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 locations. This month’s additional meeting will be the “North [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
