The best of East Bay summer street fairs
Ariel Lung/Senior Staff
Summer street fairs are not only a great experience, but also one of the best ways to enrich your summer and spend time with those you love.
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Gordo Taqueria agrees to pay $690,000 to settle class-action suit
Gordo Taqueria, a restaurant chain operating five locations in San Francisco, Berkeley and Albany, has agreed to pay a total of $690,000 to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that the restaurant’s owners failed to abide by wage and labor laws, as first reported by Berkeleyside.
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University Village Community Garden may stop accepting nonresidents
Starting Feb. 1, a change may be made to the membership regulations of the Community Garden at the University Village in Albany, or UVA. The program, which previously accepted nonresidents as members, may limit acceptances to residents of the UVA.
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‘Progressive no matter what’: Barbara Lee, Laura Wells vie for 13th congressional district seat
East Bay voters must choose between blue and green, as the ballot lists both incumbent Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, and Green Party activist Laura Wells. Both candidates’ platforms include education reform, health care accessibility and addressing class inequality.
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44th annual Solano Avenue Stroll gathers families, politicians and protestors
The 44th annual Solano Avenue Stroll, hosted by the Solano Avenue Association, or SAA, bustled with artisans selling their crafts, teenagers hanging out and families visiting from all over Albany and Berkeley.
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Alameda and Contra Costa counties introduce new telephone area code: 341
The 510 area code is expected to run out of prefixes, or the first three numbers after the area code, by “the second quarter of 2019.”
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‘One kind of dream’: Nepalese families, businesses thrive in Berkeley
At first glance, the convenience store is modest. Just south of campus, the small shop offers fresh produce and steaming momos and samosas, prepared just behind the cashier’s counter.
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Around town with Allison: That’s nuts! Mr. Dewie’s Cashew Creamery
Ice cream is a guilty pleasure of even the lactose-intolerant and vegan. For these folks, Mr. Dewie’s Cashew Creamery is the perfect place to go.
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Cal women’s basketball draws No. 7 seed, will face No. 10 Virginia
The winner of Cal-Virginia will face off with the victor of a matchup between No. 15 seed North Carolina A&T and No. 2 seed South Carolina on Sunday.
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After 30 hours, power outage in University Village in Albany resolved
The outage lasted about 30 hours and primarily affected the western portion of the village, according to UC Berkeley spokesperson Adam Ratliff.
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