Following are newsletters from East Brother Lighthouse for the past two months. If you would like to subscribe. Click below: East Brother Light Station May 2009 In This Issue We Have Our Geese in a Row! Secrets from Anne's Galley Join us on Facebook! Dear Jutta, This...

Carl Pope Executive Director of the Sierra Club http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-pope/debating-chevron_b_214444.html Posted: June 11, 2009 03:14 PM Chevron's CEO, Dave O'Reilly, and I debated for an hour last night at the Commonwealth Club. We got to the bottom of...

Summer Brenner, the West Contra Costa Unified School District, and Community Works invite you to the opening event for: Richmond Tales Lost Secrets of the Iron Triangle Kick-Off Event Thursday, June 18 at 3:30 pm Richmond Public Library Terrace 325 Civic Center Plaza,...

2009 Bay Area JUNETEENTH Victory Awards Gala Benefiting the Hamilton T. Boswell Foundation Thursday, June 18 VIP Reception 6-7PM Dinner,Entertainment & Awards, 8 PM Craneway Pavilion 1414 Harbour Way South $100 Corporate Sponsorships Available See flyer

News: State Fines UC, Zeneca for Richmond Toxics Disposal By Richard Brenneman Thursday June 11, 2009 The Planet needs your help. Give to the Fund for Local Reporting! The state has fined UC Berkeley and an international agropharmaceutical corporation a total of...

From West County Indicators project: Just a friendly reminder to" Please join us on Monday June 15th at 6 pm in Richmond for a community forum to release the West County Indicators Project"s major report: Measuring What Matters: Neighborhood Research for Economic and...

A place known for harboring quirkiness Carolyn Jones, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, June 10, 2009 John Kingham strode along the wobbly, rotting dock at Point San Pablo Yacht Harbor and lovingly surveyed his neighborhood of the past two decades - the rusty dredging...

area (See http://www.contracostatimes.com/search/ci_12553698?IADID=Search-www.contracostatimes.com-www.contracostatimes.com), including a new one in Point Richmond (Farmer's Markets in Richmond Expand with Point Richmond Debut, May 28, 2009), I don"t want to neglect...

A Park Grows in Richmond How one dedicated woman is trying to improve life in a tough city, playground by playground. By Erin Gilmore East Bay Express Printer-friendly version | Send a letter | E-mail story June 9, 2009 Bitch bitch I ♥--%$#@ " hot bitch" is scrawled...

Judge deals setback to Chevron refinery plan David R. Baker, Chronicle Staff Writer Tuesday, June 9, 2009 Chevron Corp.'s long-planned, highly contentious project to revamp its Richmond oil refinery has been thrown into doubt, with company executives and local...

Sometimes described as a "pirate harbor," Point San Pablo Yacht Harbor is one of Richmond"s most mysterious outposts occupying a rare banana belt of perennial warm weather at the end of an four-mile dead end road. I first discovered the area when I began working on...

Donna Graves, who as a consultant for the City of Richmond and the National Park Service over more than a decade, has provided services for many studies and features related to Rosie the Riveter WW II Home Front National Historical Park has been selected for the...

The Point Richmond Summer Music Festival debuts this Friday, July 12 at 5:30 PM, and continues July 12, August 14, September 11 and September 25. Click here for detailed information. The schedule for this Friday is: " 5:30-6:30 ~ The New Iberians Blues and Zydeco Band...

Summer Film Festival on the Red Oak Victory Ship (Richmond, CA) " Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park and the Richmond Museum of History Association will present a WWII Home Front Film Festival in June, July and August 2009. The film...

The Point Richmond Summer Music Festival debuts this Friday, June 12 at 5:30 PM, and continues July 10, August 14, September 11 and September 25. Click here for detailed information. The schedule for this Friday is: " 5:30-6:30 ~ The New Iberians Blues and Zydeco Band...

Visit www.rosietheriveter.org for fun and educational tours and events at Rosie the Riveter WW II Home Front National Historical Park, only in Richmond, for kids ages 8 to 108. For more information, contact: Elizabeth Tucker, Park Ranger Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home...

Court rules against Chevron, city of Richmond in environmental review By Katherine Tam West County Times Posted: 06/05/2009 06:05:46 PM PDT Updated: 06/05/2009 06:23:21 PM PDT A Contra Costa Superior Court judge has ruled that the environmental document covering...

In a Thursday morning talk show, KGO"s Brian Copeland spent an hour trashing Richmond and encouraging even reluctant callers to do likewise. Copeland"s theme was questioning why a city with "the highest murder rate in California" should be spending $87,000 on a...

Following is a link to the ProArts East Bay Open Studios going on this weekend and next: http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/364085/63e59740aa/1495001068/e90b03c845/ I particularly want to highlight Gary Becker"s Studio, which will be open on Saturday and Sunday, June...

Martin Luther King, Jr. Park at the corner of Harbour Way South and Cutting Boulevard, adjacent to Nystrom School, is already the recipient of a $2.5 million Murray Hayden Grant from California State parks to be used to rehabilitate facilities. The Oakland Raider"s...