Hands On Greater Richmond is organizing a day of community action on Saturday, October 18th and wants you to “imagine how much better Richmond could be if we all spent just 5 hours doing something together for the community.”
Police responded this morning to a report of a body wrapped in a dark-colored tarp at 28th and Y Streets: Five police cruisers responded to the East End neighborhood. Officers secured a large area around the body with yellow crime-scene tape and began knocking on doors… [...] But when detectives arrived, they discovered the body [...]
Henry Boschen Jr., a Chesterfield resident that grew up on the hill, had a letter published in today’s RTD expressing his dismay at the condition of the park that he remembers so fondly from his childhood: A recent visit to Chimborazo Park left me astonished that the Old Weather Station is still being used as [...]
FYI: the GRTC site offers a trip planner which helps clarify which bus you’d need to get somewhere. The system map (PDF) shows where everything runs.
A reader sent in overnight this unconfirmed report of a new style of robbery: My roommates were held up at gunpoint Saturday night at 1:30 or so on their way home from Shockoe Bottom. They were walking and the incident happened on 26th and Franklin. A car pulled up and stopped at the corner, a [...]
National Night Out is Tuesday, August 5. Every year neighborhoods around the city and country host events on this night. Anybody got the scoop about anything planned for around here?
Liberty or Death Reenactment ; Planning Commission meeting on June 2008 Draft Downtown Master Plan; Beginning Computer Classes for Adults; open mic @ Poe’s Pub; A Presentation on Richmond Old & Historic Districts; Introduction to Organic Gardening by Tricycle Gardens; 7th District Town Hall Meeting; MORE…
The house at 2109 Fairmount Avenue is for sale by an absentee owner, Belinda Bentley, and has been on the market for some time. The realtor is the Chesterfield-based MAP Investments & Realty. Neither seem to care that the house sits vacant and the yard has grown wild this summer.
Ginger Warder visits Patrick Henry’s Pub for richmond.com and has some great things to say: Chef Nicolai Creatore, formerly of Millie’s, has created a true pub menu with affordable, approachable food that harks back to his Italian roots and cooking lessons from his mother. [...] Two of Creatore’s specialties that are already creating a buzz [...]
Word from The Richmond Neuter Project: Last chance for spay/neuter appointments for next week! As long as they are scheduled by Sunday, we might be able to get them in, depending on how many we have come in between now and then. First come, first served. RichmondNeuter@aol.com / www.richmondneuter.org / (804)646-0300
The next 7th District Town Hall Meeting, hosted by 7th District Council VP Delores McQuinn, will be held on Saturday, July 26th, from 11:30AM-1PM @ Mt. Tabor Baptist Church (2011 Fairmount Avenue).
If you are interested in playing (or learning to play) bridge, drop a line to womensbridge@aol.com. This group is just now forming and will meet at a home on 29th Street near Broad.
Richmond City has free smoke detectors for anyone that needs one. They will also come out and install them (free) and give you a battery (free) too. Call 646-1526 for more info.
The Church Hill Dog Park is officially open! The park opened quietly today, and the organizers plan on having a “doggie day” in late July or early August to really announce that the park is open. We’d like help supplying water until the city can get the spigots working (and during the winter months, too, [...]
