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For California’s premier public university, 2007 was a year of big trees, big buildings and Big Oil. -more-

Take a look back at Berkeley in 2007. -more-

2007 has been a year of hype and hope about how green Berkeley is and might be. -more-

Berkeley ended the year with the draft of a new downtown plan and a strong push to change the existing plan for West Berkeley. -more-

There is only one phrase to properly describe the first year of the administration of Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums: “mixed results.” -more-

If a high school English class were assigned to write a summary of the Oakland Unified School District for 2007, they would probably borrow and paraphrase from the opening lines of Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities: The year started out as the worst of times, and though by the end of 2007 it wasn’t the best of times, yet, it had certainly gotten decidedly better. -more-

2007, a year of many good-byes for the Berkeley Unified School District, ended with one notable welcome: the hiring of a new superintendent who is expected to take over the helm in Feburary. -more-

Erica Madrid, a supervising public health nurse in the Berkeley Public Health Department, died Friday, as a result of injuries sustained when she was hit by an automobile Dec. 12 at about 4:25 p.m., while crossing Solano Avenue going south at Fresno Avenue. -more-