This map from 1888, scanned from Chesson’s Richmond After the War 1865-1890, shows some alternate names for the alphabet streets north of Leigh: M, N, O, P, and Q Streets are also labeled as Mason, Nelson, Otis, Pendleton, and Quince Streets, respectively.
A photographic cross section of the neighborhood: the northwest corner of every intersection on 28th Street…
The agenda for Monday’s City Council meeting has a few items of specific neighborhood interest, including the request for all-way stops on Venable, the installation of telecommunications equipment on 38th Street, waiving setback requirements on 24th Street, and funding the Mechanicsville Turnpike and Mosby Street Hazard Elimination Safety Project.
The Church Hill Association site has the agenda for the upcoming Commission of Architectural Review meeting set for March 25 at 3:30PM @ City Hall. Includes projects on 32nd, 29th, Leigh, Marshall, etc; nothing controversial.
The RTD is reporting 7th District Richmond School Board representative Keith West call for a consolidation of some school system and city departments: “It makes no sense for us to be duplicating services the city already provides [...] Why do we need two accounts-payable departments when the city is doing the banking anyway?” In related [...]
Style Weekly’s Suspensions Outnumber Students at City School takes a look at the 485 suspensions last year at award-winning Fairfield Court Elementary School, a school with only 398 students.
Style Weekly’s Word & Image has the word on the former chicken joint on Mosby just north of Venable: [Now it's going to be] a coffee shop. I’m a coffee drinker; at the same time, everybody needs an Internet and a sandwich and, during the summer, a barbecue. Fax machine, copy machine, in New York [...]
The Mar.13/15 issue of the Richmond Free Press has a story about how Mount Olivet Church will be holding services in other locations around the greater Richmond area in a bid to gain new members (with an emphasis on multiculturalism). There will be an Easter Service at the West Tower Cinemas on West Broad and [...]
Recycling; Beginning Computer Classes for Adults; Church Hill Association meeting; open mic @ Poe’s Pub; VAWN public forum; UHCA/Union Hill Old and Historic District Study Group meeting & Friends of Jefferson Park; Union Hill clean-up; MORE…
Style Weekly’s The Insubordinate, a profile of Richmond PTA leader Tichi Pinkney-Eppes and her take on the Richmond Public School, includes as damning evidence a piece on the issues of a parent of a 9-year-old student at Chimborazo Elementary.
The United House of Prayer has invites one and all to visit them tomorrow on Chimborazo Boulevard: We would be honored to have you as our special guest during our Palm Sunday (“Friends’ Day”) worship service at the United House of Prayer For All People in Richmond, Virginia on Sunday, March 16, 2008 beginning at [...]
The regular meeting of the Public Safety Committee of City Council will be moved to the Renaissance Conference Center (107 West Broad Street) on Monday, 3/17 @ 3PM. On the agenda for the meeting are: 1) the need for greater police presence along Broad Street, 2) the need to remove prostitutes, panhandlers, and drug dealers [...]
Support the Richmond Firefighters @ this year’s Church Hill Irish Festival! They will be shaving their heads in solidarity of children with cancer and collecting donations to help fight childhood cancer. At the Richmond Firefighters team page you can donate online or download the donation form to print out and mail in.
From the Office of the Press Secretary: Mayor L. Douglas Wilder announced today the beginning of a month-long “Give Us the 4-1-1″ campaign to help the City improve its new 311 Call Center to handle citizen requests for municipal services. Residents can dial 311 to report potholes, downed trees, utility issues, request social services, and [...]
