Berkeley’s Alan Bern, a former Berkeley librarian for 21 years, is a polymath whose work spans performance, photography, poetry and prose.

Source: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/12/15/in-the-pace-of-the-path-alan-bern

Like other downtowns, Berkeley’s core took a beating in the early months of the pandemic, when many UC Berkeley students moved back home, and those at Berkeley High and Berkeley City College stayed home.

Source: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/12/27/berkeley-downtown-covid-recovery-housing-2

Lou is the current mate of Annie, Berkeley’s longtime female falcon, who lost her previous mates — Grinnell and Alden — in 2022.

Source: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/03/01/uc-berkeley-peregrine-falcon-lou-annie

The report was commissioned as part of a $2.5 million state grant awarded in 2022.designed to address these challenges and improve Berkeley’s mental health services.

Source: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/09/29/busd-mental-health-report-changes

This month I shared everything I learned in a two-part story: explores the rocks’ place in Berkeley’s social history and landscape, and the role — and exclusion — of Native people in that story.

Source: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/12/21/behind-the-story-indian-and-mortar-rocks

Two egrets seen on the north side of Berkeley’s McLaughlin Eastshore State Park on Jan.

Source: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/02/15/berkeley-wire-9