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There’s no denying 2020 was a very difficult year, filled with fear and loneliness, anxiety and stress. But amid the gloom there were bright spots. There were enough of them, in fact, for us to launch a popup newsletter, Best of Times in the Worst of Times, that came out weekly from March to May, highlighting uplifting and good things happening in Berkeley. The community rallied in a crisis. Residents chalked messages of encouragement on sidewalks, put teddy bears and rainbows in their window...

Poulet in North Berkeley was able to stay in business, despite closing from March through August, thanks to the first round of Paycheck Protection Program loans. Photo: Sarah Han Restaurants and food suppliers in the Bay Area are grappling with a new round of strict stay-at-home orders that ban on-site dining service during a bleak winter with skyrocketing coronavirus cases. The federal government is finally starting to take action. After months of political gridlock, on Monday night Congress p...

Berkeley finally embracing housing in a bid to rebuild a historically Black neighborhood FacebookTwitterEmail Althea Rankins, 71, leaves after shopping at a Walgreens store that could undergo redevelopment as part of the citys rezoning plan on Adeline Street in Berkeley, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020.Sarahbeth Maney / Special to The Chronicle The Berkeley City Council was about to vote on rezoning the Adeline Street corridor this month when the members did something unheard of in the city�...

Where to order Christmas takeout in the East Bay Feast your eyes on our bountiful list of East Bay restaurants and caterers offering special holiday menus to enjoy at home. FOB Kitchen’s Holiday Kamayan feast includes lechon, pancit and other Filipino dishes, fruit and banana leaves, and set up instructions. Photo: FOB Kitchen I’ll be home for Christmas, as you will likely be too. With indoor and outdoor dining on hold, and gatherings with outside households strongly discouraged as COVID-19...

Small businesses here in Albany have been hit hard by the... Small businesses here in Albany have been hit hard by the economic impact of the pandemic. Are you trying to shop at more small local businesses this season to help support them in these tough times? — Image by Shutterstock Thank In my initial posting I suggested that we we’were going to be subjected to a lifetime of mistrials until the the State of Minnesota could no longer find the basis to go to court leaving matter to die some...

To meet the demands of climate action, California must significantly shift trips away from private automobiles to less carbon-intensive modes of transportation, including public transit. Investment in public transit is hampered by high costs and lack of federal investment. Regressive consumption taxes instituted by local and state governments to fund public transit investment are approaching legal and political limits. An untapped source of revenue for public transit is land values. Recent stud...

Andrew Gilbert December 10, 2020Updated: December 10, 2020, 3:24 pm Jazz clarinetist Ben Goldberg launched a project called “The Plague Diary” in which he composes, records and posts music every day. Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle Sheltered in place in Berkeley, clarinetist Ben Goldberg decided to keep a musical calendar, making an entry nearly each day since the Bay Area’s first lockdown in March. Composing, recording and posting new pieces on the Oakland music service Ban...

They blindfolded him and drove him around for a while. and then they ended up in this apartment up in north berkeley. they took the blindfold off and he was sitting there with three very wanted people, lots of ammunition, and not much else. >> and he, you know -- he breaks into a huge grin. >> his first response was, i really would like to tell you a story. and they said, thats not going to do us any good, we have to get out of here. >> jack sold us on his ability to get us out of the state. he ...

We had no other options. kathy said to us there was a possibility she could hook up with a friend of hers named jack scott. i realized exactly who she was talking about. but id never met him. i only knew that he was a sports editor for "ramparts" magazine. >> first time i heard about the symbionese liberation army, jack and i had moved to new york. it was in the media. it was very fascinating, especially since we had lived in berkeley for so long. and then the massacre in l.a. happened. jacks fi...

We had to try to get some people to help us out and we needed to get some money without having to rob banks to do it. we didnt need any more drama that we couldnt deal with because were down to three people. >> thank you, willie, camilla, mizmoon, and fahizah, viciously attacked and murdered by 500 pigs in l.a. while the whole nation watched -- >> there was one political rally, and it was at berkeley, and it was organized and hosted by a woman named kathy soliah. kathy soliah was an actress, and...