Share your snow photos!
Upload your photos to Flickr, add’em to the Church Hill Flickr group, and tag ‘em with “RVAsnow”. We did something similar on election day in 2008 and it was kind of cool, lets see if we can have some fun with this weather…
Archive for “RVANews-news”
Robbery on 32nd Street?
Anybody got anything on this? do you have any news on a supposed armed robber outside the Blue Wheeler last night, i think between 9-10pm?
Que Pasa cuts back to 3 days
Que Pasa will be closed every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday until further notice. The restaurant will be open every Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Have you seen Pony?
A pomerainian was lost on the corner of M & 22nd Streets today. She is black with a white muzzle and feet. No collar. Her name is Pony, 14-years-old, approximately 7 pounds. If found or sighted call (804)627-3942.
It’s dark!
We’ve got reports of power outages on Grace Street and along Broad at 18th Street. All of streetlights are out south of Fairmount and it is *dark*.
MLK Middle School in, George Mason out of Phase 1
The School Board voted 6-1 tonight to proceed with a school development plan that prioritizes the schools for new development as: a new Huguenot HS, Broad Rock ES, Oak Grove ES, Martin Luther King MS, and then George Mason ES, Green ES, & Elkhart MS. Previously slots for 4 schools had been identified; this keeps [...]
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A list of local organizations on Facebook &/or Twitter.
Council campaign finance report updated today
The Virginia Public Access Project has again updated the numbers on the City Council 7th District campaign (previously).
What is the plan for rebuilding schools?
The on&off plan to build/rebuild city schools has gone through a number of permutations over the past 5 years. George Mason Elementary and Martin Luther King Middle School were usually mentioned as being near the top of any list, but perhaps not any longer. Mayor Jones presented a plan at last night’s school board meeting [...]
Style recognizes a few of our own
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?
Henley Street Theatre at Eric Schindler today
Henley Street Theatre Company will be hosting a fundraiser at the Eric Schindler Gallery this evening at 6PM. There will be live music, heavy hors d’oeuvres, wine and beer.
Church Hill North residents meet to organize, hear from candidates
A group of about 30 neighbors met this evening at the EDI with the intent of putting together a new civic organization for some portion of the area north of Broad Street. The first half of the meeting included small group discussions on concerns and desires, while the 2nd half was given over to a [...]
ACORN is no longer ACORN
In an email today, the Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods announced that they will no longer use the ACORN acronym: As the recent, unpleasant news about the national ACORN organization has been on and in the news, we have received phone calls and e-mail messages asking if we are part of– or affiliated with– [...]
A word of caution to VCU students
It is not in your best interest to catch the campus connector from the Monroe Campus to the MCV Campus and then walk across the MLK Bridge and up Venable Street to the ABC store at 8:30PM. If I see you again, next time I’ll rob your dumbass myself.
