Source: https://www.siliconvalley.com/, June 20, 2023
By: William McCarthy

Martinez has long been a refinery town. Generations have worked at the sprawling complex on the east side of the city that defines the skyline.

For more than a century, to live in Martinez, a city of 36,000 near San Pablo Bay, has been to co-exist with the silver smoke stacks of heavy industry. The risks go along with the fun runs the oil refinery hosts and its sponsorship of the Chamber of Commerce. Read more.