After a disastrous 2009 season, the Kennedy High Eagles are looking for redemption. For months, the team has been preparing for Friday’s season opener versus...
School Life
Prison University at San Quentin Prison
// Click on the images to find out more about their stories. Donning cap and gowns, four students walked to their commencement ceremony as relatives...
Seven winners at Contra Costa College Community Chess Tournament
For two hours it was as if all that surrounded Joel Alcaraz, 10 and Greg Lope, 33, had disappeared. Divided physically by a chessboard and...
Teens show their best at Richmond’s Got Talent Show
Teenage singers, dancers, a saxophone player and a band gave their best at the Richmond Memorial Auditorium last Friday during the Richmond’s Got Talent show,...
School district celebrates English proficiency achievement
When she was in the first grade, Yassna Ahmadi had a hard time understanding her classmates and teacher. At home her family only spoke Farsi....
New Helms Middle School ready to show
While a band of mariachis played in front of the new Walter T. Helms Middle School, some teachers, city officials, parents and children were lining...
District banking on voter support for Measure D
This June, the West Contra Costa Unified School District will be going back to the funding well, and hoping it hasn’t dried up. With West...
Making an IMPACT in North Richmond
For the teens and young adults who gathered on a rainy day last week in North Richmond, life has been a succession of struggles and...
Prodigal son on the RYSE
Will Haynes has no problem telling you what’s on his mind. Just ask him. Or don’t. He might tell you anyway. “What am I concerned...
Minds together in the ‘Triangle’
It’s been a long process, but tonight marks a new phase in the innovative effort to improve life in a long under-served local community. A...