2+ hour, 6+ min ago  (364+ words) My friend Kathleen's horse, Zander, kept snatching at the tall blades of grass, while Major, my stalwart mount, kept eyeing the brightly colored spring wildflowers popping up between the wet sedges. Nothing like an early morning trail ride to put…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (251+ words) Today is Saturday, April 18, the 108th day of 2026. There are 257 days left in the year. On April 18, 2016, "Hamilton," Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop stage biography of America's first treasury secretary, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. In 1775, Paul Revere began his famous ride…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (640+ words) After publishing her book "Patchwork History" in 2010, the Saratoga Historical Foundation is hosting a Zoom lecture with author Connie Young Yu on April 22. "Patchwork History" is a revised, color edition of "The People's Bicentennial Quilt," which Young Yu wrote in…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago  (548+ words) A century ago, the Berkeley Daily Gazette reported April 15, 1926, that the Edward E. Niehaus Co. had moved into a newly built home at the city's northwest corner of Grove Street (now Martin Luther King Jr. Way) and Derby Street. Niehaus was…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (242+ words) Today is Monday, March 30, the 89th day of 2026. There are 276 days left in the year. On March 30, 2009, heavily armed militants stormed a police training academy near Lahore, Pakistan, taking hostages and killing cadets and others before being overpowered after several hours....

3+ week, 8+ hour ago  (373+ words) Today is Sunday, March 29, the 88th day of 2026. There are 277 days left in the year. On March 29, 1943, World War II rationing of meat, fats and cheese began, limiting American consumers to store purchases of an average of about two pounds a…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (446+ words) Growing up in the U. K. , Rae Alexandra, who is Welsh, was bored to tears by history in her high school classes. It wasn't until she visited San Francisco, fell in love with it, moved here and learned about some glaring discrepancies…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (538+ words) A century ago in 1926, it was front-page news in the Berkeley Daily Gazette when one of Berkeley's wealthy prominent, residents, George Shima, died at age 61. Shima, an immigrant from Japan to San Francisco in 1889, worked first as a household servant,…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (243+ words) Today is Tuesday, March 24, the 83rd day of 2026. There are 282 days left in the year. On March 24, 1999, NATO launched airstrikes against Yugoslavia in a campaign to stop ethnic cleansing, marking the first time in its 50-year existence that it attacked a…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (293+ words) Today is Monday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2026. There are 283 days left in the year. On March 23, 1942, the first Japanese Americans incarcerated by the U. S. Army during World War II arrived at the internment camp at Manzanar, California. In 1775, Patrick Henry delivered…...