The first meeting of City Council’s Task Force on the Commission of Architectural Review (CAR) is scheduled for Thursday, September 3, 2009, from 4-6PM, in the auditorium of the Richmond Fire Department Headquarters at 201 East Franklin Street. Subsequent meetings of the Task Force are planned at the same location on the first Thursday of [...]
Found in wtvr’s Video Vault, here is a 3/3/84 story about the Church Hill Housing Coalition’s renovation of a house.
A list of active civic organizations in the East End, towards fostering better communication and building more cohesive civic representation across the area.
The Church Hill Association yesterday made available online the last 5 months of association newsletter: [March] [April] [May] [June] [July].
A reader writes: “I as walking at the end of East Grace Street and I noticed some poles looked out of place. I just happened to have my camera at the time. Didn’t know who to contact.”
At the last CHA picnic, the artistic director of the Henly Street Theater Company James Ricks made the announcement that they were looking into the possibility of acquiring the vacant building on 24th Street just north of Broad Street for use as a theater space.
Defenders Forum @ Asbury; 2009 Summer Reenactment Series; RECYCLING WEEK; Tuesday St. John’s Knitting Circle; Beginning Computer Classes for Adults; Friends of Libby Hill Park IS NEXT WEEK; Garden Day at the NRC; Open Mic @ Poe’s; New Vision Civic League meeting; MORE…
Congressman Bobby Scott (VA 3rd District) will be holding a Richmond Health Care Community Forum on Thursday, September 3, from 7-8:30PM at the General Assembly Building. Congressman Scott will do a brief presentation on H.R. 3200, the America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. Afterward the Congressman will take questions from the audience. This event [...]
The Historic Richmond Foundation is looking for a little gardening help: We are a local nonprofit that is looking for a caretaker of a lovely historic garden property that we own in the St. John’s Church Historic District. We need someone who can spend one to two hours every morning, 5-6 days a week, walking [...]
In northside they are pretending to be from the elementary school, around here they are selling magazine subscriptions: Last night at around 6:30 pm on the 2200 block of Grace St. a black man in his early twenties rang our doorbell. He was wearing a white button down shirt. My girlfriend answered and he proceeded [...]
Redlining Richmond: Investigate the centrality of race in the politics & on the landscape of Richmond in the late 1930s…
The city’s recently released Neighborhood Statistics January-June 2009 (PDF) reports that Church Hill North leads the city in vacant houses, with 99 vacant structures and a vacancy rate of 11.72%. Church Hill North also has 32 of the city’s 106 vacant lots.
Approximately 75 volunteers from Church Hill will help build a new playground at Chimborazo Park on Thursday, Sept. 10. Like an old-fashioned barnraising, the new playground will be built from start to finish in one day.
Audio recordings from city council and committee meetings are now being made available through the page for the City Clerk (or more directly). The goal is to have the audio available the day after the meeting.
1) Set found at Chimborazo Park yesterday about 6PM. The key chain has two fobs and two keys on it. Call (804)539-1239 and describe the keys if they’re yours. 2) Set found on 1200 block of N.23rd Street, like somebody lost’em getting out of a car. Call (804)564-1360 to claim’em.
