From Style: Federal auditors are scrutinizing more than $38.4 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds that the city applied for and received to help repair damage in the hard-hit Battery Park neighborhood, according to state and city officials.
She’s a cute one! From the person who found her: I found her last night near the intersection of Overbrook and Chamberlayne. She appears to be less than 2 years old and very friendly/people oriented. Very well fed, ears/nails/teeth look good. No collar :-( If you belong to this dog shoot us an email and [...]
The Richmond Police Department is investigating the death of a 13-month-old child who was left unattended in a van today for several hours. Police began this death investigation after receiving a medical emergency call in the 2700 block of Garland Avenue at approximately 4:30 p.m. Keishawn L. Whitfield, 23 an employee of the Yellow Brick [...]
If you see trees around the neighborhood with orange spray-paint X’s on them they are marked for removal. Eventually they’ll get these signs on them with the cause for removal. This one’s cause: it is 50% dead.
This morning I’ve switched North Richmond News’s calendar over from custom software to Yahoo’s Upcoming. The hope is to integrate more with RVANews’s event calendar. Here are some things you need to know: You’ll need a Yahoo account to add events to the calendar. It’s the same as your Flickr account if you’ve got one. [...]
Plan accordingly.
The library of congress has this fantastic resource of searchable newspapers published between 1880 – 1920. There are kinds of awesome things (lots in Ginter Park available for $1,000) waiting to be discovered. The Library of Congress: Chronicling America
From NBC12 via CHPN (which I will lazily quote): City Council is considering offering a hefty tax break on the real estate taxes for new constructing in certain areas with a high number of empty lots, “including North Church Hill, Carver, and Highland Park”. With around 1500 vacant lots in the city, the possible 100% [...]
Here is an interesting letter (PDF) from State Highway Safety Engineer Michael B. Sawyer to the Director of Public Works, Dexter White. The letter — dated June 18, 2009 — addresses some of the concerns the neighborhood and Councilman Hilbert have raised. Here are some juicy quotes: Over the past 15 years, we [VDOT & [...]
