The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the AAA affiliate of the Atlanta Braves could migrate south — from Richmond to Gwinnett — in time for the 2009 season, leaving Richmond without a minor league baseball team. The Braves will move their Class AAA minor-league team to Gwinnett County, according to two people familiar with the situation. [...]
The local weblog Buttermilk & Molasses (run by one of the editors of North Richmond News) has posted new details on the city’s plans for the large (60+ acres) tract of land surrounding the Diamond. For details, go to Buttermilk & Molasses.
Inquiring minds want to know what’s the deal with the “Retail Space for Lease” sign in the window of Sammy’s Bakery on MacArthur Avenue? Is our favorite local bakery going out-of-business or relocating? Sammy and Titus have a sign up saying they are on vacation until January 14, but who wants to wait that long [...]
The drought is over and our regional cup runeth over. For now. The Richmond area lifted mandatory water restrictions today, three months after a drought prompted emergency conservation measures around the region. The restrictions end immediately in Richmond and the counties of Henrico, Chesterfield, Hanover and Goochland. The restrictions had limited when people could water [...]
Style Weekly provides the nuts ‘n’ blots on Lakeside’s newest restaurant: North Siders were a bit surprised when the casual, seafood-centric LA Grill closed suddenly last year, then became a short-lived Italian joint, Mento’s, for only a few weeks before going dark. Now the place, at 5516 Lakeside Ave., has another identity, New India, and [...]
VCU urban planning students took a hard look at Henrico County’s Lakeside corridor stretching from Bryan Park to Lewis Ginter and saw green. The Times-Dispatch reports that the students have proposed Lakeside Avenue Revitalization Plan with dozens of environmentally friendly development recommendations: The plan recommends improving pedestrian access and promoting the district’s small, independent retailers [...]
Holiday donations intended for North Richmond’s Scottish Rite Childhood Learning Center may have been lost in the mail, the Times-Dispatch reports. Mail that was put on hold for a week and apparently stacked up at a North Richmond post office seems to have disappeared. U.S. Postal Service officials said yesterday that the matter is under [...]
The Times-Dispatch’s Michael Paul Williams recently wrote about a residential development planned at the former St. Elizabeth’s School in North Richmond’s Highland Park community. Apparently, neighbors are concerned about the scope of the 68 apartment project: Jeanne Boisineau and her husband were dazzled by the craftsmanship of the two-story brick colonial in Highland Park. But [...]
The website of Richmond-area artist Duane Keiser has gained some measure of fame for its daily posting of still-life and other paintings; A Painting A Day recently featured another of Keiser’s artistic homages to North Richmond.
While the region’s homicide rate dropped dramatically in 2007 — lead by a decline in slayings in the City of Richmond — a large clusters of the city’s homicides were clustered in North Richmond communities just east of Chamberlayne Avenue. The Times-Dispatch’s recent report on the homicide death toll in 21 of Central Virginia’s localities [...]
