The North Richmond YMCA Community Center will be one of several area YMCA’s to benefit from $100,000 in grants that will allow more children and teens in low-income communities to participate in YMCA programs. Altria Group Inc. and Capital One Financial Corp. each awarded $50,000 grants to provide assistance for memberships, day camp, child care and ...
Movieland, the new Bow Tie Cinemas venue on North Boulevard, opens tomorrow. You can go online to see what’s playing, or to find out details on pricing or Bow Tie specials like Movies & Mimosa or Insomnia Theater. ...
The Market Umbrella, a for-profit organizer of local farmers’ markets responsible for the highly successful South of the James Market in Forest Hill Park, will be setting up shop in Bryan Park this spring. The Market Emporium at Bryan Park will run every Tuesday from 3:00 until 7:00 p.m. from May until November. For more information, ...
Just weeks after announcing that Chandler Middle School on Brookland Park Boulevard will close, Richmond Public School officials say plans are in the works to move Community High School to the North Richmond school building. From the Richmond Times-Dispatch: Richmond school officials say today they’ll recommend moving Community High School from its West End campus to ...
On Thursday, Movieland and VCU Children’s Medical Center come together for a special premiere viewing of “Sunshine Cleaning,” written by Richmonder Megan Holley and starring Amy Adams, Emily Blunt & Alan Arkin. The event begins at 7:00 p.m. with a reception of light hors d’oeuvres and beverages, and an opportunity to meet screenwriter Megan Holley. ...
Northside Mardi Gras Parade; The Good Humor Band at Shenanigans; Tori Time at the Ginter Park Library; The Ray Pittman Project at Shenanigans; 3rd District Meeting with Hilbert and Mayor Jones; Amy Henderson at Shenanigans; Preschool Story Time at Ginter Park Library; Brad Spivey & the Honky Tonk Experience at Shenanigans; Brad Spivey & the ...
Richmond City Council 3rd District Representative Hilbert will host his monthly meeting in the Northside 3rd District of Richmond to share his goals and accomplishments on behalf of the district. All Northside 3rd District Constituents are invited and encouraged to attend. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, February 25, from 6-8PM, at Richmond ...
The Richmond School Board has voted to close Chandler MS at the end of the school year: Chandler Middle School will close at the end of the year, as the result of the Richmond School Board’s unanimous vote tonight. For the past seven years, Chandler, a 300-student school on East Brookland Park Boulevard in North Richmond, ...
Over the past month, community activists claiming rights as homesteaders have been fixing up 2913 Montrose Avenue, a property that they describe as having been vacant for 3 years. Given 24 hours on Monday to stop work and leave by the property owner, the notorious Oliver Lawrence, the protest/confrontation should play out during the ...
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The Richmond School Board Public Hearing Agenda for tomorrow (2/17) (PDF) has one item: “Receive public comment regarding recommendation to close Chandler Middle School.” The meeting begins at 4:30PM and will be in the School Board Room, 17th floor City Hall. The regular meeting begins at 6PM, and the agenda for that meeting includes “Consider ...
The Richmond Smiles Dental Program, in partnership with the City Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities, is celebrating National Children’s Dental Health Month (February) by sponsoring a Dental Health Fair at Hotchkiss Community Center, 701 E. Brookland Park Blvd. on Tuesday, February 17, from 11AM. to 1PM. ...
Councilwoman Robertson’s Gateway 6th District North of the James Community Meeting; Public forum on the future of Chandler Middle School; The English Channel at Shenanigans; Valentine’s Day Brunch at Lewis Ginter; Valentine’s Day Dinner at Lewis Ginter; Bellevue Civic Association General Meeting; Southern Barton Heights Community Association; Amy Henderson at Shenanigans; CAPS Neighborhood Meeting; Community ...
The RTD has the word about a public forum to discuss the proposal to close Chandler Middle School today at 10AM at the school and a look at the the school’s woes: With continued academic woes and pressing budget concerns in mind, Richmond school administrators are asking the School Board to close Chandler Middle School. [...] ...
In addition to her regularly scheduled individual district-wide monthly meetings, Councilwoman Ellen F. Robertson, Gateway 6th District, will begin holding two additional meetings, one each in the northern and southern parts of the Gateway 6th District. The meeting will rotate monthly and be held at alternate ...
We’ll be back in full force the week of February 23! Happy mid-winter! ...
I joined Richmond’s press today for a tour of Movieland, which looks like it is going to be an amazing addition to the Boulevard corridor. Valerie Catrow at RVANews did an excellent job of describing the tour, and Movieland’s features, so I put together a slideshow: ...
You can find a reasonably good summary of the presentation made by the developers of the proposed Shockoe Bottom and Boulevard projects at Buttermilk & Molasses. There is also a post capturing about 50% of the comments, questions and answers. The meeting was held earlier this evening at Holton Elementary School in North Richmond. ...
Carol A.O. Wolf, a frequent commenter on North Richmond News and the 3rd District’s former School Board representative, offers some thoughts about how new school Superintendent Yvonne Brandon could deliver in her role in a Back Page editorial in the latest issue of Style Weekly: The proposed closing of Chandler Middle School for failure to become ...
A recent classified posting for a Trustee’s Sale of 1300 Westwood Avenue, 1311 Palmyra Avenue and 1325 Palmyra Avenue notes that the properties will be offered for sale at a public auction “at the Clay Street entrance of the Richmond Circuit Court Building 400 North 9th Street Richmond VA at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, February ...