This week’s Richmond Free Press has a half-page article about Anthony M. Chandler, the Baltimore native who will be the new pastor at the 1,500 member Cedar Street Baptist Church, and some of the recent issues at the church. Chandler succeeds Dr.Benjamin Robertson Sr,. who has served Cedar Street for 52 years.
Sometime in the past few weeks and just shy of their 3rd year, Sunny Supermarket closed their doors.
Nighttime panorama of Shockoe and the city skyline as seen from Jefferson Park. The photographer, Tom Gehring, is considering selling copies of the photo. (larger!)
This wreath was recently found in an other wise dirty&dusty abandoned house. Was this stolen from you?
Notice has gone out of a request to rezone the Harper Hardware address (1709-1724 East Broad Street) from M-1 Light Industrial to B-5 Central Business, which would allow for residential and commercial development on the property.
Does anyone have an explanation for this?
The Church Hill Association membership meeting will be held this Tuesday, Jan. 15, at 7PM @ St. John’s Church Meeting Hall. The Union Hill Civic Association will meet at 7PM Wednesday in the Dr. Benjamin Robertson, Sr. Fellowship Hall @ Cedar Street Baptist Church.
Can anyone identify the location of this photo? I’m not even sure that this from up here, but the context makes me think that it is.
A man with a gun attempting to rob a home in the 700 block of North 32nd Street late last night was killed in the attempt. [via]
Applications to attend one of Richmond City’s open enrollment schools for the 2008-2009 school year are due Feb. 8. Open enrollment elementary schools are divided into three zones. The Zone III elementary schools are Bellevue, Ginter Park and Woodville, Binford Middle School is the city’s open enrollment middle school, and the open enrollment high schools [...]
I’m hearing about a development proposed for Cedar/Broad/18th/Marshall that could be *big*. It would be mixed use, residential and commercial, to wrap around McDonald’s and use the rest of the block, and 3 to 4 stories. There will be a meeting for a special use permit Monday, January 21 at 7PM at American Tobacco Center [...]
Join the Church Hill Planters and the Friends of Libby Hill Park, in cooperation with the City’s Departments of Urban Forestry and Park’s and Recreation on Saturday, January 19th 2008, from 9AM-1PM, as they join forces with some local professional arborists to prune some of our most special trees on Church Hill, in one of [...]
Neighborhood schools Fairfield Court Elementary and George Mason Elementary were among the 4 Richmond schools named today as winners of the Governor’s Award for Educational Excellence. [via] “Students in these schools are soaring far beyond the minimum requirements of the Standards of Learning and No Child Left Behind,” said Governor Kaine. “It speaks to the [...]
As the traffic and commentary has greatly increased around here recently, I would like to clarify the site policy on commenting.
From Waldo Jaquith, creator of cvillenews.com (the inspiration for this site), comes Richmond Sunlight, “a website that aggregates information about the General Assembly”. Keep an eye on what Dwight Jones, Jennifer McClellan, Henry Marsh, or any of the rest of the members of the Virginia House or Senate are up to.
