This is Hills and Heights.

Welcome to Hills and Heights! We put this site together to focus on issues specific to the near Southside area, namely Westover Hills, Forest Hill, Stratford Hills and Woodland Heights (i.e. The Forest Hill Corridor). Like other hyperlocal journalism sites that are springing up across the country (like the nearby Church Hill People’s News and the West of the Boulevard News from Richmond, Petersburg’s Petersburg People’s News, Charlottesville’s cvillenews.com, and Harrisonburg’s hburgnews), we want to provide an online forum and focus for our community.

Hills and Heights is not a newspaper or magazine. We are a neighborhood news blog, a grass-roots publication with no staff reporters or editors. We are dependent on readers and contributors for all of our content.

This is a volunteer effort. If you are interesting in helping in any capacity, please contact us. We need reporters, photographers, and community contact liaisons. We would really like to find someone to report on sports and events at the local schools, and representatives from the local civic leagues. This is a chance to share your voice and knowledge.

If you or your organization have information, news or calendar events that should be publicized, please submit them for publication.