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Children rode ponies and a train and had their faces painted, while adults played in a 3-on-3 basketball tournament and danced to live music during the Iron Triangle’s community picnic.
The 18th Annual Iron Triangle Community Picnic is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, and organizers hope that it continues a trend that in recent years has seen growing crowds at the picnic and renewed faith in community.
“Vacation Bible School” takes on new meaning when classes are held near Mayan temples and jaguar jungles. But for eight Richmond Baptist Church members, that’s exactly what they got during the last week in June when they visited the small and impoverished Central American country of Belize.
From 2005 to 2010, at least 28 homicides occurred in the county area of North Richmond alone, an area with a population that has averaged about 2,300 people.
George Livingston Jr. is a born and bred local celebrity historian who has spent decades amassing a trove of photos, clippings and other memorabilia relating mostly to celebrities who have swept through Richmond.
This summer marks thirty years since the first AIDS diagnosis. Since then, advancements in anti-retroviral drugs used to treat the disease and better disease management practices have rolled out every few years. But until 2004, the way that health providers tested for HIV, the infection that causes AIDS, remained the same. Now, clinics can deliver results instantly, and that has big implications.
Less than one week since a flurry of Sunday night gunfire left three dead and three wounded in Richmond and North Richmond, police and sheriffs are still looking for answers.
On Tuesday night by the Richmond City Council unanimously voted to approve the issuing of municipal ID cards. The cards are intended to improve public safety, increase civic participation and support local commerce.
For more than a decade, one man has been the de facto elected representative of the nearly 3,000 residents of unincorporated North Richmond.