The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported recently that North Richmond’s 4th Precinct has a few hundred anti-theft devices that lock car steering wheels available for area residents: Vehicle thefts generally are down across the city, but a recent upswing in thefts from vehicles in some areas of Richmond has police warning residents to be more vigilant about [...]
Residents of Bellevue, Ginter Park and Washington Park — keep your eyes open for NO PARKING signs in your neighborhood indicating scheduled leaf collection between January 21 through February 1.
Northside District 3 Councilman Chris Hilbert will host his monthly District Meeting at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, January 23, at the Police Training Academy located at 1202 W. Graham Road (adjacent to Virginia Union University). This meeting will conclude the District Planning and Priority Process. All residents are invited to participate.
Due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the Friends of Bryan Park Board meeting will be held on Monday, January 28, at 7:00 pm. The meeting will be held in the Gatekeepers House at Bryan Park.
The Bellevue Civic Association General Meeting will be held this Tuesday, January 22, at Holton Elementary School. Dinner will be served at 6:30 pm and the meeting begins at 7:00 pm.
Richmond Parks and Rec will present an African-American art exhibit, showcasing the work of more than 30 artists, in the Spotlight Gallery at North Richmond’s Pine Camp Arts and Community Center from February 3 through March 28. Each piece in the exhibit, titled “Friends and Mentors,” will be accompanied by an artist’s statement describing the [...]
North Richmond’s Kitchen 64 continues to draw a variety of reviews from local news publications and weblogs, including a recent review from local weblog Messy Cuisine: Last week I finally had the opportunity to visit Kitchen 64, located off I-64 in Richmond, VA, at the Boulevard. This place has gotten a lot of press and [...]
The University of Richmond will partner with Habitat for Humanity, the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority and Boaz and Ruth to build an affordable hose in the Highland Park neighborhood of North Richmond. “This collaboration is an important part of Build It, the University’s largest sustained community-engagement initiative coordinated by the Bonner Center for Civic [...]
The Church Hill People’s News has details on the city’s open enrollment schools — which include Ginter Park elementary: Applications to attend one of Richmond City’s open enrollment schools for the 2008-2009 school year are due Feb. 8. Open enrollment elementary schools are divided into three zones. The Zone III elementary schools are Bellevue, Ginter [...]
Earlier this month, we posted about a group of VCU urban design students and their analysis of the Lakeside corridor that extends from Bryan Park in Richmond to Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens in Henrico. Richmond.com has run an extensive article on the student’s proposal for the mile-long stretch of Lakeside Avenue: Students noted that clustering [...]
