From the events calendar: A holiday tradition! The show features more than a half million lights arranged in botanical themes throughout the Garden. Visitors can also marvel at displays in the Garden’s Conservatory and decorations in the Visitors Center and the Education and Library Complex. Merry Mondays on Monday evenings include storytelling for kids. New! [...]
From the events calendar: Please join the Ginter Park Library Advisory Board for our 2nd annual Holiday Fete. Great local food & music, fantastic door prizes. See old friends & meet new neighbors. Community support last year was wonderful; let’s make it a tradition! Your donations help provide youth & adult programs throughout the year. [...]
RTD has a neat article on Raymond Neblett, a former VUU basketball player who spent 14 years in jail for armed robbery. After leaving jail, Neblett began working for Y-CAPP (Youth Challenged Advised And Positively Promoted) helping run a youth basketball program. Neblett has been an in-house counselor in a group home, facilitated therapy groups [...]
From the events calendar: Wednesday is the final official market of the 2009 season. Plenty of produce and baked goods to compliment the Thanksgiving feast. Lakeside Farmers’ Market, located at 6110 Lakeside Ave., in the parking lot at Lakeside Towne Center beside CVS (one block south of Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden). Seasonal Farmers’ Market offering [...]
Remember this? A homeowner wakes up and finds a man attempting to break into his garage and confronts/shoots him with a shotgun? Originally charged with unlawful wounding, which is a felony, the homeowner put in a plea of “recklessly handling a firearm.” His judge, however, was partially sympathetic saying, “If I saw this in my [...]
From the RPD: On Saturday, approximately 1,000 pounds of aluminum was stolen from a local glass company. Within hours, three men were identified, located and charged with the half-ton theft. The arrests are a direct result of the partnerships and good relationships Richmond Police have created between recyclers and neighboring investigators. “These recycling companies and [...]
This has been all over the news, but here it is from nbc12: A Richmond man is behind bars, accused of going to Massachusetts to abduct a 12-year-old girl. … Police say he was not only planning to help the 12 year old run-away, they say he was going to bring her back to Virginia [...]
RVANews has some great pictures of St. Joseph’s during their 175th year anniversary. Go check them out!
VUU defeated Barton College, 2007 Div II National Champions, 100-91 on the first day of the Pickle Classic. Friday’s contest marked the first-ever match-up of former national champions in the history of the Pickle Classic. Barton won the 2007 NCAA Division II National Championship, while Virginia Union won its most recent national championship in 2005, [...]
From NBC12: The fire started around 1:30 a.m. at a home in the 2600 block of Fernhill Avenue. One man was sent to the hospital for minor burns and smoke inhalation. He was smoking in bed which caused the fire.
