The Richmond Police Department reports that Javon Antonio Poag was arrested on October 23 for Tuesday’s shooting of a 16-year-old on West Lancaster Road in the City’s Northside. Poag, 21, of Petersburg has been charged with malicious wounding, possession of a firearm while a convicted felon, three counts of use of a firearm in the [...]
The Times-Dispatch’s Will Jones has an update on the 3rd District campaign issue involving the use of incarcerated youth in a state job-training program to produce cards and signs for candidate Jonathan Davis: Those concerns, stemming in part from Davis’ role as an instructor, are prompting state officials to look at restricting Youth Industries from [...]
Thursday night, the Richmond City Democratic Committee endorsed candidates for Mayor, City Council and School Board. The committee endorsed Dwight Jones for mayor. The committee endorsed Chris Hilbert for City Council in the 3rd District, but did not endorse a candidate in the 2nd District. The committee endorsed Kimberly Gray for School Board in the [...]
North Richmond News is working with the Richmond Police Department to keep the community informed of crimes in our area; there have been several crimes reported in Northside in recent days. We will report crimes by block numbers, not specific addresses: A juvenile male reported he was shot by a known male who tried to [...]
From local weblog Buttermilk & Molasses: On November 18, the Richmond Regional Planning District Commission will be hosting [Charleston Mayor Joe] Riley for an afternoon. It’s titled “Building A Better Richmond, Part I,” which implies that there will be a Part II and maybe a trilogy; Riley will demonstrate his prowess with the Force from [...]
WRIR Independent Radio (”Radio for the rest of us”) at 97.3fm has started its fall pledge drive, and has offered to contribute toward Battery Park for pledges and donations to the station of $200 and up. Last spring, the pledge drive benefited Friends of Forest Hill Park. From a comment posted at North Richmond News [...]
From the City of Richmond Department of Public Utilities: [The] Department of Public Utilities will be at Pleasants Hardware. 2024 W. Broad Street, Friday, Oct. 24, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., distributing weatherization kits for free to senior citizens. Each kit contains window insulation materials, weather sealers, outlet and switch covers, toilet tank water conservation [...]
Style Weekly’s Brandon Fox, a Northside resident herself, had plenty of praise for the newly expanded Tastebuds American Bistro on MacArthur Avenue: Tastebuds’ golden beet salad isn’t particularly original but is full of apples and tangy blue cheese, although not nearly enough greens. The fried oysters crunch delicately but the black-eyed peas beneath them need [...]
Style Weekly has a few new details on the wholesale staffing changes that happened earlier this month at Lakeside’s Zed Cafe: It’s never pretty when a staff, including a high-profile chef, walks out of a restaurant all at once, but internal politics pushed Bill Foster and others over the edge this month and a little [...]
The city’s 29th homicide of the year was reported early Wednesday morning, when a body was discovered in an alley on Harold Avenue near Overby-Sheppard Elementary School near Highland Park. The Times-Dispatch has more: Freddie J. Sparrow, described as a doting father who had a way of making people laugh but also struggled with heroin [...]
