In many ways you can’t get much greener than the grounds of the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, but the Northside landmark is adopting several environmentally friendly approaches and creating opportunities for its members to learn more about going green. A few changes in the way the Garden handles its own operations include: A water management [...]
Join Books on Wheels at the Headstart Health Fair from 10:00am until 3:00pm on Tuesday, July 29, at 2924 Brook Road: Books on Wheels provides free books and bicycle repair to Richmond, VA and beyond. Through a bus, The “MobookMobikeMobile”, which is packed with books, bicycle parts, and tools, Books on Wheels is able to [...]
Northside artists Jennifer Young has another Bellevue yardscape posted on her website: This scene is one I’ve been “stalking” for a few days in the Bellevue neighborhood where I live. I’ve written before about my North Richmond ‘hood, and how many avid gardners live around here. On another one of our evening walks, we passed [...]
Northside Grille’s Shanan Chambers has a new venture in the works, according to North of the James magazine, and it’s coming to MacArthur Avenue: Shanan is now planning to open another eatery on nearby MacArthur Avenue in the heart of Bellevue. To be called We All Scream, this deli will serve up boxed lunches and [...]
From our friends at the Carver & Jackson Ward News: The City of Richmond Planning Commission will discuss further revisions to and consider adoption of the June 2008 Draft Downtown Master Plan on Monday, July 21. The meeting is open to the public, but there will not be a public hearing. The discussion on the [...]
Current School Board Representative Carol A.O. Wolf had an op-ed in Sunday’s Times-Dispatch about the impact on Richmond’s schools by the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision; the Fan District Hub has published a longer version of Wolf’s piece online. It reads, in part: The late and great Oliver W. Hill, Esq. was my [...]
The Times-Dispatch reports that GRTC may be looking at eliminating its Route 20 bus, which travels along Brookland Park Boulevard near 4th Avenue to Brook and Hermitage roads to Willow Lawn. It would be part of a streamlining of the bus system’s routes. A hearing will be held on Tuesday at City Hall on the [...]
In an article on low-cost designs and the rise in thrift store shopping during tight economic times, the Richmond Times-Dispatch takes a look at the Lakeside corridor and at North Richmond’s Diversity Thrift and Salvation Army’s Goodwill store: The Lakeside area of Henrico County in recent years has become home to a cluster of resale [...]
Robin Farmer, writing for Media General News Service, has some more details on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation library grants available to the Ginter Park and North Avenue libraries: Twice a week, David Lynch of Richmond uses the Ginter Park Library’s wireless Internet access to work on his laptop. Learning Tuesday that the branch [...]
Hats off to Richmond.com for its comprehensive overview of Richmond’s 3rd District — looking at both the boundaries and key landmarks of the Northside district, as well as a solid snapshot of the candidates and issues behind the upcoming School Board and City Council elections. What makes up Northside’s 3rd District? District 3/Northside encompasses the [...]
