In what appears to be an increased focus on holding the owners of dilapidated property accountable, court dates over the next 3 months for more than 30 offenders across the city were released yesterday. Notable are Oliver Lawrence’s days on October 23rd and 26th. Locally, the list includes addresses on North 35th Street, North 24th [...]
There have been a spate of prostitution arrests in the Fairmount area recently. Word from Sector 113′s Lt.Harrison is that the court date for those arrested will be November 20, 2009 at 9:30AM.
The previously mentioned Storm Water Assessments are hitting mailboxes around the city. WTF is the Storm Water Assessment you ask? Just like water, sewer, gas, and other vital utility services, users are charged a fee for the service of controlling stormwater. The stormwater management fee would apply to all developed properties, including homes, businesses, and [...]
Style Weekly’s Top 40 Under 40 2009 is out and includes Sheila Sheppard, Roderyck I. Bullock, and Lucas Krost. Anybody else on the list have a local connection?
Local photographer Alison has recently put together This Property is Condemned, a record of the “uninhabited, unwanted and forgotten houses of Richmond, Virginia’s Church Hill.” Her first post is a look at 1211 North 26th Street.
F.T.Rea gives an overview of and opinion on the proposed Echo Harbor development: A campaign to convince City Council to give USP Echo Harbour what it wants has been underway. The developers have pointed at the money Richmond should rake in from new tax revenues. They’ve talked about the jobs their project will create. There’s [...]
Halloween up here is hit or miss, with some blocks getting in on the candy action and some staying dark. Does anyone else think that’d be great for the area to have something to rival Hanover Avenue? Any idea which blocks will be good for kids this year?
The will be an event on Wednesday, October 14 from 5-7PM launching The Riverfront Petition. Sponsored by Together We Stand, Partnership for Smarter Growth, Scenic Virginia, and the Alliance to Conserve Old RIchmond Neighborhoods, the petition is intended demonstrate the number of people “who support public ownership of all riverfront land along the north bank [...]
The RTD is reporting that the city is pushing to get caught up on a back-log of cleaning neglected properties across the city, and cites an example on Chimborazo Boulevard: A new, wooden fence concealed an ugly truth at 506 Chimborazo Blvd. in Richmond’s East End. Mosquito-infested brush, broken glass and construction debris were strewn [...]
Following up on an incident initially reported as a woman being run over by her boyfriend, wtvr has some details on the hit&run outside the Chimbo Mart yesterday: “We got a call that a female had been run over by a vehicle, units responded and found a woman down in a parking lot,” said Lt. [...]
Remember back in June when the idea of hanging clothes out to dry was revealed as gauche? This weekend the New York Times has taken up the discussion: Jeanne Bridgforth, a real estate agent in Richmond, Va., said that while she had no personal opinion on clotheslines, most of her clients were not thrilled with [...]
“Under The Guise”, a show of new works by Jennifer Holloway Bopst opens Friday, October 16, at the Eric Schindler Gallery.
The Armstrong Wildcats fall to 1-4 after dropping an away game 36-8 to the Lee-Davis Confederates (3-2). Next up is another away game this Friday evening at Midlothian High School.
Cyclocross at Chimborazo Park; City Council Formal Meeting; Creighton Tenant Council; Friends of Chimborazo Park Playground; Mosby Court Tenant Council; RECYCLING WEEK; Tuesday St. John’s Knitting Circle; Beginning Computer Classes for Adults; Open Mic @ Poe’s; Richmond’s Unhealed History; Beginner’s Yoga; CAPS Meeting; Jennifer McClellan meet&greet at Que Pasa; Vegetable bus; 7th District Council Candidates [...]
The 2009-2010 leaf collection schedule map (PDF) has been published. While collection begins in November in some parts of the city, the East End will not see leaf collection until the end of December. There is speculation that this will be the last year that the city collects leaves in an attempt to save money.
