Welcome to the RC Sports Glance, your up-close and personal account of everything that’s going on in prep and youth sports around Richmond. This space will be regularly updated with commentary, photos and profiles of local athletes, as well as schedules, scores and standings. We’re focusing on four high schools in particular: Richmond, Kennedy, Salesian and De Anza. Check out our flickr.com page as well to see some of sports photos taken by our staff, and upload your own. Let…
Students and teachers at Richmond High speak out in response to media publicity following last week’s rape of a 15-year-old girl.
Co-athletic director Harry Campbell said Kennedy would forfeit the remainder of its schedule because of a lack of players.
The original plan was to widen one confusing and congested interchange off Interstate 80, San Pablo Dam Road, at a cost of $30 million in 2006. Now it’s not so simple. The current plan involves two other interchanges – El Portal to the north, which would move, and McBryde Avenue to the south, which would close. The cost of the project has ballooned to $114 million, with an $87 million shortfall. Construction can’t begin until 2012 at the earliest. And…
Nearly a decade after the city broke ground on the Richmond Transit Village, much this development project that is key to the revitalization of downtown is still in the works.
While 132 units have been sold, unoccupied retail space has been available for months, and a $34 million garage and 99 units on the east side have yet to be constructed. For some of the residents, the village is taking shape slower than they hoped.