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Archive for March 2010

This week’s calendar

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…

Newbille seeks to recognize Richmond City Promise Neighborhood Initiative

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 for 2010

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.

Cedar Street proposal underwhelming at UHCA

The Union Hill Civic Association declined to support a proposed development at Cedar and Mosby Streets as presented at tonights meeting.

Snoop coming to East End Library

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 [...]

Set up on M Street

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 [...]

Budget forum set for 3/24 at Franklin Military

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 [...]

Church Hill Irish Festival Schedule for Saturday and Sunday

The folks behind the Church Hill Irish Festival have posted the schedule of events for Saturday and Sunday.

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Another slumlord on Fairmount Avenue

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.

Little Lady Liberty

John Jones is missing

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.

Wedding band found on 29th Street

A wedding band was found at 29th and Broad: “This silver wedding band was found. Replier should give description of engraving. ”

More on the Cedar Street project

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 [...]

St.John’s acquires another vacant lot

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.

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