Supervisor John Gioia, a BCDC commissioner, not only made a bad vote on the Richmond-San Rafael bridge non-solution for congestion – but he bragged about it. From John Gioia’ Facebook page yesterday:   A Sensible Plan for Cars and Bikes to Share the...

Burrows & Dilbeck and Big Blu Soul Revue on Friday, August 11!   Burrows & Dilbeck and Big Blu Soul Revue Funk Up the Fun!     Design by Bette Tarr      You don't want to miss the third installment of our 2025 free...

Another way to celebrate Richmond’s birthday.   Enjoy Breakfast and Live Music on Red Oak Victory!   Your Pancakes will be ready in Three Days! The Red Oak Victory Summer Pancake Breakfast is this weekend on Sunday, August 10! 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Dear...

The City of Richmond turns 120 years old today. There are many ways to celebrate.   Richmond’s oldest building is East Brother Lighthouse is 151 years old this year, 31 years older than the City of Richmond. Help save East Brother by making a birthday...

Next Club Meeting Our next meeting will take place at the Richmond Golf Club on Friday, August 8, 12:30pm. PLEASE NOTE: The gate code is #8631 Richmond Main Street - Downtown Updates  Sarah Wally RMSI, formed for the revitalization of...

From Steve Seskin:   Hi there,   I’m sorry for the late reminder. Things have been pretty busy. I’m at a folk festival in Colorado as I write this. I’ll be home on Friday and on Sunday we will have our 2nd Sunday of the month free music gathering featuring...

I discovered the newspaper article below, “Scientists Doing Secret Defense Work,” on the back of an article on a different subject in some family letters   It was only in 1938 that German physicists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman discovered nuclear...

On May 23, 2025, a fire damaged one of the two historic homes of the former Japanese nursery at Miraflores. In my E-FORUM of May 23 2025, I wrote,:   Today, a fire seriously damaged the historic structures at Miraflores. I have been asking repeatedly (while I was...

  Next Club Meeting Our next meeting will take place at the Richmond Golf Club on Friday, August 1, 12:30pm. PLEASE NOTE: The gate code is # 8631 Contra Costa Mosquito and Vector Control Andrew Pierce This presentation will detail the...

East Brother, can you spare a dime? Historic lighthouse in the Bay needs funds for repairs by Samantha Kennedy, Bay City NewsJuly 27, 2025 FILE: East Brother Island Light Station on East Brother Island in the San Rafael Bay, near the tip of Point San Pablo on...

PRESS RELEASE Photo courtesy Bay Area News Group Save East Brother Lighthouse For more information, contact: Tom Butt, President East Brother Light Station, Inc, (a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation) 117 Park Place Richmond CA 94801 510-220-1577 Tom.butt@intres.com  ...

Greetings!   See invitation below and attached flyer from EPA for a Zoom discussion about the United Heckathorn Superfund Site on Tuesday 7/29 at 6:30pm. DTSC will be present, along with community partners, and we hope to see you there!     Warm...

This will be the last E-FORUM posting of Cecilia King’s Extraordinary Senior Trip. She is on the way to San Francisco on the SS Lurline to catch a train to Los Angeles and then home to Arkansas, where she starts school at the University of Arkansas in the fall...

I am in the process of writing my recollections from being mayor of Richmond 2015-2023. Click here for the first installment.

Beginning on November 1, 2024, which is the date of my mother’s first letter from her Hawaii trip 84 years ago, I am serializing day by day, the book, Cecilia King’s Extraordinary Senior Trip, which you can obtain from Amazon in either Kindle or paperback.   I...

California reaches new record clean energy milestone Solar, wind, and other renewable and carbon-free sources hit new peak     WEED, CALIFORNIA – AUGUST 03: An array of solar panels collects sunshine in the foreground of Mount Shasta in Weed, Calif.,...

Beginning on November 1, 2024, which is the date of my mother’s first letter from her Hawaii trip 84 years ago, I am serializing day by day, the book, Cecilia King’s Extraordinary Senior Trip, which you can obtain from Amazon in either Kindle or paperback.   I...

My younger brother by three years, Martin, joined the Marines and survived Vietnam in 1966-67 with a purple heart but suffered a fatal automobile accident less than two years after coming home. He would have been 78 years old tomorrow, Bastille Day, but he is,...

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Beginning on November 1, 2024, which is the date of my mother’s first letter from her Hawaii trip 84 years ago, I am serializing day by day, the book, Cecilia King’s Extraordinary Senior Trip, which you can obtain from Amazon in either Kindle or paperback....