Juneteenth returns to live celebrations in Berkeley

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Juneteenth returns to live celebrations in Berkeley

Anita Fowler dances as her mother Gracie Stover (middle) watches during Berkeley’s 35th Juneteenth Festival on Sunday, June 19, 2022. They traveled from Marin City to support and listen to…

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Public trust | Commentaries | San Luis Obispo

“Transparency, accountability, and public trust.” That is what SLO city and county officials promised the community after the May 10, 2021, shooting deaths of SLO Police Detective Luca Benedetti and…

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Buffalo Bill’s Brewery closes in Hayward

HAYWARD — After nearly four decades in business on B Street, iconic Hayward establishment Buffalo Bill’s Brewery — one of the first brewpubs in the country and an early contributor…

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Abrazo Queer Tango in Berkeley is part of a worldwide movement

Instructor Mira Barakat and Abrazo Queer Tango organizer Karen Lubisch dance at the Finnish Hall on May 15, 2022. Credit: Kelly Sullivan On a recent Sunday afternoon at Finnish Hall,…

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YXPlosion Community Engagement & Distribution Event May 28

By OBSERVER Newsroom YXPlosion will be engaging in Oak Park on May 28th from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Visit during their bi-weekly distribution to obtain essential items such as…

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State leader visits Berkeley, praises novel partnership to help the unhoused

Lourdes Castro Ramírez, secretary of the state Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, talks with Peter Radu, assistant to the city manager of Berkeley, on Friday at the Rodeway Inn…

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Daughter, mother, father graduate from BC on same day | News

The family that studies together graduates together. It happened Thursday at Bakersfield College when a 19-year-old student-athlete from east Bakersfield received her diploma along with not one but both of…

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Following the footsteps of Fezziwig: Union Hill first graders are surprised with star of children’s book

Readers around Grass Valley and Nevada County make The Union’s work possible. Your financial contribution supports our efforts to deliver quality, locally relevant journalism. Now more than ever, your support…

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Young LA Residents Get Real About How the LA Riots Inspire Their Activism

By Nadira Jamerson | Word In Black Photograph courtesy of Ricky Bonilla/Wikimedia Commons. (WIB) – I wasn’t alive in 1991 — the year that changed my hometown forever. In March 1991,…

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For Ukraine babies, Bay Area group sends portable incubators

Two hundred portable incubators, made using technology co-invented by a Stanford MBA more than 10 years ago, are on their way to provide life-saving warmth to babies born prematurely in…

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