The Honorable Ellen F. Robertson, Councilwoman, Richmond City Council – Gateway 6th District, and The Honorable Chris A. Hilbert, Councilman, Richmond City Council – Northside 3rd District, today announce that the Virginia Army National Guard, 180th Horizontal Transportation Company 276th Engineering Battalion, will begin the First Phase of a project to clear the undergrowth in [...]
Update: The driver, William O. Ennis III, has died of his gunshot wounds at VCU Medical Center. The RPD are calling this a homicide. Investigators need the community’s help in identifying three possible suspects who were on the corner of Belvidere and Marshall streets at the time of the shooting. The first suspect is described [...]
The first reports of this were that a three year old girl had been found wandering the streets of Highand Park by the fire department — who were on a call nearby. Police tell us early this morning, in the dark, the 3-year-old walked out the front door of her home, without her mother knowing. [...]
A neighbor is wondering how to handle this: If your block has a nuisance property, what do you do? In the situation I have in mind, the City has somehow knowingly placed at least 12 people and 1 dog (that they abuse in the front yard) in a 1400 sq ft home. It’s quite a [...]
The Marty Jewell 3rd Annual Metropolitan Junior Baseball League Invitational Baseball Tournament will be held this Saturday at Hotchkiss Community Center Field, located at 701 E. Brookland Park Boulevard, and the Westover Community Center Field, located at 1301 Jahnke Road. The games are free to watch; open to the public; and, everyone is invited come [...]
The Books, Bikes, and Beyond Thrift Store will be vacating their space on Brookland Park Boulevard at the end of August and moving to Broad Street in search of more space. (previously)
Rose Thornton, “the country’s leading expert in this field”, tales a field trip through Richmond scoping out old Sears homes finds several, though she only identifies one by street (a Sears Westly on Fauquier Avenue).
GCCR is proud to announce that the exhibit Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933 – 1945, on loan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will be on display in our Gallery beginning September 19th, 2010. The story of what happened to homosexuals in Nazi Germany is the subject of the exhibition, which was more than [...]
From a reader: I live in lakeside a few blocks from dumbarton and heard gunshots around 1:10am last night. i called the police and they said officers were already on the call looking to find where the shots were coming from. i believe i heard 4-5 shots. i was curious if anyone in the neighborhood [...]
Southside community blog Hills and Heights has a great post this morning on tree care during this recent weather: Large trees are a defining factor in the character of the many neighborhoods and are the most valuable assets to our landscapes. Please help them survive. Most of us know that newly planted trees need regular [...]
