El Cerrito police arrested suspects in stolen cars on three occasions since April 5, police said Thursday. One arrest followed a high-speed attempt to flee at speeds up to about 60 miles per hour that ended with a crash into a parked car on Potrero Ave... »
A new supermarket may be coming to the long-empty, former Albertsons/Lucky store on the El Cerrito/Richmond border, and Walmart has been rumored to be a potential tenant. An application seeking a use permit has been filed with the City of Richmond to r... »
Residents will be able to talk with and pose questions to Contra Costa Supervisor John Gioia at a Saturday breakfast in Richmond. There is no set agenda, but Gioia is expected to make remarks about youth and children issues. The "Breakfast with John" e... »
When we visited Katie Maltsberger at her long-established Katie's Dance Studio in El Cerrito, she was preparing to warm up some of her students for a class. We'd like to thank her for taking time out to talk about her teaching and her dance troupe's up... »
For the fourth time in the United States, a cow has tested positive for mad cow disease — this time in California, according to the Associated Press. Officials at the U.S. Department of Agriculture told the AP the infected dairy cow, discovered at a Ce... »
When asked about how to raise more money for public schools, most likely California voters support raising the income tax for state's wealthiest residents but not the sales tax, according to a survey by the Public Policy Institute of California. We'd l... »
An El Cerrito High School student, Yvonne Banerjee, will receive a $12,150 scholarship to be an AFS exchange student living with a host family in Japan for a semester beginning this fall. The news was announced by AFS-USA: Concord, CA, 23 April 2012 – ... »
UC Berkeley police Tuesday told activists occupying the the UC-owned Gill Tract in Albany that they are trespassing and face arrest or fines if they don't leave. Using a megaphone and accompanied by three other officers, UC police Sgt. Andrew Tucker en... »
Below are recent crimes, excluding petty thefts and thefts from vehicles, that we found on crimereports.com – the official outlet for El Cerrito police crime information. Assaults The list below includes an April 14 assault with a deadly weapon in the... »
We'd like to thank contributor Betty Buginas for these photos taken Tuesday showing the progress in readying the new Goodwill store for its upcoming opening at San Pablo and Brighton avenues in Albany, less than a block south of the El Cerrito border. ... »
By now, most folks who follow the news know that several dozen activists bearing seedlings and garden tools occupied the UC-owned Gill Tract in Albany on Sunday, Earth Day, and began planting their own urban farm. Albany Patch has been posting extensiv... »
The City of El Cerrito has sent out another "Citizen Survey" to gauge residents' views of local government and life in the city. The five-page questionnaire – the fourth such survey in the city since 2004 – went to 1,200 households earlier this month. ... »
On Sunday, April 29, the city of El Cerrito will turn Key Boulevard at the intersections of Conlon Avenue and Humboldt Street into a car-free zone for community members to enjoy another "street play" event with games, live music and other activities. T... »
Though you can often find a "Most Popular" list attached to articles on Patch, it's not always there or escapes notice beneath the ads. So we're publishing it to provide a quick reading of the most recent pulse of reader interest on El Cerrito Patch. Y... »
Officials from the University of California at Berkeley said they will work to find a peaceful resolution with activists who took over Albany's Gill Tract on Sunday to plant an urban farm. The city of Albany also released a statement, at 1:30 p.m.: "... »
