The Berkeley Wire: 12.31.18
News about Berkeley from around the web.
Archives December 2018
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Opinion: To save the underfunded but popular Berkeley Marina, add a waterfront hotel and improve security
Berkeley doesn’t need to spend $1.2M to study what to do with the Marina. Adding a hotel could wipe out the Marina Fund’s deficit and bring needed activity to that part of the shoreline.
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Tree cutting at People’s Park
UC Berkeley cut down 42 trees on Dec. 28, 2108, to address “long-deferred maintenance.”
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Cal removes 42 trees at People’s Park to ‘address long-deferred maintenance’
Tree chippers and work trucks pulled into People’s Park in Berkeley early Friday morning to take out more than 40 trees and prune a number of others, UC Berkeley officials report.
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Third man charged in South Berkeley gang shootings
Phone records, photos and a Honda helped police zero in on a third suspect from gang-related shootings in April, court papers show. He’s also been linked to two other gang shootings, including one on I-580, police say.
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Parolee-at-large arrested, charged after 3 armed robberies in Berkeley
A 25-year-old homeless parolee-at-large was charged with four felonies this week after police tied him to three armed robberies in northeast Berkeley in December, according to court papers.
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10 most-read Berkeleyside stories of 2018
We ranked all the stories we published this year on a simple metric: how many page-views they got.
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11 big public safety stories in 2018 on Berkeleyside
What were the biggest Berkeleyside public safety stories in 2018? Here’s a round-up of the most significant.
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The year in numbers: Berkeleyside in 2018
These are some of the numbers that defined 2018 at Berkeleyside.
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The 10 most shocking East Bay restaurant closures of 2018
From longtime restaurants we thought would last forever to months-old businesses that we barely got to know, we still can hardly believe these spots closed.
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Berkeleyside picks the best books of 2018
Our 10 best books of the year range from an exposé of a Silicon Valley firm to a novel that takes readers into the heart of the refugee crisis in Europe.
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Berkeley Starbucks, whose opening was strongly opposed, is to close
Neighbors and customers of a nearby family-owned coffee shop lost a battle in 2014 to prevent the opening of this Starbucks. The indy business shuttered, and now the Starbucks will too.
