Garage has McQuinn in hot water
Richmond City Council Vice President Delores McQuinn will appear in Richmond General District Court May 22 due to code violations on the garage of her house undergoing renovation at 31st and Broad Streets. [via]
Archive for May 2007
New hours for Jumpin’J's
The latest newsletter from the Church Hill Market announced that Jumpin’ J’s Java is now open for dinner hours — until 11PM on Tuesday-Sunday!
this week’s calendar
Church Hill Association meeting, Friends of Jefferson Park and the Union Hill Civic Association Neighborhood Potluck Picnic, Mobile Mammography Van @ Edloe’s Pharmacy, Historic Tax Credit Seminar, Libby Park Yard Sale, Church Hill Games, AND MORE…
ANGER + ART = CHANGE
The first Anger + Art = Change Exhibition opened last night at the Mad Works Gallery located at 2505 East Broad Street #100. The gallery will also be open today and tomorrow from 1-6pm.
Brick looks at Cossit’s “Devils are Real”
The 4/26 issue of Brick Weekly had a review (by Vittorio Colaizzi) of Nicholas Cossit’s “Devils are Real”, the most recent show at the Eric Schindler Gallery.
accident at 25th and M Streets
wric.com and nb12.com are reporting a two-car accident that spilled over into a crowded bus-stop outside of EDI at 25th and M Streets.
The Defender attacks
Invoking Don Imus, the article Church Hill gentrifier says it’s hard living around poor people in the May/June issue of the leftist Richmond Defender quotes an Aug 2006 email to Church Hill Neigborhood Block Captains and a comment on this site in a character assassination piece on Laura Daab (leader of the CH Block Captain [...]
Church Hill Association Board Elections
Elections for Church Hill Association Board Members will take place at the May Membership Meeting (15 May 2007 at St. John’s Church Parish Hall),. There are six elected positions to be filled: VP, Assistance Treasurer, Secretary, and three Board Members At Large. If you would like to nominate anyone or vote please be at the [...]
West keeps on keeping on
Save Richmond points out and brings clarification to a recent 7-2 decision by the Richmond School Board to continue litigation over funding. 7th District School Board representative Keith West was one of the 2 votes against.
ART 180 looking for 180 great recipes
Katy Thomas, Development Director for ART 180, is spreading the word about a special cookbook that ART 180 needs your help in putting together.
at or under $225,500?
In What will $222,000 buy?, the RTD looks what is available at the median cost for a single-family home, and cites a couple moving into Church Hill as saying that a “major selling point was a tax abatement allowed by the city for a historic renovation”. The median price of a single-family home in the [...]
Issues from Gaston linger
Almost 3 years after Gaston collapsed the road in front of her house and 3 months after the road reopened, Jennifer Branch is still having a difficult time getting back into her house at 31st and Grace. [via].
Scott guilty in Holt murder
Jamar Tyron Scott was found guilty of second-degree murder for the August 2006 shooting of Holt Smith Jr. [via].
