The Berkeley Wire: 12.31.18
News about Berkeley from around the web.
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.
UC Berkeley cut down 42 trees on Dec. 28, 2108, 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.
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.
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.
We ranked all the stories we published this year on a simple metric: how many page-views they got.
What were the biggest Berkeleyside public safety stories in 2018? Here’s a round-up of the most significant.
These are some of the numbers that defined 2018 at Berkeleyside.
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.
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.
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.
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