Though West Berkeley residents have known for years that trains run through Berkeley – late night blasts that bring to mind Coltrane in his least lucid moments – very few know that it stopped here. -more-
Mention the name Deltha O’Neal to just about any football fan and you’ll get a response. 1999 All-American, Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year, first-round NFL pick. O’Neal regularly made highlight films last season, picking off passes for touchdowns, returning kicks for touchdowns, and generally being spectacular on Saturdays. -more-
A few obscure cassette tapes and compact discs by easily forgotten artists like “Katrina and the Waves” and “Poco,” along with a handful of old books and magazines – some circa 1979 – dotted the dusty bookshelves at Half Price Books at 2525 Telegraph Ave. about 5 p.m. Thursday afternoon. -more-
After practicing psychotherapy in the historic building at 1942 University Ave. for more than a dozen years, Karen Rose will be out on the street. -more-
A teary-eyed Kaiza Robinson, 5, sat by the door of Jeannie Gee’s kindergarten class about 8:15 a.m. Wednesday morning at Le Conte Elementary School, tugging on her pigtails and wondering just where her mother left her, and when is she coming back. -more-
Some might call Willie Phillips a dreamer. He walks along a city block dominated by dot-commerce e-tailer lofts and gets visions of a funky, ethnic street mercado. He considers the Fourth Street boutiques and cafes and imagines some of the millions in yearly sales returning to the Oceanview community that surrounds it. -more-
The little guys won and Berkeley led the way. -more-
UC Berkeley, backed by local fire agencies, is set to begin a $400,000 fire abatement program Sept. 5 that will thin trees and remove overgrown brush in lands owned by the university in the Panoramic Hill area in hopes of avoiding a repeat of the devastating 1991 Oakland Hills fire that destroyed more than 3,200 homes and caused 25 deaths. -more-
WBNDC Fifth Street proposal not a farmers’ market -more-
Amid the jungle gyms of Totland, May Chao looks at a 5-year-old Chinese-American girl playing with her long black hair and thinks, “Laos was not this easy.” -more-
Meet Niles Xi ‘An Liechtenstein, the freshly sworn-in student director for the Berkeley Unified School District. -more-
The class of 2003 at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Law School has finally enrolled. Minority numbers, which plummeted after the UC Board of Regents banned affirmative action from admission decisions in 1997, rose slightly from 22 percent to 29 percent. The small increase was due primarily to a rise in students of Asian and Pacific Islander descent. -more-
You can’t have too much good karma. -more-
When Mark Covington applied for a clerical position at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory eight years ago, he unknowingly underwent a battery of genetic tests. -more-
Few images are cozier than that of friends and family snuggled around the hearth on a rainy winter’s eve. -more-
Following extensive discussions about health impacts from wood burning, the Community Environmental Advisory Commission concluded that exposure to wood-smoke particles may result in acute and chronic health problems. -more-
by John Angell Grant -more-
In the last decade, Oceanview has transformed from an industrial zone and working class residential area to a lucrative shopping district attracting crowds from as far away as Walnut Creek and Silicon Valley. Thursday night’s meeting of the West Berkeley Project Area Commission brought out all the frustrations of an area under dramatic transition, which one commissioner called, “vignettes of class warfare.” -more-
UC Berkeley is retracting its push for permanent lights at Memorial Stadium – literally. -more-
The return of Ishi to his Indian homeland 80 years after University of California scientists cut out his brain in the interests of science has drawn new attention to the quest to retrieve ancestral bones from museum basements. -more-
Berkeley Police say they believe they’ve caught two suspects responsible for a string of armed robberies during the month of August. -more-
