With a goal of $225,000 the Richmond Walk to Defeat ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) is looking for a few good walkers to join them at Bryan Park on October 25. The walk is scheduled for 11:00am (registration starts at 9:30am) and ALS has set up some pretty comprehensive web tools to help individuals and teams [...]
North Richmond artist Jennifer Young has posted another bright plein air look at a Northside flowerscape: Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens has a wonderful feature called the children’s garden. Lots of fun activities for the little tykes, and beautiful summer color for the rest of us. The sunflowers are fading but they were still holding on [...]
An innocuous comment by sitting School Board representative Carole A.O. Wolf in a discussion at North Richmond News triggered stories in Style Weekly and the Times-Dispatch this week. Here’s Style’s take on the comment: [Wolf] all but accuses fellow board members Lisa Dawson and Chandra Smith of stealing the election petition sheets that might have [...]
The Bellevue Civic Association website has provided a detailed series of questions and answers related to the proposed roundabout at the intersection of Hermitage Road and Laburnum Avenue. Further up the same page, the site contains preliminary designs of the proposed roundabout.
Henrico doesn’t hold many events at the quiet Spring Park Historic Site in Lakeside, but on Friday, August 15, the Bobcats will cover 1960s hits in the park (tucked just behind the Bank of America on Lakeside Avenue near Bryan Park) from 6:00 until 8:00pm. “Rock the Block” is a free event for all ages. [...]
The Holton Elementary website reveals that Northside broke all records for reading this summer. Ginter Park Library and all of our patrons helped make this year’s Summer Reading Program a phenomenal success! We had 357 people sign-up this summer at Ginter Park Library! Now for the exciting announcements… Ginter Park Library read more books than [...]
Tucked away on the west end of the shops along Bellevue Avenue, the Mercury String Shop is all but invisible to anyone but the pedestrians who occasionally pause to look into the window of the stringed instrument shop. (The Times-Dispatch featured the Mercury String Shop in an article in 2007.) The quiet shop has attracted [...]
The Faison School for Autism has relocated from its North Richmond home to a new building near Willow Lawn last week, according to the Times-Dispatch: …before the Faison School for Autism opened its new facility in April, staff made sure students were prepared. “The school sent home a picture book,” said Desi Wyatt, father of [...]
The Times-Dispatch reports that a recent sting operation netted six women charged with prostitution on Chamberlayne Avenue: Richmond police have charged six women with prostitution during a two-week investigation in North Side. Complaints by residents living along the Chamberlayne Avenue corridor initiated the investigation, police said. “Citizens have played an important part of our enforcement [...]
WTVR TV6 reports that the citywide murder rate is way down, and cites Highland Park as an example of the dramatic downward trend: We broke down Richmond’s murder rate for the past 3 years: From May to mid-August the murders reached 24 in 2006. In 2007, it dropped to 20 during the same time. Compared [...]
