Church Hill Irish Festival; Libby Hill Park Mulch Day; Shop Richmond Weekend Kick-Off; Anniversary Reenactment; City Council Formal Meeting; Open Mic @ Poe’s; Veggie Bus; Beginner’s Yoga; Fairfield Court Tenants Council; Beginning-ish Gardeners Workshop @ Chimbo Community Garden; MORE…
The agenda for Monday evening’s City Council city council meeting (PDF) includes a resolution sponsored by the 7th District’s Cynthia Newbille commending the Richmond City Promise Neighborhood Initiative (PDF) in their efforts to acquire a Promise Neighborhood grant.
Citywide kindergarten and preschool registration began today. Registration will be held at all elementary schools from 9AM-6PM, including Bellevue, Chimborazo, George Mason, Woodville, and Fairfield Court . Eligible children must be five-years-old by September 30, 2010.
The Union Hill Civic Association declined to support a proposed development at Cedar and Mosby Streets as presented at tonights meeting.
As part of the ongoing book club aimed at high school aged boys and girls in the area sponsored by DTLR, Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, author and actor from the award winning HBO hit “The Wire”, is coming to the East End Library to talk about her memoir, Grace After Midnight on March 30. Teens interested [...]
The RTD has the details of a luridly pathetic robbery in Union Hill: Richmond police say a woman gave the father of her children a ride as a means to set him up to be robbed at gunpoint. [...] Capt. David L. Martin said McLaurin offered a ride to the father of her children yesterday [...]
The March issue of Mayor Jones’ Building a Better Richmond reports that upcoming Community Forums on the City Budget will be held at the following locations/dates: March 24 – Franklin Military Academy – 6 – 8 p.m., March 25 – Westover Hills Elementary School – 6 – 8 p.m., March 29 – Richmond Public Library [...]
The folks behind the Church Hill Irish Festival have posted the schedule of events for Saturday and Sunday.
Poor Fairmount Avenue can’t catch a break: name a Richmond slumlord and dollars to donuts they own a vacant house on the once grand street. Richmond Slumlord Watch today outs Linilton Realty, owner of vacant properties on Fairmount Avenue and Whitcomb Street.
John Jones, assistant manager from The Market@Tobacco Row, has been missing since about midnight Wednesday, March 10. Age 48 Ht 5’9 Wt 150-165 lbs, last seen wearing black pants, a white dress shirt, and a tan hat. Please contact the police at (804)646-5100 if you know anything.
A wedding band was found at 29th and Broad: “This silver wedding band was found. Replier should give description of engraving. ”
The big topic at Wednesday’s Union Hill Civic Association meeting will be the developer presentation on the a proposal for the Jefferson Townhomes: The developer’s plan is to tear down the present units on the south side of Cedar Street which were built in the 1960s. [...] Very few improvements have been done to the [...]
This house ar 1500-02 North 29th Street, sold to St.John’s United Holiness Church of 1507 North 28th Street in December 2009, was demolished in recent weeks. In addition to their church building, St.John’s owns at least 14 other properties in the area — all either vacant lots or in use as surface parking.
