For 20 years, the R.E.B. Awards for Teaching Excellence program has recognized Richmond-area educators for excellence in the classroom. This year, two teachers at North Richmond’s Linwood Holton Elementary School were among the 15 winners of cash grants: Leslie Harrison Brockman was awarded $11,300 to visit the Pueblo, Sioux and Eastern Woodland Native American tribal [...]
On Saturday, January 5, residents of the City of Richmond are encouraged to participate in “Survivor Day,” a training program covering basic skills useful during emergencies. The four-hour training session, offered as part of winter preparedness by the City’s Office of Emergency Management, will cover fire safety, first-aid, anti-terrorism and weather response measures. A free [...]
City Councilman Chris Hilbert will resume his monthly district meetings in January. The meeting will be held at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, January 23, at the Police Training Academy on West Graham Road (off of Brook Road behind Virginia Union University). The January meeting will complete the final phase of district mission and vision planning; [...]
From the Times-Dispatch: An outdoor farmers market is expected to open in Lakeside in May. The Henrico County Board of Supervisors voted this week to approve Peter Francisco’s plan to operate the market from the parking lot of the Lakeside Towne Center, on Lakeside Avenue near Hilliard Road. Francisco, who owns the shopping center with [...]
NBC12 News reports that a fire this past weekend at an apartment complex on Westminster Avenue has displaced 10 people, several with special needs. Flames broke out around 8 a.m. yesterday on Westminster Avenue and though the residents made it out safely, they say the blaze comes as a hard blow at Christmas. “I woke [...]
On Thursday, December 20, a 60-year-old homeless man was found dead in a wooded area near the intersection of Chamberlayne and Laburnum avenues. The Times-Dispatch reports that: The body of Jimmie Allen Arthur, 60, was found by a friend, Richmond police Lt. Sybil El-Amin said. The cause of Arthur’s death will be determined by the [...]
It’s been a few weeks since the camera crew from the Food Network swung through town to film a spot on North Richmond’s favorite institution for its “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” program. Style Weekly has a few details: Jimmy Tsamouras, who bought the North Side hangout Dot’s Back Inn not quite a year ago, got [...]
The City of Richmond’s hazardous materials collection at the Diamond earlier this year was such a success that plans are in the works to create a permanent site for city residents to dispose of hazardous waste, according to the Times-Dispatch: Richmond is preparing to launch year-round disposal of hazardous wastes instead of making city residents [...]
More than a year after the collapse of a major sewer line running near North Richmond’s Battery Park community, a new line has been constructed. The Times-Dispatch has more: Mayor L. Douglas Wilder announced the sewer’s completion at a ceremony yesterday in Battery Park, which he said would be protected from renewed flooding by sewage [...]
The Richmond School Board advanced a plan late last week that would close or renovate eight schools in the city. The plans also call for a new elementary school in North Richmond. The plan was passed after much debate, and advances to City Council for approval. The Times-Dispatch has more on the plan and the [...]
