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Cookiebar: Pampering Your Sweet Tooth on Webster Street
"Growing up, we never had a place to hang out and the West End never had an ice cream shop," say the owners.

I started with Patch as the copy editor for 11 Patch sites: Alameda, Albany, Castro Valley, El Cerrito, Hercules, Newark, Piedmont, Pinole, San Leandro, San Lorenzo and Union City. Currently I am the local editor at Piedmont Patch and Alameda Patch. Questions? dixie.jordan@patch.com.
Before coming to Patch, I was the editor and publisher of Parents Press, a magazine for Bay Area parents, for more years than I like to remember. Before that, I was news editor at the Contra Costa Times and a reporter at various Northern California newspapers.
I am a fifth generation Californian who has lived in the East Bay most of my life and a graduate of UC Berkeley. For fun, I volunteer on archaeology digs, mostly in Ireland and the Southwest.
My brilliant and beautiful daughter, Jenny, a school psychologist, just married the charming Chris Davidson and they are living in Austin, Texas — too far way!
"Growing up, we never had a place to hang out and the West End never had an ice cream shop," say the owners.

Fritz, the abandoned cat formerly known as Captain Crunch, has been adopted.
Plus a dog bite incident, a stolen BMW and an auto break-in.
Services are scheduled Jan. 26 for Jill Fritschi Reese, a Piedmont resident who was reported missing Jan. 14 and found deceased in San Francisco the following day.
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Check out holiday hours and schedules for government offices, schools and public transit for Monday, Jan. 20
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Check out holiday hours and schedules for government offices, schools and public transit for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Berkeley Hills is one of the San Francisco region's top-ranked "real estate darlings of 2014," according to a survey by the real estate company Redfin.
Berkeley Hills is one of the San Francisco region's top-ranked "real estate darlings of 2014," according to a survey by the real estate company Redfin.
The real estate website Redfin.com cited Lower Piedmont in its recent report on "the real estate darlings of 2014."
The Danville made it past auditions on the premier of this season's 'American Idol.'
Photo is evidence of just how serious the drought is in California
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued its 28th alert of the 2013-14 winter season.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued its 28th alert of the 2013-14 winter season.
Reese was reported missing on Tuesday, Jan. 14, after she left her Piedmont home about 10 a.m. but failed to keep an appointment in Orinda.