Starting next July, sewer rates for residents within the Richmond Municipal Sewer District will go up 5 percent annually until July 2014. The rate increase will affect about half of Richmond residents, including more than 16,000 single-family residential units and approximately 2,000 multifamily residential units and 2,000 commercial units. The rate fees for the Richmond …
The Eighth Annual San Francisco DocFest opens this Saturday at the Roxie offering two weeks of more than 50 nonfiction films and videos including a film produced by Olivier Bonin, a Mission resident. Bill Banning, one of the DocFest programmers, said the documentaries chosen for the festival can be fun or serious but must be entertaining. The following …
More than a hundred Richmond residents were happy to get a free food scrap pail during the Juneteenth event on June 19th at Nichol Park. The environmental staff from the Manager’s department of the city was handing out pails to promote its new food scrap collection program that makes it possible for residents to mix …
A woman nobody has seen before uses the office phone. A man from the street comes asking for socks. The hungry are welcome to get lunch. That’s an ordinary Wednesday at the Day Labor Program center. “I have a feeling of protection coming here,” said Ismael Flores while standing outside of the center. He’s a …
Many of the local elections in Tuesday’s direct primary vote were still too close to call as of 9 p.m., but at least one county seat appears safe for the incumbent. A confident John Gioia thanked supporters, including Richmond Police Chief Chris Magnus and city councilmen Jeff Ritterman and Tom Butt, at an election-night party …
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The 10 Women Campaign will honor 10 women Saturday at ODC for their work as bridge builders who bring together disparate communities. The award recipients include Mestranda Márcia “Cigarra” Treidler, the president and artistic director of ABADÁ-Capoeira in San Francisco and Karen Heisler co-owner of Mission Pie and co-founder of Pie Ranch. “The quiet and persistent activism of these women is deep and …
More fires are reported on July 4th than any other day of the year in the United States, according to the National Fire Data Center. Last year there were five wildfires in Richmond on the 4th of July. There were none this year but “We’re anticipating a lot today,” if people continue to use fireworks said …
When the owner of a dry cleaners in the Mission District received graffiti notices from the city, it never occurred to her to ask her landlord to take care of the tagging. Fixing property damage was not part of her lease agreement, but the letters were directed to her business name, so she assumed she …
Politicians, dancers, a Corvette convoy, horses and more paraded from 21st Street and Cutting Boulevard to 37th Street and MacDonald Avenue celebrating the annual Juneteenth Festival this Saturday morning. The festivities continued in the afternoon at Nichol Park, where people gathered to enjoy live music, food and sneak a peak at about 40 community and …
In an effort to build community and prevent crime, the City of Richmond celebrated the 27th annual National Night Out Tuesday with block parties throughout the city. The city joined 35 million citizens around the country in celebration. Police officers and firefighters visited 24 different neighborhoods across Richmond that were holding block parties. City officials including Police …