History museum revives Richmond’s semi-pro baseball pride
Curator Melinda McCrary stands next to a clunky antique radio that’s perched on a classic wooden stand in the Seaver Gallery at the Richmond Museum...
Sarah Phelan
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Stories by Sarah
Can bikes and people peacefully co-exist on BART?
By Sarah Phelan Posted
Last week, BART officials launched a five-day pilot program to see if bikes and people could fit comfortably onto its trains at all times. Now...
RAC’s Holiday Arts Festival goes green
By Sarah Phelan Posted
Richmond Arts Center has been holding holiday arts festivals for more than 50 years. But this is the first time its festival has gone green,...
Getting Tom Butt’s Goat
By Sarah Phelan Posted
Richmond City Councilmember Tom Butt makes no bones about the fact that he keeps a menagerie on the 5 acres that surround his property in...
Chevron to replace pipes, union workers to discuss Cal/OSHA
By Sarah Phelan Posted
Chevron will replace all piping in the damaged sections of the Richmond refinery with chrome alloy, the company said in a letter Wednesday to the...
Nutiva CEO announces next step in campaign for GMO-free world
By Sarah Phelan Posted
On the day after the election, as folks were picking themselves up after a night spent celebrating or grieving, Nutiva CEO John Roulac, a major...
Election 2012: Proposition 37
By Sarah Phelan Posted
On a sunbaked October afternoon, as shoppers munched on sliced apple samples and children dug into bags of kettle corn at the Main Street Farmers’...
Oktoberfest brings beer, Bavarian costumes to Craneway Pavilion
By Sarah Phelan Posted
The Craneway Pavilion on Richmond’s marina harbor echoed to the sounds of steins clinking, beer pong balls pinging, Bayern Maiden’s guitar twanging and dirndl and...
Richmond’s war of the roses
By Sarah Phelan Posted
“This one is called Laser,” said Flora Ninomiya, stroking the smooth petals of a small yellow rose she cultivates in a greenhouse along Brookside Avenue.
Community members wait hours to vent at Chevron’s fire update
By Sarah Phelan Posted
The Aug. 6 refinery fire was caused by corroded pipes and that Chevron technical experts were aware of the potential danger.
Teens help Richmond break coastal cleanup volunteer records
By Sarah Phelan and Sara Bernard Posted
More than 800 volunteers, many of them teenagers, broke coastal cleanup records in Shimada Park Saturday.
Chevron failed to check pipes despite internal policies
By Sarah Phelan Posted
Chevron failed to check pipes despite internal policies. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board has found that sections of pipe that were measured following the August...
EPA says it’s premature to discuss prosecuting Chevron
By Sarah Phelan Posted
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says investigations into Chevron’s August 7 fire in Richmond will take at least a year, and it’s premature to discuss...
