This is the first in what I hope to be a continuing series on events and news that happened 100 years ago in our area. All the newspaper clippings are pulled from the excellent Library of Congress’s Chronicling America website. This story comes from the Wednesday December 8, 1909 issue of the Richmond Times Dispatch, [...]
In the city of Richmond it is four.
From the RTD: A 26-year-old man was wounded in a shooting tonight near Essex Village apartments in Henrico County, police said. The man was shot once at East Laburnum Avenue and Delmont Street and ran to a Racetrack convenience store nearby, where a clerk called 911 about 8:40 p.m., said Henrico police Lt. J.C. Holmes. [...]
From the RTD: The call originally came in to police at 11:12 a.m. as a “riot” in the cafeteria, but one of the first officers on scene said 50-60 students in the cafeteria were not fighting but instead were “getting riled up.” Within 10 minutes of the call, officers said they had emptied the cafeteria, [...]
From the RTD: A man was left with a broken arm and other injuries after being attacked by a would-be robber wielding what police described as a large stick near Richmond’s Shockoe Hill Cemetery. … “Give it up or I’m going to kill you,” the attacker told him before beating him repeatedly with the stick, [...]
From the Richmond Fire Marshal: fires. Each Richmond Fire Station has a wreath placed on the front of the fire station. The wreath is illuminated with green light bulbs. If there are NO significant structure fires during the holiday season, the wreath will remain lit with only green bulbs. If a significant structure fire occurs [...]
From Craigslist: About 4:30 this afternoon (Friday, Dec. 11), in the parking lot of the CVS on Bellevue Avenue, a charcoal black, poodle-terrier mix, “Scruffy,” was taken from a car. His tail is not clipped and curls into a circle. He has a green collar. His family is very upset, especially the little boy. A [...]
A toy drive organized by students of the Union-PSCE Service Committee will support William’s Christmas Kids Foundation, a local non-profit organization that gives toys to children living in the area’s poorest neighborhoods and terminally ill children throughout the Tri-Cities area. As part of the outreach, nearly 300 children will select from 1,000 toys at a [...]
Volunteers will grab their shovels, don their work gloves, and gather at 9 a.m. on Saturday, December 12, rain or shine, to plant seven trees in Richmond’s Battery Park. The volunteers, Richmond Tree Stewards, Friends of Battery Park and neighbors, will meet at the Stone House, 2803 Dupont Circle, and then disperse to five sites [...]
Richmond Slumlord Watch has a post up detailing some of the vacancies on the 3100, 3300, and 3400 block of 2nd Avenue. They count as many as 20 vacant buildings or empty lots — almost 50% of the available parcels! Go checkout the post, along with pictures and details about who owns the properties. This [...]
