I went to Berkeley Thursday Farmer Market after walking from Downtown Berkeley to the FM - it's about 1mi or so .

Christmas is still a while off, but supporters of Operation Christmas Child are hoping people are already preparing shoe boxes of goodies for children around the world.

BART directors have voted unanimously to award part of a $2 million energy efficiency contract to a longtime associate with the Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland who has a criminal record and endorsed a violent protest in January.

I heard first of proposed bus changes from people talking on the bus who expressed outrage and dismay at bus cuts and route change.

Gathering at the top of Solano Avenue in North Berkeley, a small but enthusiastic group of 200 gathered with signs asking for Public Option Now.

September 09, 2009 Berkeley Writer's Class MINDFUL WRITER: FALL 2009 SESSIONS * All sections meet once a week on a weeknight evening from 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. * Sessions start week of 9/28 and run through week of 12/14 * No class during Thanksgiving week.

All Martinsburg-Berkeley County public libraries will be closed today to celebrate Labor Day.

What's not working update : First it was going to be April. Then it was May. Then it was the second week of July.

Here is a recent advertisement from CraigsList: Stolen White MacBook - $1000 Date: 2009-07-29, 1:57AM PDT Reply to: [email-address-deleted]@craigslist.org White MacBook stolen by two African American men near North Berkeley BART at 11:30 PM July 28, 2009.

What's not working update : First it was going to be April. Then it was May. Then it was the second week of July.

Sixteen partnerships between the University of California, Berkeley, and community groups to improve the quality of life for Berkeley residents will share $232,315 in grants awarded by the UC Berkeley Chancellor's Community Partnership Fund.

It's the Surgeon General clandestinely discovered smoking a cigarette. Or the Dalai Lama having a temper tantrum.

A surveillance video caught a man smashing, then stealing, a Virgin Mary statue that was the centerpiece of a fountain outside the St.

It was 1991 when Sara Bolder, now 56, first met Jim LeBrecht, now 53, but at that point, she was a single mom focusing on raising her daughter, and the charismatic man in a wheelchair didn't pierce her focus.

Berkeley's a small town. When one of the grocery stores management gets shaken up, especially if that grocery store has its own foodie fan base, word gets around.