10 things to do in Richmond this week
Highlights include: A celebration of girls’ sports, an upcoming forum to meet the candidates running for Richmond City Council and the second annual Norooz celebration, this year dedicated in solidarity to…
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Fast-casual Palestinian food, Ohlone cuisine, hand-pulled noodles, and barbecue highlight East Bay’s February openings
Lulu’s Little Kitchen, ‘ammatka, Ox 9 and Saints Smokehouse were just a few of the restaurants to recently debut.
Ox 9, Cafe Bolita, Rice Dynasty, FOB West and more East Bay openings
A running list of restaurants that have recently opened in Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, and beyond.
Richmond area poised to receive nearly $40M to improve air quality, public health
Residents at a community meeting in North Richmond weighed in on what they’d like to see the money spent on, including more parks, safer streets and cleaner air.
City
Richmond officers cleared for fatally shooting man in mental health crisis
Marine reservist Angel Montaño, 27, was shot and killed last August by police officers responding to a call for help from his family.
Community
Celebrating Betty Reid Soskin’s life: Civil Rights storyteller, park ranger, songstress
About 1,000 people gathered in Oakland Sunday to honor “Miss Betty,” once the nation’s oldest park ranger, whose vision helped ensure Richmond’s Rosie the Riveter museum was inclusive of all experiences.
The Barbary and Gus’s no longer serving, plus the final weekend for Tiger’s Taproom
A running list of restaurants that have recently closed in Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, and beyond.
SCHOOLS
WCCUSD layoffs: Art and music teachers, support staff are hardest hit — plus JROTC
The WCCUSD school board has approved cutting the equivalent of about 300 full-time jobs to help solve a $127 million deficit and avoid state takeover.
Public safety
PG&E’s armed security has El Cerrito school community on edge
The Fairmont Elementary community doesn’t want a private military service that works with ICE and Homeland Security near their school.
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Richmondside’s Alejandra Armstrong recognized as ‘unsung hero’ by SPJ NorCal
As audience engagement editor, Armstrong ensures reaching and serving readers is always top of mind — from social media posts to headlines, public events and our email newsletters.
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Inside a reporter’s 3-year effort to investigate the deaths of 2 men after forced sedations
Richmondside reporter Joel Umanzor shares how he used public records and drew on personal relationships to tell the stories of Jose Luis Lopez and Ivan Gutzalenko.
Richmondside: Built on a foundation of listening
How do you build an outlet for local journalism that is rooted in, representative of, and responsive to communities in a city as diverse, complex, and powerful as Richmond? The answer is listening. We talked to hundreds of Richmond residents who told us what they want from local journalism. Here’s what we learned.
