Month: November 2011
There is a time machine in Richmond that will take you back. Way back. Where 80s crooners sing of careless whispers and sepia-tinted photographs bring you back to the better days of peace and love. This blast from the past is actually a mid-sized storefront in Richmond’s North and East neighborhood, where 16 waterbeds are on display, waiting for customers to come in and sit on them. And waiting. At one time, Odds ‘N Ends Waterbeds on San Pablo Avenue…
A company with local roots breaks into the green food packaging business, reaching out to Google and UC Berkeley. http://t.co/6pT0Whlz
In the food packaging business, polystyrene has become a four-letter word, but the food industry simply doesn’t have a cost-effective, eco-friendly answer to the plastic that Dow Chemical introduced to Americans in the early 1940s. In 2007, Richmond business owner Allen King thought he had the answer.
An apparent street race Sunday left a teenage driver dead. The police have made an arrest. Byron Wilkes has the story. http://t.co/GpsHFWC2
An apparent street race in Richmond early Sunday morning left a teenaged driver dead and another man in handcuffs. At 1:15 a.m. Sunday, police officers responded to a call at Richmond Parkway near Goodrick Avenue, said Capt. Mark Gagan of the Richmond Police Department.
What happened at the Plan for a Sustainable and Livable Richmond Conference last week? http://t.co/NSB1lUP1
When Luz Gomez, the deputy chief of staff for County Supervisor John Gioia, tried to establish a small deli on a corner in North Richmond, even with help from the County, had to overcome more zoning code, development agency and operator obstacles then she anticipated. Though she says that she feels close to opening the neighborhood’s only restaurant, it has been a battle that has lasted years. “I can’t tell you the kinds of barriers we have encountered along this…
Richmond Police Chief Chris Magnus visited Richmond Confidential on Friday to discuss media and police relations. http://t.co/8xofX1sf
Richmond Police Department Chief Chris Magnus and Captain Mark Gagan came to the Richmond Confidential newsroom Friday to discuss police-media relations and answer questions. Magnus has been chief of the RPD since January 2006. He served as a cop in Lansing, Michigan for 18 years and then as the chief of police in Fargo, North Dakota for six years before coming to Richmond. Gagan was promoted from a lieutenant to a captain last year, and is one of the RPD’s…
Kennedy played their last home game of the season Friday night. If you couldn’t make it out, we have the story. http://t.co/ernd05xZ
The Encinal Jets swept aside the Kennedy Eagles 55-22 Friday night. But even as the Eagles walked off the the field for what was for many their last ever home game, the team kept their spirits high. The game started out close. Senior wide receiver Kenneth Walker scored a touchdown off a 3-yard pass from quarter back Octavious Holley. Going into the second quarter the the Eagles trailed just 7-8. As Walker made a 90-yard run in the beginning of the…
Richmond Police Department Officer Joey Schlemmer said it is difficult to determine what happened to the two cars discovered in the marina late last week due to the vehicles’ conditions. The two rental cars, one a Ford Taurus from Los Angeles County and the other a Chevy Malibu from Pinole, were reported stolen in 2001. Both are listed as property of Allstate Insurance. Schlemmer said, considering the cars went missing 10 years ago and that Allstate did not follow-up on…
If you need school children to remember important public safety procedures, send in Wally Wise-Guy. http://t.co/0TOwp074