Dwight Triangle News Today

A hectic winter for Berkeley’s historic People’s Park has taken another twist as the makeshift “People’s Free Store” unexpectedly shut down last week.

The City of Berkeley, at the request of the Telegraph Business Improvement District, cleared out the Dwight Triangle on the corner of Telegraph Avenue and Dwight Way this morning, and

The “People’s Free Store,” as it’s labeled on paper signs that line the Dwight Triangle, stands on the small median at the intersection of Dwight Way and Telegraph Avenue.

Kate Harrison, Berkeley’s District 4 council member who was first elected in 2017, announced her resignation from the council during the regular council meeting Tuesday.

District 7 City Councilmember Rigel Robinson stepped down and suspended his mayoral campaign last week, according to an announcement first published in Berkeleyside on Tuesday.

Berkeley City Councilmember and mayoral candidate Rigel Robinson, who represents the student-majority Southside district, announced his resignation from the council and the end to his campaign Tuesday afternoon.

Berkeley City Council voted to open and subsidize a permanent space for the Telegraph Chess Club at its Tuesday meeting, almost two weeks after the club’s initial closure.