The Richmond City Council is seeking individuals to serve on boards, commissions, committees and task forces. Richmond City Council appoints members to 55 local/regional government bodies, 1 federal body and 5 non-governmental organizations, and have 28 vacancies for 37 individuals to fill. All citizens interested in being appointed to serve are invited to review the [...]
Come on out this Friday, April 9 from 5-7PM for a block party and community evening at the Robinson Theater Community Arts Center. This will be a great opportunity to mix and mingle with neighbors, community leaders, civic associations and others, and to show the positive vibe and welcoming environment of our neighborhood.
A nice companion piece to this photo, the Housing + Transportation Affordabilty Index delineates areas where residents spend a high proportion of their income on housing or housing&transportation.
A Jane’s Walk has been scheduled for the St.John’s area on Sunday, May 2. Jane’s Walks are “a series of free neighborhood walking tours that helps put people in touch with their environment and with each other, by bridging social and geographic gaps and creating a space for cities to discover themselves” that began in [...]
The Robinson Theater’s schedule of spring classes kick off this week with opportunities for Adult Swing Dancing and Tae Kwon Do for Beginners ages 5&up. Contact Betsy at (804)562-9133 to register or for more info.
If you’re seeing this, you are viewing CHPN on the new host. Let’s all hope this is the end of those d&*$@ database error messages…
Clarence Kenney is looking for volunteers to help launch a new neighborhood-based baseball program. If you’re interested in helping out, contact Clarence at Sports_Noah@yahoo.com.
A man was shot in his left arm during a robbery just after 8PM in the 2000 block of North 29th Street. According to the RTD: When the victim gave the robber $50, the robber ordered him to the ground and fired a single shot before fleeing [...]. The suspect was described as a black [...]
The Model Cities Program, an element of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and War on Poverty, was a federal urban aid program in the late 1960s and early 1970s intended “to make a blighted section [...] a pleasant place to live”. In Richmond, this manifested as the Church Hill Model Neighborhood Program, whose most lasting contribution [...]
Fairfield Easter Egg Hunt; New Vision Civic League; RPS School Board; Friends of Libby Hill Park; Open Mic @ Poe’s; Veggie Bus; Beginner’s Yoga; Veggie Bus; Unity Civic League; An Afternoon with Eliza Poe; MORE…
Looks like two more dead in a shooting at S and 29th Streets. Initial reports are that a man shot another man and then himself, and that the shooter was a suspect in this morning’s shooting in Randolph.
