Berkeley school district faces 2 more child sex abuse lawsuits
The lawsuits claim staff members at two elementary schools sexually abused students in 1967 and 1995 and the schools failed to stop it.
Archives – May 2022
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New play ‘Balikbayan Box’ tells a Filipino immigration love story
Jeffrey Lo’s play at TheatreFirst presents a modern arranged marriage, where love grows during the quest for a green card.
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Julia Morgan and Grinnell Jr? What should the 2 new falcon chicks be named?
You have until Friday morning to choose from among 12 potential names for the new peregrine falcon chicks atop the Campanile.
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People’s Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Preservationists are hoping the listing might persuade UC Berkeley to build housing elsewhere but Cal says it won’t.
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Opinion: Denser housing at BART stations is climate-smart
We strongly support the environmentally superior option of putting the maximum legally-feasible amount of mixed-income housing at Berkeley BART stations.
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Berkeley Symphony caps 50th season with epic Beethoven’s Ninth remix
June 12 performance reimagines masterpiece with new text by U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, plus new work by Berkeley composer Jimmy Lopéz Bellido.
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Oakland’s newest coffee shop is drowning in rose garlands
Damask Rose is an impossibly cute floral-themed coffee shop from the owners of Old Damascus Fare.
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At Berkeley’s queer tango class, it takes 2 but it doesn’t matter who
“Queer tango is Argentine tango without the homophobia, transphobia and rigid heteronormative rules,” says a co-founder of Abrazo Queer Tango, open in Berkeley since 2012
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Name Annie and Alden’s 2 falcon chicks
On Friday, experts measured and banded the two chicks that hatched in early May. A contest started for the public to suggest names for the siblings by 6 p.m. on Memorial Day.
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Berkeley man charged with sex crime series in Berkeley, Albany, Oakland
Police say the earliest incident took place March 30 when a man who said he had a knife sexually assaulted a 9-year-old in Albany. This was followed by a sexual assault on Colusa Avenue.
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Berkeley school board members Ty Alper, Julie Sinai won’t seek re-election
Alper and Sinai have already endorsed their picks among the candidates running for the three at-large school board seats on the ballot in November.
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CVS Pharmacy on Shattuck Avenue will close June 15
Hundreds of CVS pharmacy locations are being closed across the country.
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A ‘Yippie Girl’ gives her account of the countercultural revolution in new book
Judy Gumbo’s memoir, ‘Yippie Girl’ is an often amusing account of her years as a would-be revolutionary.
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Remembering Esther Davies, enamelist, jeweler, crafter of Judaica silver and bead work
Davies moved to Berkeley in 1971 so she could attend the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland.
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Boy, 17, shot during altercation at Civic Center Park in downtown Berkeley
Police have detained one person in connection with the incident, but others remain at large, BPD said.
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Berkeley’s tree removal aims to ‘set an example’ for wildfire management
The city has cut down nearly 300 trees, mostly eucalyptus and Monterey pine, since 2019 and is now ramping up defensible space inspections of private property in high-fire areas.
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CHP: Hit-and-run DUI crash causes major injuries to officer, driver arrested
As of Thursday, the officer remained in the hospital but is now in stable condition.
