The School Board approved a plan that will move students in eight elementary schools in order to absorb students from Whitcomb Court Elementary. The board rejected a plan that would’ve kept the students together by moving them to the Martin Luther King Middle School campus. [via]
The 7th District Round Table met this evening for the first time. Chaired by the Sharon Burton, the meeting was designed to move towords getting the new system, a replacement for the Neighborhood Teams, up and running.
The Mayor’s Neighborhood Roundtable Meeting for 7th District is tonight at 6pm at East District Center (701 North 25th Street). The goal of the meeting is to establish a means to provide grass-roots community feedback to the City Administration. Meet and share your concerns, ideas and vision with the 7th District Roundtable Representative, Sharon Burton.
The Union Hill Association is having a Meet and Greet this Friday, March 24th, at 6pm on the 500 Block of 22nd street (inside 516 if the weather is bad). If you live in Union Hill and want to be a part of the newly-reborn association, come on out! BYOB.
Two people were wounded last night at about 10:20pm in a shooting in the 900 block of North 20th Street. Police were looking for three men seen leaving the area in a late-model sedan. [via]
unreasonable weighs in with a short essay The Evils of Gentrification Exposed at the newish Richmond Blog Seven Hills Chronicle [via].
Hot off the presses, here are the meeting minutes for the North of Broad Historic District Meeting Minutes from 2/7/06.
A man whose body was found in the James River on Sunday morning was identified as Stone Edward Hope, 57, of the 3200 block of P Street. Mr. Hope had been reported missing nearly two weeks earlier. According to a Henrico County police spokesman, there were no obvious signs of trauma to Hope’s body. [via]
The Church Hill Crime Watch meeting and the 7th District Town Hall meeting were both tonight. We went to the crime watch meeting — maybe someone else can tell us about the townhall meeting? We’ll post more tomorrow; feel free to post your questions/reaction to/about the meeting. The bonus take-away from the meeting? Check out [...]
If you are so compelled, you can now order a chpn logo t-shirt.
From Laura Daab, Neighborhood Block Captain Program Chair: There will be a Church Hill Crime Watch meeting tomorrow, Tuesday (3/14) at the Libby Hill Park House from 7-8pm. The meeting will be moderated by Shelby Long with Lt. Snawder giving crime stats and review the past year. He will also have a Q&A session. You [...]
In How to achieve: no complaints and no excuses, Mark Holmberg tells the story about 2 amazing brothers Xavier and Zachary Lane.
Officers called to the intersection of Burton and Jessamine just after 4:30am Saturday found a black male in his mid-40s to late 50′s facedown in the alley. Residents say they heard gunshots around 2:30am but didn’t think the shots were coming from the area. [via]
Warm on the heels of January’s meeting, another 7th District Town Meeting has been announced.
