Free Help With Income Taxes

For release March 28, 2007 Contact: Lloyd Madden 925-313-1736 Still time to get help with tax preparation from free program WHAT: Free tax preparation is still available for low- to moderate-income residents through the fourth annual Earn It! Keep It! Save It! (EKS)...

Peel & Stick

This is a little abstruse, so don”t continue if you are not willing to exercise your brain a little. Making a construction project down at the Richmond City Hall is like that proverbial sausage, something you really don”t want to watch. On April 3, 2007,...

Contra Costa Ties Reprises April 1 Surprise

CITY BEAT FOOLED AGAIN: The Richmond City Council may form a sister city relationship with Baghdad. Well, not really, but hundreds of people believed it for a little while last Sunday thanks to Richmond Councilman Tom Butt’s annual April Fools’ Day e-mail....

Getting a Handle on Broom

Click here for photos and a slide show of the French broom removal work party by volunteers at Miller-Knox Regional Shoreline Park in Pt. Richmond on Saturday, March 31. At least 32 people (of all ages, shapes, and stamina) joined staff from the East Bay Regional Park...

Richmond COPS At Work This Week

Click here for the Weekly Richmond Police Activity Report for the week of March 25 – 31. Here is an example from the report of proactive community policing in action: “Officer Tod Opdyke investigated an incident involving two individuals believed to be...