The Church Hill Dog Park will be guest-hosting the Richmond Pug Meetup Saturday at 10AM: The Richmond Pug Meetup is a group of Pug owners who meet the first Saturday of each month at Barker Field Dog Park to spend the morning watching Richmond’s finest pugs snort, sniff and play with old and new friends!
A feud between developer Justin French and his partner the Markel Corporation over funds needed to finish a set of larger projects is leading to French purposefully letting the bank foreclose on all of the projects in which he and are Markel partnered. The long list of impacted properties include residential work at 614-620 North [...]
The July 2010 Church Hill Newsletter is available (PDF) and includes: a profile of Mary Ann and Bob Buffington, the folks behind Captain Buzzy’s; membership survey results; meeting minutes; energy efficiency info; Chimborazo and Bellevue liaison and volunteering program info; and gardening tips. The next CHA General Membership meeting will be held at St. John’s [...]
Rachel at The Green Truth will be selling produce at 22nd and Carrington from 10AM-noon every Saturday and noon-2PM every Sunday: I’m selling tomato plants to start with, and have many varieties which are suitable for yards and/or containers. Determinate tomato plants reach a fixed height and produce fruit all at once, which makes them [...]
Are there any spots in the area where one might be able to see either the Dogwood Dell or Diamond fireworks displays on Sunday?
The Historic Richmond Foundation is reporting that action is being taken to get some movement on 401 North 27th Street: City inspectors gave the owner [listed as Lessie Hembrick] an ultimatum today under the approval of the Chief Building Commissioner to begin substantial work immediately or Code Enforcement would be approved to initiate legal proceedings [...]
No one was killed in Richmond in June 2010. Going back to at least 1980, Richmond has only had three months without any homicides. Each of these quiet months has come in the last 8 months, and 2 of them have come in 2010.
