Tim Manhart, owner of Catahoula Coffee roasting, says the shop’s clientele has been a revelation, dispelling some widely-held notions not only about who drinks gourmet espresso, but about who makes up Richmond’s population in general.
The American Lung Association in California released the state’s report card on tobacco policies at Richmond’s City Hall Tuesday.
A photographic look at Richmond’s historic Ferry Point.
Many fish that swim in the bay contain high levels of mercury and other contaminants, but because of persistent pesticide contamination, eating fish from the Richmond Harbor area may be particularly risky.
Some Richmond residents are concerned that local jobs created by the federal stimulus package aren’t going to local residents.
For almost 20 years, Eloisa Martinez’s beauty salon has been a hub for Hispanic community gathering in Richmond.
Sojourner Truth Presbyterian Church contemplates the role of churches and the community in the aftermath of last week’s rape.
Banned pesticides, primarily DDT and dieldrin, continue to poison the Richmond Inner Harbor, despite cleanup efforts more than a decade ago.
The kitchen at the Bay Area Rescue Mission is doing more than just feeding healthy meals to some of the East Bay’s poorest people. It’s teaching them vocational and life skills, too.
At 24, Michael Froiland is quite a bit younger than most participants in the Bay Area Rescue Mission’s recovery program. But Froiland said he appreciates the perspectives of his older counterparts. “I’m trying to learn what I can from the generation ahead of me so that I don’t repeat their mistakes,” he said. Froiland began using drugs as a freshman in high school in Visalia: “Crystal meth, ecstasy, weed, alcohol, just about anything I could get my hands on,” he…
With at least a year remaining on his parole, Maurice Cathy hunkered down to spend 14 months in the culinary training and recovery program at the Bay Area Rescue Mission. Cathy, 28, said he’s been in jail eight or nine times. Most recently, he had been in San Quentin for dealing drugs in Richmond. Six months after he began the recovery program, much to his surprise, Cathy’s sentence was commuted. He was free to go. But Cathy was determined to…
When Melvin Jenkins’ brother brought him to the Bay Area Rescue Mission earlier this year, Jenkins thought it was for a cooking job. And it was — sort of. Jenkins quickly realized that he had been fooled; the “job” was actually a 14-month drug recovery program, run in conjunction with an intensive culinary training course. Jenkins, who had worked previously at restaurants, said he has always had a passion for cooking. So he agreed to join the program. Six months…