“The city’s Department of Community Development this week notified the chairmen of all nine teams that their groups would no longer be officially recognized. Instead, the Wilder administration wants to open new channels to reach out to residents and to reorganize the way neighborhoods share their concerns and proposals with city officials”. [via]

Richmond School officials are looking into allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct against the principal of Armstrong High School, Carl Vaughan. None of the claims involve students. [via]

Four-year-old Jamira Commander was last seen on the 2000 block of Accommodation Street wearing blue pants with a red patch and a red coat with white fur. She was wearing her hair in braids.

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Daniel Lee Veney was acquitted in in the July 2 shooting death of transvestite John Walker in the 2000 block of North 29th Street. [via]

The RTD has a long article about the recent renovation at Richmond Hill, “the first major renovation since the mid-1920s”.

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The Richmond Voice has a long article about gentrification and restoration, mentioning some perceived positives/negatives and spotlighting the work of Bishop Richard Hall .

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On November 17th, the National Park Service announced the listing of the Fairmount School, currently senior housing, on the National Register of Historic Places.

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An unidentified 19-year-old Richmond man was fatally shot yesterday in the 700 block of Mosby Street. Omari Al-Qadaffi was arrested hours after the shooting and charged with murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. [via]

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We walked the entire Church Hill Christmas House Tour yesterday, hitting all of the tour houses and most of the open houses along the way.

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There will be a silent art auction this Saturday at the Pohlig Box Factory.

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Today’s RTD has an article saying that “blacks were more than twice as likely as whites to live in neighborhoods where air pollution seems to pose the greatest health dangers”. The page lets you check your area for pollution.

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An unidentified man was shot in the head at 29th and O streets around 8pm last night in a possible carjacking. The man had apparently been selling shoes and other items from the back of his van at the time of the shooting. [via]

nbc12 is reporting a nonfatal shooting at 21st and Clay Streets today. A contractor was shot in the leg while attempting to stop someone from stealing his tools.

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A juvenile has been arrested in last Thursday’s shooting at 21st and Clay Streets. Police say they also have strong leads on a second suspect.

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A stack of photocopied archives covering 2001-2003 of news/satire sheet Hill People is available at the Hill Cafe.

Police yesterday identified four teenagers arrested in connection with the Dec.14 shooting of Haashim Abdul at 29th and O Streets. [via]

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Style Weekly has an article about the Urban Garden Project, a cooperative effort between the 4-H Club and the Planters’ Association of Church Hill.

So now the city is now behind getting a new stadium built in Fulton Bottom at the site of the former Gas Works. [via] [via]

By the end of February, building inspectors will become sworn officers, “special conservators of the peace”, able to write a summons on the spot. [via]