Thanks the new Shockoe Examiner for tipping us off to the online archive of the Richmond Planet. My first search for “Fairmount” turned up this page with a advert for new lots in Woodville (PDF). Pretty cool.
Contributed by Bryan Nolde (Capital News Service) The most recent Friends of Jefferson Park meeting featured a presentation on plans to renovate Jefferson Park over the next year.
A reader asks: “I’m looking for a house painter who won’t run off with my money or fall of a ladder while he’s drunk and sue me. Got any suggestions?”
After 18 months of vacancy since closing in early 2008, something is going on at the Sunny Market on 25th Street.
The RTD takes a look at the controversy surrounding hanging your clothes out to dry: “I call my clothesline my solar dryer,” said Lisa Taranto, a green activist and director of the community Tricycle Gardens, who hangs laundry outside her East Broad Street home. [...] Opponents, however, see clotheslines as flags of poverty that create [...]
An iconic piece of Church Hill real estate is for sale; the commercial space across the street is for rent.
The residents of the row of new/renovated Better Housing Coalition houses on the 900 block of 26th Street have been delighted to have had sidewalks and street trees put in place. One resident said that, “I just got back in town last night after being away for a week and was totally amazed at the [...]
Saturday’s 7th District meeting hosted by City Council 7th District representative Betty Squire featured presentations by Derek Battle, Liaison Healthy Communites for RCH, representatives from the Department of Public Utilities on the new Storm Water Utility, and a 7th District Crime Stat Report by the First Precinct’s Captain Odetta Johnson.
A man is in the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after an overnight assault and robbery on 32nd Street. Sources at the scene say that the incident occurred inside one of the houses on the 400 block of 32nd Street, and that all parties were known to each to each other or to other people inside [...]
Contact Linda at lwikete@gmail.com if you’ve seen Sophie: Her name is Sophie, and she’s a Bengal. She’s pretty small and is used to wandering around but always comes home after a few hours. I live at 32nd and Broad and she usually stays pretty close to there. She wasn’t wearing a collar or anything, but [...]
Chris on the spot sends word that the already complex intersection at Jefferson/Clay/22nd is shut down: Police have a portion of the intersection of Jefferson Ave., Clay St., and N. 22nd (very close to Alamo BBQ) blocked due to what appears to be a break in a water main. They estimate it happened approximately 7:00am [...]
7th District Meeting with Betty Squire; VHDA Homeownership Education Program; Yard Sale @ Neighborhood Resource Center; 2009 Summer Reenactment Series; Tuesday St. John’s Knitting Circle; Beginning Computer Classes for Adults; Books on Wheels @ Robinson Theater; Garden Day at the NRC; Open Mic @ Poe’s; Miramar, Bolero Night at Que Pasa; Movie Night at Jefferson [...]
In response to Church Hill being named the “10th Most Dangerous Neighborhood in America”, Matt Conrad of the Union Hill Civic Association had data provided by Lt. Laino of Sector 111 that brings some perspective to the designation (PDF). The data makes very clear what residents of the Union Hill and Church Hill North already [...]
We’ve gotten an unconfirmed report of an assault at the Market at Tobacco Row at 23rd and Main Streets: within I think the last hour, a woman was assaulted right in front of The Market grocery store, they took her purse and bloodied her head. Some FedEx guys got a license plate, the police are [...]
