Everyone is invited to the 6th Annual Black History Month Extravaganza Sponsored by Delegate Delores McQuinn, 70th District, City Councilwoman 7th District representative Betty Squire, The Richmond Slave Trail Commission, and VCU, today at 2PM at Martin Luther King Jr Middle School.
As as yet unidentified 24-year-old male was shot to death just before 3AM Saturday in the 2300 block of Phaup Street in Fairfield Court. The police have a person in custody relating to this incident. Investigators would like anyone with information about this incident to call the Tips Line at 514-TIPS (8477) or call CrimeStoppers [...]
Richmond NAACP’s Founder’s Day Breakfast; ACORN presents: The Greening of an Old House; Tuesday St. John’s Knitting Circle; Beginning Computer Classes for Adults; The Liberty Lecture Series welcomes Stephen Berry; History of Liberia and its Connection to Richmond; Open Mic @ Honey Whyte’s; MORE…
The City of Richmond Department of Public Works today announced that work to complete the final phase of 25th Street Roundabout construction will necessitate the closing of the intersection of 25th Street, M Street, and Jefferson Avenue from Monday, March 2 until early April (weather permitting).
The RTD weighs in on the Oakwood Heights saga with an anonymous and ill-informed editorial today: The neighbors’ objections are primarily aesthetic. They consider the condo project insufficiently gracile, and not in keeping with the character of the neighborhood. In some respects we might incline to agree. But that objection does not override the more [...]
The monthly First Precinct Community Assisted Public Safety (CAPS) meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 11 at 6PM at the East District Initiative ( 701 N 25th St. 2nd Floor)
The March schedule for the Robinson is out with a full schedule of regular classes and events to kick things off! Sundays – East End Fellowship 4-6PM; Mondays – Youth Hip Hop 4-5PM; Tuesday&Thursday – Middle/High School Drama 4-5:30PM; Wednesday – Youth Modern/Jazz 4-5PM; Friday – Youth Tap 4-5PM. In addition to the recurring events, [...]
Que Pasa is finding is neighborhood niche as great hangout spot good for dinner and drinks, and they have been trying to spread the word about their specials: Monday is Dollar Burger Night; Tuesday is 20 Cent Wings Night/Nurses Night, with $2 domestics and $2 well drinks; Wednesday is Dollar Taco Night; Thursday offers 1/2 [...]
High interest votes from tonight include YES on a conservation easement along the James River and an vote to OVERTURN CAR‘s rejection of the most recent Oakwood Heights design.
ACORN presents another of it’s “Fix-It-Up” workshops, the first in a series on The Greening of an Old House, Saturday, February 28th,from 9AM-noon at St. John’s Church Parish Hall. Blue Crump of CityspaceConstruction and CityspaceSolar will present information about how to make your older house greener and more efficient. Cost is $15 ($10 for ACORN members) and [...]
The agenda for the City Council meeting on Monday (PDF) contains items of local interest including a conservation easement along the James River and either affirmation or denial of CAR‘s rejection of the most recent Oakwood Heights design.
Owners of lots and gravesites in City-owned and operated cemeteries are reminded that according to City Code all flowers, decorations and non-approved vases must be removed from lots and gravesites by March.1. This is to allow for the Cemeteries Division of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities to conduct its annual spring cleanup. [...]
The Church Hill Planters and the Friend of Libby Hill Park pulled together community volunteers to plant 24 new trees and mulch 40 existing trees in Libby Hill Park this morning. About 60 people turned out to help, including a solid contingent from the Richmond Tree Stewards.
THe RTD’s Michael Paul Williams delves into some of the recent shenanigans around here: Church Hill mysteries. First there were handouts to vote on the ballpark in the bottom. Then neighbors were uninvited to a meeting on development near Chimborazo. [...] Democracy is a wonderful thing. But ideally, the engagement of the masses should stem [...]
Central Montessori School pancake breakfast; Church Hill Creative Homemakers Society; Quantico Orienteering Club Event; Robinson Theater Grand Opening and Illumination; The J.O.B. (The Jim O’Ferrell Band); tree planting and mulching at Libby Hill Park; Tuesday St. John’s Knitting Circle; Beginning Computer Classes for Adults; CAR Meeting; Creating a Future Drawn from our Past: An Artist’s [...]
