Residents of an apartment complex on Point Richmond Avenue perplexed by a big pile of dirt at an empty lot next to their buildings with a sign warning that the dirt is contaminated with PCBs, a class of toxic compounds.
Richmond mayor’s office staff and a team of 15 high-school volunteers carried out the city’s first “food census”—a survey of the items on offer at Richmond’s supermarket, grocery and convenience stores.
More than 2,000 pounds of trash were collected along Richmond shoreline during 2016 Coastal Cleanup Day.
California’s new immunization law, which went into effect in July, requires students to be fully vaccinated for school unless they have a medical reason and a doctor’s signature to prove it. But the legislation does not address the most common reason some students in Richmond schools lack required vaccines: so-called conditional admission.