Director Liam Garland had led the Public Works Department, which handles everything from street paving to city facilities, since 2020.
November 9, 2023
Posted inNew Restaurants
Fikscue pop-up gets brick-and-mortar home, Helacio Deli takes over Mo’ Joe space
A running list of new restaurants opening in Berkeley, Oakland and beyond.
Posted inEvents
Around Berkeley: Fourth Street lights up, Electric Squeezebox Orchestra, love poems
Other events include a book talk with conservation photographer Dave Showalter ane a discussion with Pulitzer Prize winning composer-artist Raven Chacon.
Posted inCity
BART Director Rebecca Saltzman won’t seek re-election in 2024, opening seat on transit board
Saltzman has shaped efforts to build housing on BART property over her three terms, including at the North Berkeley station.
Posted inObituaries
Remembering Paul Preston, who researched and supported families with parental disability or deafness
A teacher and counselor of the deaf and a leader of the Berkeley-based advocacy group Through the Looking Glass, Preston was also an antiquer, an editor of a pottery magazine and a plant photographer with an easy laugh and a quick wit.
