Five days after this week’s Berkeley High-Oakland Technical High football game was abruptly canceled by Principal Jim Slemp, Berkeley school officials were still trying to reschedule the game for an alternate site—but apparently not in coordination with their counterparts at Oakland Tech. -more-

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So, now begins the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, as the English poet John Keats described it. Labor Day is over. Squirrels are having noisy battles in oak trees over this year’s acorn crop. The swallows are packing up to leave Capistrano. And here in Berkeley, citizens can celebrate the seasonal return of the City Council to take up their civic responsibilities—for a couple of weeks at least. Since we’re in California instead of England, we can expect the mists of August to lift somewhat in September and October. But the miasma that lately seems to hang over decision-making in Berkeley shows no signs of abating. -more-

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A year and a half of walking picket lines in the heat and rain is not enough to deter the Claremont Hotel employees who are currently organizing to form a union and sign a new contract at the upscale hotel on the Oakland-Berkeley boarder. -more-

WELDON RUCKER -more-

For the last quarter-century, writer Peter Manso’s notes from an old interview for a now-defunct magazine have gathered dust, locked away in storage and largely forgotten. -more-

Residents in North Berkeley have been trying to stop wireless base-station antennas proposed by Sprint at 1600 Shattuck in a residential area. This battle has been going on for 10 months. After months dealing with the City, neighbors of 1600 Shattuck have reached the conclusion that some city staff are back stabbing them to support Sprint by any means possible. Misconducts and actions of the City has caused monetary damages and emotional distress to the neighbors. Neighborhood groups around Berkeley might have similar experiences with the City. A chronology of events regarding antennas is as follows: -more-

Bus drivers have abandoned plans for a one-day walkout after cash-strapped AC Transit temporarily restored some of the service cuts they had scheduled for December. -more-

With her Cody’s bag clutched to her Armani suit, 44 year old Buffy McNoodles doesn’t look like a threat to Telegraph’s streetlife, yet three decades of local Berkeley coverage prove she is. -more-

Enthusiastic supporters from Berkeley crossed the Bay Saturday to hear presidential hopeful Howard Dean address 1,100 unionized health care workers in San Francisco. -more-

Mark Morris and his Dance Group regularly perform for Cal Performances at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall—so much so that some claim the globally renowned dancer/choreographer as an honorary citizen of the People’s Republic of Berkeley. -more-

Way back in 1947 Roger “Bob” Gilmore went to work for Byron and Rhoda Bolfing at their Elmwood Hardware store on College Avenue in Berkeley’s Elmwood neighborhood. -more-

People’s Park Boardmember Sought -more-

Berkeley residents holding visitor parking permits must either use or exchange them by next Monday, thanks to a change in city parking ordinances. -more-

Murder in South Berkeley -more-

Blacks Struggle With Including Gay Rights Under Civil Rights Banner -more-

The latest round of labor troubles at Berkeley-based non-profit Building Opportunities for Self Sufficiency (BOSS) stemmed not from managerial malice but from improperly filed time sheets that delayed paychecks to employees last week, Executive Director boona cheema said Tuesday. -more-

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a three-part series on the history of Memorial Stadium. -more-

Members of one South Berkeley neighborhood say their home has a lot going for it, and they gathered Sunday to create a mural to share their exuberance with the world. -more-

Oakland writer Mary Monroe is an inspiration in perseverance. She wrote her first book, “The Upper Room,” in 1974. After hundreds of rejection letters, and eleven years, the novel was finally published in 1985. It got great reviews and quickly disappeared. -more-

Every Uncle Henry Book has the Uncle Henry Promise printed in the front. It takes up a full page, but the central premise is that “you will always have fun when you read it.” In fact, says Uncle Henry, sometimes “adults will laugh so hard they will fall on the floor and roll around clutching their stomach.” -more-

Faced with a long stretch of unemployment the vast majority of upstanding, college-educated people who live indoors, bathe regularly and use deodorant would find the prospect of turning to panhandling intolerable. The sheer degradation of it would frighten even the most thick-skinned human from even considering it. -more-

About the same time my memoir came out, Gene Simmons of the legendary glam-rock band Kiss published “Kiss and Make-Up,” his official biography. We share the same publishing house and the same New York publicist even though our life stories are astronomically different. -more-