Jerome Paulos

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Features On the night of Friday, October 7, more than 100 students flocked to Café Mac, not to eat food, but to paint it. More specifically, to attend the Office of Student Leadership & Engagement-organized (OSLE) Pumpkin Painting Party. Students lined up before a large gray cart to pick their pumpkin. In less than 20 minutes, all but one lumpy, stemless pumpkin were being decorated by students gathered around tables.

This chart updates automatically every day at 5:00 PM. Jerome Paulos In the past few weeks, over 300 students attending Berkeley High School (BHS) tested positive for COVID-19, due largely to the surge of the Omicron variant and increased rapid testing in Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD). The BHS administration has worked to add precautions, attempting to lower the number of COVID-19 cases and keep instruction in-person.