Tricycle Gardens is hosting a class at Bryan Park on seeds and soil: Learn how to grown your own vegetables and flowers by starting them from seed. We’ll discuss everything you need to know to successfully start seeds for your garden, how to prepare your garden soil & how to care for your young seedlings. We’ll ...
The City of Richmond’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities is closing the main entrance to Bryan Park off of Hermitage Road tomorrow morning, Feb. 26, at 7 a.m. while it makes repairs to a broken water main. The department estimates that the main entrance to the park will be closed to vehicular traffic for ...
From the Mayor’s newsletter: Another of Richmond’s historic parks is also getting a remake. On the city’s north side, one project in Bryan Park is already complete and another is underway. The dredging of the park’s Azalea Garden pond (shown at right), which was choked with cattails, has been completed, and the pond’s fountain ...
Councilman Hilbert will be hosting one of his regular 3rd District meetings tonight at 6pm. The meeting will be held at the Richmond Police Department Training Academy auditorium at 1202 W. Graham Road Agenda 2010 Richmond Real Estate Tax Assessments James Hester, Richmond City Assessor Richmond City Council Office of the Assessor of Real Estate Richmond City Councilman Chris A. ...
The University of Richmond is partnering with Richmond Metropolitan Habitat for Humanity (again) to build an affordable house in spring 2010 at 621 E. Brookland Park Blvd in Northside Richmond’s Highland Park neighborhood. The student-run University of Richmond Habitat for Humanity Campus Chapter and the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) are working with RMHFH ...
Union-PSCE students, faculty and staff will join the staff of the Presbytery of the James to form a human chain from the Presbytery office to a waiting truck to load more than 2,000 hygiene kits that will be sent to Haiti. The rest of the press release is after the jump. ...
Barton Heights began as a real estate development project in the fall of 1880s, one of several contemporary efforts to create new suburban towns just outside the Richmond city limits in Henrico County. ...
Two homes on Chamberlayne avenue are scheduled for demolition as soon as the permits are approved. The two properties in question are 4200 and 4202 Chamberlanye Ave. The Ginter Park Residents Association is lobbying to save these historical properties: We’ve learned that the owner of the properties at 4200 and 4202 Chamberlayne Avenue (intersection of Bellevue) ...
Richmond Magazine has a couple more details on the opening of Enoteca Sogno on Bellevue Avenue. They confirm the new location is at the Bella Arte spot. I caught up with Gary York this afternoon. He confirms he will reopen Enoteca in the former Bella Arte space at 1223 Bellevue Ave. in late April or early ...
March 6th is the annual Holton 10k run/walk. The event raises money for a variety of Linwood Holton programs. Register for the 5k here. In years past, this event has helped raise as much as $4,000. This year, the 5K committee hopes to raise a solid $5,000 … a goal they feel is well within reason ...
NBC12 is running a story on more thefts of HVAC units. We covered a similar story back in December. The thieves didn’t break through a door or even try to go through a window. They went in through the crawl space. It happened in broad day light several times over a two-week period. [the police] call the ...
With Highland Park having one of the highest foreclosure rates last year in the Richmond metro area, our friends at U of R thought this may be of interest. It’s main purpose is to engage students, however all members of the community are welcome to attend. The Bonner Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) invites you to ...
School Board members are having meetings across the city to discuss Governor McDonnell’s recommendation to unfreeze the current “local composite index forumla.” The index determines, in part, how much state funding a school district receives. The Richmond City Schools would lose an additional eleven million dollars, bringing their budget shortfall to 28.8M$. The meeting will be ...
Our representative down at the General Assembly, Jennifer McClellan, is sponsoring a bill to commend the Ginter Park Residents Association on its 100 year anniversary (last year, its inception was 1909). Some quotes from the bill: WHEREAS, Ginter Park was conceived and planned by Major Lewis W. Ginter, a Richmond industrialist and entrepreneur, in the late ...
Update The cleanup has been rescheduled for March 20th due to the extreme wet conditions caused be the recent snows. Original We’ve gotten a bunch of emails about this weekend’s second annual Cannon Creek Greenway cleanup. Volunteers are needed! The event is a volunteer cleanup to remove unwanted trash and debris from the Cannon Creek Greenway, located in the ...
The Richmond Police Department needs the public’s help in identifying the suspect pictured in the attached photos. The man is wanted in connection with the robbery of a Wachovia Bank at 1800 Chamberlayne Ave. around 4:42 p.m. today. The suspect is described as a black male, medium build, age 30 to 40 with a short haircut, 5′7″ ...
From a couple different sources we have news that Enoteca Sogno is moving to Bellvue Avenue sometime in the near future. From RVAfoodie’s twitter: It’s official, Enoteca Sogno to reopen on Bellvue in April. Gary signed a lease this week. Viva Italian wine! #rva And also from the Epicuriousity blog: After several months of searching (soul and otherwise), Gary ...
How great is this? A resident of the neighborhood wanted a dog park, took some proactive steps working with the city, and now it is becoming a reality. From Richard Sebastian’s blog: I’ve been working with a small group of committed dog owners in the Northside community and with employees of the Richmond City Parks & ...
Richmond City Councilwoman Ellen F. Robertson, Gateway 6th District, will host a meeting in the Gateway 6th District. This is a continuation of regular meetings she typically holds on the second Saturday of each month, which include information on her Gateway 6th District goals and accomplishments; a thematic agenda of current interest; and, special guests. ...
From the folks who brought you superduper hyper local news over at The Boulevardizen, comes a new site that tracks some of the potholes springing up around town: Pothole City. The site allows users to add potholes, pictures, and rate their severity. Then it plots everything on a google map. It’s pretty cool. At this very ...