Mayor Doug Wilder recently announced that about $113 million is in the pipeline to address community improvements across the city — including neighborhoods, parks, libraries, streets and sidewalks. In North Richmond, those projects include: Restoration of Young’s Pond at Bryan Park Azalea Garden Pond Restoration at Bryan Park Azalea Garden Gazebo at Bryan Park Improvements [...]
North Richmond’s Faison School and Autism Center of Virginia will host an “Art for Autism Gala” on April 18 to raise funds for the school’s mission of service, training and research. Featured artists include Wolf Kahn and Sally Mann. The event will be held at the Charles Luck Stone Center at 343 River Road West [...]
Parents, teachers and school administrators might be interested in a series of one to four day seminars providing insights, tools and strategies to help students succeed both in the classroom and beyond.The Professional Institute courses will be held between June 17 and August 14. Several scholarships are available to parents and teachers as a result [...]
Due to popular demand, the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens are now open on Thursday evenings in April, May and June — during the peak weeks of the garden’s Million Blooms event: You’ve asked for evening hours and we’ve listened! On Thursdays, the Garden is open til 9 p.m.; the Garden Cafe and Garden Shop are [...]
The next Bellevue Plant Swap will take place on May 3 in the Once Upon A Vine parking lot on MacArthur Avenue. There’s plenty of information — including rules for the event — at the Bellevue website. HOW DOES IT WORK? Bring your labeled yard plants in disposable containers to the swap by 11:30. You [...]
From this week’s Style Weekly: Dot’s Back Inn: North Side landmark diner gets exposed April 14 at 10 p.m. on the Food Network. Owner Jimmy Tsamouras cooks, regulars shoot the breeze, and that blond guy eats it all up on “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.” 4030 MacArthur Ave. 266-3167.
As the retail boom along Bellevue’s MacArthur Avenue continues, the neighborhood can now celebrate a bit of a residential boom as one of three apartment buildings on the burgeoning commercial street has been transformed into six condominiums. North of the James magazine’s April issue has a lengthy feature on owner Jerry Robinson’s rehabilitation project; the [...]
In March, WTVR Channel 6 reported on North Richmond residents’ concerns about truck traffic on Overbrook Road between Hermitage Avenue and Brook Road: Some North Richmond neighbors say they’re tired of hearing big rigs drive down Overbrook Road. They say it’s more than a nuisance, its dangerous. “This is a small resident zone and someone [...]
The Union Theological Seminary on Brook Road has announced that construction of a new education and worship center at the corner of Brook Road and Westwood Avenue is coming to a close: Construction of the Allen and Jeannette Early Center for Christian Education and Worship has moved into its closing weeks. As a visible sign [...]
Discover Lakeside announced plans for a Memorial Day parade on Lakeside Avenue: A Memorial Day Parade is scheduled for Monday, May 26. The event will kick off at the Hatcher Memorial Church at 2 pm, turn left on Dumbarton, and proceed the wrong way on the southbound lane of Lakeside Avenue. The parade will continue [...]
