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On Saturday, May 11th, over a hundred people gathered at the Gill Tract in Albany with the intention of using publicly-owned university land to grow vegetables for a 2nd year in a row.

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Over the course of the past week, actions by offshoots of the Occupy Wall Street movement have brought attention to the issues of student tuition hikes and food sovereignty.

When the top three winners of a Bay Area essay contest for fifth graders are asked to read their essays at a ceremony in San Francisco Wednesday night, one of them will be Zachary Adler of Ocean View Elementary School.

One person was arrested this morning, Monday, when UC Berkeley police evicted the Occupy the Farm activists who had occupied a university-owned lot next to University Village in Albany.

Police have moved in on protesters who occupied land owned by the University of California in the San Francisco Bay area city of Albany.

Albany's population decreased by 0.2 percent last year, the only city in the East Bay to experience a drop, according to a new state report.

A half-hour standoff between a man in a pickup with what appeared to be a real gun and a swarm of Albany and Berkeley police officers with guns drawn at Golden Gate Fields ended Saturday morning without shots fired and with the arrest of the suspect, police said.

A group of activists reclaimed a tract of land in Albany, Calif., owned by the University of California at Berkeley on Saturday in a takeover they termed Occupy the Farm.

Some readers have asked when the preliminary hearing will be held for Diane Sydenham of Albany, who has been charged with murdering a retired Kensington psychologist.

The attached photo was distributed Friday by UC Berkeley officials to clear up what they termed "misinformation" about the university-owned Gill Tract in Albany, where urban-farming activists from Occupy the Farm have said they plan an occupation on Saturday.

If you see a skinny, senior-citizen cat with a coat the color of golden straw, it might be the missing "Dinki." We spotted a "Cat Missing" flyer for 19-year-old Dinki on a telephone pole at Nielson Street and San Lorenzo Avenue near the Albany border in North Berkeley's Thousand Oaks neighborhood that was dated April 24, 2013.

The latest plans for a grocery store and senior housing on land owned by the University of California will need some tweaks to satisfy the city's zoning guidelines, the Planning and Zoning Commission told developers May 8. The plans were considered for well over three hours, with the public comment portion taking one hour and 40 minutes.

It was about this time last year that UC's development project, slated to pave over much of the historic Gill Tract Farm , was brought to the forefront of public debate by our three-week land occupation.

San Francisco Opera and Cal Performances present Music Director Nicola Luisotti and the San Francisco Opera Orchestra in concert on Friday, May 17 at 8 p.m. at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall.

The following information was obtained from the Albany Police Department 's daily incident log and its arrest reports.

Activist group Occupy the Farm has announced plans to hold a demonstration on Saturday on the land known as the Gill Tract to protest the University of California's development plans on nearby property.

Despite passing Measure G last year, West Contra Costa Unified School District has a losing record when it come to parcel taxes.

Albany High will hold a special "recognition event" on March 17 to highlight its selection as one of 22 high schools statewide to receive one of California's new "Civic Learning Awards," the school announced Wednesday.

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