Week in Review: Light Pole Hit and Run, Halloween, Candidates for Mayor, Earthquakes and Pizza

Miss a day of Newark Patch? Catch up with our recap of the week's top stories.

A 15-year-old Newark area boy was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of hit and run, delaying arrest and driving without a license after the vehicle he was driving hit a light pole on Buckeye Place, Newark police said. They said the youth was found hiding on a nearby rooftop. On Friday, Fremont police announced the youth was a suspect in at least .

On the local election front: On Friday, Newark Patch ran a asking who you think should be the city's next mayor, along with answers to a detailed questionnaire by mayoral candidates , and . Earlier we reported about business growth and gang violence at a Newark Chamber of Commerce election forum.

Halloween hit the headlines in several stories about the upcoming holiday. Read about the sponsored by Heidi Klum and Patch, and this year's (hint: Charlie Sheen is big).

The League of Women Voters celebrated with early 1900s costumes and a theater perfomance.

Fremont was named a Hero of Hope for the American Cancer Society's 2012 Relay for Life program. Another local survivor — this time of an accident that caused a broken pelvis — was inspired , a line of "motivational clothing," with his brother.

Newark is one of seven cities being considered as a site for an innovative program that would place to provide care to uninsured county residents.

A rattled the East Bay on Thursday.

Old Town Shakers Pizza wants you to help decide on a , while Evergreen Oil is seeking local volunteers to serve on a .