that matter to you.