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The El Cerrito Police Department hosted a Pokémon Go block party to connect with the community and raise awareness of potential hazards to players.
Current local public school students and graduates are working to improve local public school education through SFER and SFER AN.
All nine candidates for the Richmond City Council weighed in at a question-and-answer style forum at the Hilltop Community Church last Thursday night, where jobs, health care, and above all rent control dominated the discussion.
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.
Some groups in Richmond are coming together and others are clashing in the wake of a recent spate of shootings that has rocked the community.
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.
In November, Richmond residents will vote on Measure M, an ordinance to raise the “documentary transfer tax” that property owners are required to pay on real estate sales.
Residents at the Creekview Condominiums on the border of Richmond and El Sobrante are packing their belongings after receiving notices over the last two months that they must vacate the property.
Beverly Hills-based real estate developer PMI Properties cited moisture and mold in terminating leases for the 114 units. Residents, however, contend that the terminations are just in time for Richmond’s upcoming vote on rent control. If Measure L passes in November, landlords will have to pay a relocation fee to each resident evicted. At present, tenants just have to move on.
On Sunday, lowriders from Richmond and beyond gathered on 23rd Street for a “Cruise for Peace” in the wake of recent gun violence.