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Richmond Yacht Club invites you to come and learn to sail a small boat at their annual family-friendly event, which is open to everyone, with no sailing experience required. Enjoy a fun day on the water Saturday, March 4th, and try your hand at sailing a variety of different boats.
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Richmond Firefighters responded to calls for an encampment fire in the East Richmond neighborhood alongside the I- 80 freeway Sunday morning. The fire, which sent black smoke billowing through the neighborhood mid-Sunday morning, led firefighters to an encampment adjacent to I-80 at the Solano Street overpass, where crews worked to
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Renovations have started at the old Civic Center motel site as national hotel chain Motel 6 begins rebranding the property at the corner of 24th and Preble Avenue. Built in 1957, the 49-room property was previously a Travel Lodge during the 1990s before its more recent incarnation as the Civic
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Richmond firefighters have recently responded to a number of calls for engulfed vehicles which they say pose a real hazard to both firefighters and property in the community. According to members of Richmond Firefighters Local 188, they respond to countless vehicle fires on a weekly basis. A video posted to
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St. Francis Yacht Club is hosting an event honoring the life of Richmond artist Jim Dewitt which includes a luncheon and "celebration of a life well sailed and painted." DeWitt passed away in November at the age of 92. Well-known in the sailing world as a racer, artist,
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A substitute teacher was reportedly fired after shoving a student to the ground at Richmond High School today, according to KTVU. The incident, caught on a widely circulated video, shows a substitute teacher throwing a student to the ground and shoving him out of a classroom. Video shows Richmond teacher
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Richmond High School students and faculty were evacuated and classes were canceled today due to the "smell of something burning" inside the main part of campus. Crews are currently working to locate the smell and fix the issue. Yesterday, just before the end of the school day, the
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May Valley neighborhood residents rose to find they had no running water this morning thanks to a water main break, with repairs expected to run well into the late afternoon before water service could be potentially restored to the area. The water main, located on May Road near Renee Court,
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Residents have been evacuated in Richmond's seacliff neighborhood after Mayor Tom Butt was alerted to a potential slide developing on the hillside directly above several homes. According to a post on the Mayor's E-Forum website, "City Manager Curl called in Cal Engineering & Geology Inc.
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Costco is asking for residents' feedback as the company contemplates whether or not to build a new store at the former Hilltop Mall site. Hilltop Mall, now known as Hilltop Horizon, was purchased in February 2021 by Prolgois Real Estate Investment Trust Company with the intention of building a
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Students from St. David School made a visit to Station 66 this week contributing toys and a little Christmas cheer to Richmond Firefighters Local 188's annual holiday toy program which serves Richmond families in need. The offerings, collected as part of a school project aimed to contribute to
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Officers recovered numerous shell casings near Wendel Park after responding to a ShotSpotter activation and citizen calls reporting gunfire. Police responded to the area of 2600 Esmond Avenue after residents reported they heard numerous gunshots around 6:42 pm on December 11th. ShotSpotter also detected about 15 rounds fired. Officers