The Musical Offering, a nearly 40-year-old cafe/music store, says it needs the community’s support to get through the pandemic. It’s selling prix-fixe meals as a last-ditch effort.
After being closed for over six months due to COVID-19, playgrounds have reopened today.
Masks may be the only constant from past years for fall celebrations upended by COVID-19.
Restaurants can reopen indoor dining at 25% capacity beginning Oct. 26 under a new orange tier designation for the county in the state’s COVID-19 reopening guidelines.
The city is increasing testing availability to help schools open as soon as Oct. 13. Nail salons, tattoo parlors and other personal services may open Oct. 9.
Live music is returning downtown with regular, socially-distanced performances at The UC Theatre, Bobby G’s, and a planned Freight & Salvage ‘tour’ of downtown parklets.
The ban on outside visitors is in response to a state recommendation that universities limit visitors as much as possible. It is unclear how much Cal intends to enforce the new guidelines, however.
The bus agency is adding an extra layer of health and safety precautions to keep passengers safe.
Currently, the city must seek a criminal prosecution to do anything other than warn people to wear masks. A proposed ordinance will allow officials to hand out an administrative citation instead.
All large lectures and most classes will be remote in spring 2021, and on-campus students will self-quarantine at the beginning of the semester.
Community transmission rates, a long list of logistics and multiple sets of standards will determine when they can move forward.
The Ed Hub is running low on Chromebooks and WiFi hotspots, but BUSD hopes to have more hotspots by next Wednesday if it can reopen.
‘Profoundly unsettling’ is how one person describes the display of international newspapers on the UC Berkeley campus, all of which are dated March 15 or 16, just before the city went into lockdown.
Students are choosing to live at home or withdraw for the semester. Some are still deciding. Of those who stay enrolled, only 3,200 will be able to stay in on-campus housing.
The responses to our polls, while unscientific, were enlightening.
Alameda County has not yet given the go-ahead for dine-in service, but with other Bay Area counties already reopened, local restaurant owners are considering what they’ll do.
While the beloved Oakland movie theater is closed for film screenings, it’s keeping staff employed by selling meals.
The “flex streets” collaboration, along with fundraising through Oakland Cocktail Week, aims at supporting the city’s bars and other small businesses.
There are several restrictions to the indoor haircuts, including an appointment-only system and mask use.
The glitch affects positive case rates, but not deaths and hospitalizations.
More businesses will now be able to set on sidewalks and in parking lots after the City Council expanded a law.
In a community survey, 56% of respondents said mental health was their biggest worry about the pandemic. The city wants to know what people need.
The university is still working on hybrid learning models if health conditions improve, but it will begin fall semester remotely.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT, Oct. 12, 2020: After putting opinion pieces largely on hiatus to devote our resources to covering the coronavirus outbreak and providing information and resources for our community, Berkeleyside began publishing them again today. The submission deadline for election-related op-eds was Oct. 7.
The city of Berkeley will help businesses and artists impacted by the coronavirus and is taking steps to help the homeless, seniors, and single parents, among others.
The outbreak of COVID-19 is now a global pandemic. People should take it seriously, yet also be wary of alarmist panic.
COVID-19 is also threatening a local economic crisis, which may affect the viability of Berkeley’s small businesses. Here are some steps we can take to help out.
Six months into the pandemic, businesses set up to serve UC Berkeley see little business. Property owners who usually rent to students have lots of vacancies.
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