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30-year wait to underground utility lines is nearly over | Historic Asian American bookshop closing

Richard Schwartz

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Black Berkeley town father invented the lawnmower grass-catching pan in 1889

by Richard Schwartz March 25, 2022, 4:02 p.m.August 4, 2022

Henry Peterson arrived in Berkeley in its earliest days and co-founded the city’s first church.

Posted inCommunity

She tore up burning roof shingles bare-handed to douse 1905 Berkeley fire

by Richard Schwartz Dec. 29, 2021, 10:00 a.m.August 16, 2022

Mary Shaplin, who was recovering from an illness, jumped into action when the roof of her neighbor’s adjoining house in downtown Berkeley caught fire more than a century ago.

Posted inCommunity

The Chinese workers who fought discrimination at an 1880s West Berkeley soap factory

by Richard Schwartz Oct. 17, 2021, 7:00 a.m.August 4, 2022

The Standard Soap Works factory housed its Chinese workers in racially segregated shacks before deciding it wanted to “fill their places with white labor.”

A road in the east bay after the 1868 Earthquake. (source unknown, courtesy of Richard Schwartz)
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SoCal earthquakes remind us of the need to be prepared

by Richard Schwartz July 09, 2019, 6:00 a.m.August 4, 2022

Since 2006, we have been due for another major, destructive earthquake along the Hayward Fault. The recent SoCal quakes are just a stark reminder that we need to be ready for it.

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