With a new coach and game plan, John F. Kennedy High School’s once proud football program is poised to return to glory in this Friday’s season opener versus El Cerrito at Contra Costa College.
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August 24, 2010 – 5:00 am
Hundreds of youths, community members and civic leaders turned out for the RYSE Center’s 2nd Annual “Back to School Summer Jam.”
“Peace” is her middle name
August 18, 2010 – 5:00 am
Like many African American families, Mary “Peace” Head and her brood migrated to the Bay Area from Louisiana in search of work and opportunity. She remains a local icon ensconced in her beloved Parchester Village.
A Richmond Jewel, reborn
August 17, 2010 – 5:00 am
After two years of tireless fundraising, intensive construction and nearly $8 million in costs, the 324,000 gallon Richmond Plunge swimming pool is now open to all. June Albonico, 83, gives a video tour of this famous landmark’s history.
Integrating California prison cells
August 12, 2010 – 5:00 am
California’s sprawling prison system, the nation’s largest, retains deep racial divisions five years after a court-mediated settlement set in motion a plan to limit race-based cell assigning practices.
Prison University at San Quentin Prison
August 11, 2010 – 5:00 am
An innovative and in many ways unique educational program is flourishing on the other side of the Richmond-San Rafael bridge, in an institution through which many of Richmond’s sons have cycled over the years.
Prison’s revolving door
August 9, 2010 – 2:08 pm
Three months after being imprisoned for missing parole appointments and failing drug tests, a corrections bus scooped him up from San Quentin State Prison and dumped him a few blocks from his mother’s home just off Cutting Boulevard.
Council won’t halt court cases against pot shops
August 5, 2010 – 5:00 am
Despite pleas from the owners and patrons of Richmond’s medical marijuana dispensaries, the city council decided Monday during a special, closed session to continue with court cases aimed at shutting down the city’s pot clubs.
Each of the city’s eight dispensaries have been faced with cease-and-desist orders from city prosecutors, who say that because Richmond doesn’t…
Richmond neighborhoods celebrate National Night Out
August 3, 2010 – 8:53 am
This evening 24 neighborhoods in Richmond will join National Night Out, an annual nationwide event celebrated since 1984.