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Fair’s 2nd weekend
The 2025 Alameda County Fair is gearing up for the second of its four weekends at the Pleasanton fairgrounds.
Highlights on the schedule include concerts featuring Sugar Ray on Friday, Twist on Taylor on Saturday and Mi Banda El Mexicano on Sunday (Too $hort follows next Wednesday and Tower of Power is next Thursday).
Tractor pulls are the action sports attraction this weekend, and the hot air balloon rides will continue until Sunday only. Fiesta at the Fair is set for Sunday as well.
See the full schedule at annual.alamedacountyfair.com.
Still searching
Pleasanton continues to wait with bated breath for the school board to make a final decision regarding its superintendent position.
The trustees met in closed session four times in the past week (Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday) to discuss its ongoing search for a permanent superintendent, with no new hire announced as of press time.
The meetings followed a series of private deliberations in May and early June at which time the board was scheduled to select a top candidate and approve their contract at the June 5 regular meeting, only for that session to be abruptly called off days before and the recruitment reignited.
Pleasanton Unified School District officials have hoped to install the next permanent leader in time for the start of the 2025-26 academic year. The prior board opted to bring Maurice Ghysels out of retirement as interim superintendent for one year rather than make a permanent hire last school year after then-superintendent David Haglund announced his retirement April 22, 2024.
Train ride east
This is the second weekend in a row that Niles Canyon Railway is offering rare roundtrips that start off headed east instead of west, courtesy of its M200 railbus.
The 1.25-hour journey will depart from the Sunol Station on Kilkare Road and travel eastward to the Happy Valley Bridge in Pleasanton, where track is now completed, and then return to Sunol. Passengers cannot get on or off the train at Happy Valley.
The east rides will depart at 11 a.m. and 12:25 p.m. this Saturday and Sunday. These are in addition to the traditional westward train rides from Sunol to Niles Station through Niles Canyon departing at 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. both weekend days.
For tickets and more information, go to ncry.org.
Livermore citywide garage sale
Livermore Sanitation and Livermore Recycles have teamed up again for the popular Livermore Citywide Garage Sale on Saturday ( June 21).
The community event welcomes treasure seekers to Livermore from around the Bay Area and enables residents with a way to sustainably declutter their homes, and most importantly, divert unwanted items from landfills, according to an announcement from city officials.
This year, 210 Livermore residents registered to participate in the event which is scheduled from 8 a.m. to noon. Maps of participating homes are online at www.livermoreca.gov/garagesale.
