The market temporarily closed to test the diagnosed employee’s team members, and reopened Wednesday.
Supriya Yelimeli
Supriya Yelimeli is a housing and homelessness reporter for Berkeleyside and joined the staff in May 2020 after contributing reporting since 2018 as a freelance writer. Yelimeli grew up in Fremont and has written for outlets across the Bay Area and Southern California, including as a breaking news reporter for Bay City News, and a contributor at Mission Local, NBC Los Angeles and the Pacific Coast Business Times. Yelimeli earned her undergraduate degree at UC Santa Barbara where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Nexus. She's always reachable by Twitter and email for tips, criticism and all other feedback.
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Rep. Barbara Lee wants to form a racial healing commission to reckon with 400 years of systemic racism
The U.S. has never created a federal body to address the impact of slavery, and systemic racism in black communities.
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Employee at Berkeley Whole Foods on Telegraph tests positive for COVID-19
The case was first reported to employees in a text message alert on Tuesday at 6 p.m. The store remains open and the grocery chain says it is following health and safety guidelines.
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Council calls attention to police killing of George Floyd, mourns black deaths
“The collective knees on so many necks have finally given way,” Councilmember Ben Bartlett said during the meeting, recounting his childhood with Black Panthers, and the Rodney King riots.
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County asks residents to stay home due to ‘civil unrest’ from protests against police killings
The request came Sunday night as protests were happening simultaneously in a number of East Bay cities. The advisory was rescinded around 5 a.m.
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Programs for black students will be preserved despite budget cuts due to COVID-19, BUSD board says
BUSD turned to issues specifically affecting black students and their families in a virtual town hall on Tuesday evening, hearing from over 100 community members.
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‘Game-changing’ $600,000 grant from Bayer Fund will support Berkeley Food Network, Alameda County Community Food Bank
The grant will allow the organizations to expand distribution sites and help fulfill increased need for food-insecure residents during the pandemic.
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Kaiser is building a $14M COVID-19 lab in Berkeley to process 10,000 tests a day
The lab is under construction in a Second Street warehouse. It will open in June.
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Berkeley Whole Foods markets to remain open during nationwide worker ‘sick-out’
The Whole Foods press office said all stores will be open tomorrow, but will the workers be there?
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City sets up hand-washing stations to help homeless, others avoid coronavirus
City workers also knocked on tents and talked to people to hand out 560 kits with hand sanitizer and information about COVID-19.
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Big House Beans creates jobs, ‘family’ for formerly incarcerated
John Krause spent 11 years in and out of Bay Area prisons before founding his East Bay-based coffee company, which gives second chances to former inmates.
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Capoeira school secures funding from Berkeley to help purchase its building
The 40-year-old Capoeira Foundation has brought thousands to Berkeley and now hopes to own its home.