Jennifer Corn: the newly named Principal of Thousand Oaks Elementary School. Photo: BUSD Update, 4:02 p.m.: The Principal of LeConte Elementary School announced she is resigning shortly after this story was published. In a statement issued today, Kathryn Singh said she would be moving back to Massachusetts due to family matters. BUSD Co-Superintendent Neil Smith said in a note […]
Eden Teller
Eden Teller is a freelance reporter, writer and amateur gardener. She began reporting for Berkeleyside as an intern in 2013 and continued her career with a B.A. in Media Studies from Macalester College and as a reporter for Eden Prairie News in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. She's deeply committed to local news and curious about how individual people come together and form a community.
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Berkeley Youth Alternatives attracts statewide attention
The walls of the Berkeley Youth Alternatives building on Allston and Bonar are covered in murals by past students. Photo: Eden Teller When Kevin D. Williams first found himself at Berkeley Youth Alternatives, it was, he says, a “naked building.” His mother, Niculia Williams, now executive director of the nonprofit, which supports underserved youth, had […]
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The It List: Five things to do in Berkeley this weekend
Jumping rope on Juneteenth. Photo: Esteban Allard-Valdivieso BERKELEY’S JUNETEENTH FESTIVAL The RD Bonds stage will be ringing with music this Sunday as Berkeley celebrates its annual Juneteenth festival, whose roots reach back to the 19th century. Although President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves in the rebelling Confederate states, in January 1863, news […]