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Archive for June 2009

Democratic Primaries today!

Democratic primaries are today! Don’t forget to vote. Need a refresher before heading into the polling booth? Worry not, RVANews has a great refresher on the candidates. Northside residents will be voting for Governor, Lt. Governor, and Sheriff. For those of you twitter savvy check use the following tags and follow the conversatation over at [...]

Men of Barton Heights?

Anyone else seen these slightly bizarre flyers up around Barton Heights / Battery Park? What’s the deal? One more below the fold.

Oh hey guys, we have a twitter

I’ve been meaning to set this up for a while but we now have this: @northrichmond We may do something innovative with it in the future, but for now it’ll be a conventional twitter. Still pretty cool though. Also, don’t for get about the Northside flickr pool. If you get any sweet pics of the [...]

Battery Park history drive

Meet at the Battery Park House (Stone House) today from 4pm – 6pm to chat about the area’s history. Bring your photos! Some more info: As most of you know, I have been trying to pull together a project based on the history of Battery Park and the surrounding neighborhood. While I have had some [...]

Northside business featured on Richmond BizSense

Lindy Fralin’s Pickup Shop (located on Laburnum Avenue) was profiled on local business news blog, Richmond BizSense. Rumored to be used by Brad Paisley, Neil Young, and Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, Fralin’s pickups bring in almost $1 million in sales, anually. Go here to read the full article.

Suspect in 2007 murder arrested on Old Brook Road

From the Richmond Police Department: As a result of a domestic situation last night, Richmond Police officers responded to the 4200 block of Old Brook Road in an attempt to locate Derrell R. Brown, 23 who was believed to be armed. Police arrived on scene with felony warrants for larceny, brandishing a firearm and property [...]

Weekly crits at Bryan Park

Fire in Highland Park

A bad day for house fires across the city. This from the RTD: A house under renovation in Richmond’s Highland Park neighborhood had nearly $200,000 in damages from a fire that authorities said was caused by work crews. The house that caught fire shortly after 1 p.m. in the 100 block of East Ladies Mile [...]

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