They moved to the nearby Radisson Hotel at Berkeley Marina.

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District 8 Supervisor Gordon Wozniak, who represents an area that includes the Claremont Hotel and the eastern end of the UC Berkeley campus, made the comments Tuesday as city officials moved to halt the sale of a Post Office building on Allston Way due to a decline in business.

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But for the next five weeks, oenophiles can sip a little closer to home at the historic Claremont Hotel and Spa, just a 15km drive across the Bay Bridge, where the Berkeley Wine Festival is feting all things vino every Friday evening until 24 May.

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