No injuries were reported in the early morning fire in the old brick building directly across from Patrick Henry School. Traffic was a mess including a small fender bender pictured in the slideshow. The building looks to be heavily damaged. Some local news coverage after the break.
How to get rid of old drugs and a suspicious character come to us from the Forest Hill Neighborhood Watch. Do you have any old or expired prescription medicine sitting in your medicine cabinet? On April 30, 2011 (10am-2pm), the Drug Enforcement Administration is teaming up with local law enforcement to collect your old medicine. [...]
Local renaissance man Keith Ramsey recently took his laptop and sat down at Plant Zero Cafe and wrote a review of the coffee shop. I’ll let you dive into the review but I liked this dead on description. This small cafe can easily match the creative feel of its surroundings with the beautifully designed courtyard right [...]
From Richmond MORE: The Ride Giant Demo Tour for mountain bikes comes to Forest Hill Park on April 9 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The Richmond Chapter of MORE is helping out after trail building and is planning a cook out for members and guests. Check out the Giant USA site to see more event details.
I’ve heard that Asian Galaxy on Forest Hill Ave (in the old Planet Wings) is now open but haven’t made it up to it yet. Anyone been or even seen a menu? Style Weekly has some morsels on the opening of Parkside. The discussion going on here is the best coverage I’ve seen of the [...]
Yesterday it felt like summer but we know it was just a tease. It’s not really summer until you head down to Forest Hill Park and hit up the South of the James Farmers’ Market. The first day of the market is May 7th but the good folks of Market Umbrella have a great tease [...]
Editorial by H&H resident Leigh Ann McKelway First the facts: The Richmond Department of Public Works has designed a project to widen Forest Hill Avenue between Powhite Parkway and Hathaway Road. The proposal calls for four travel lanes that are each 11 feet wide, a raised median that is 14 feet wide plus bike lanes [...]
CELEBRATE WETLANDS! Saturday, April 9 from 9:00 am – 11:00 am Join the Reedy Creek Coalition in a Nature Walk and Stream Clean-up around the Beaufont Grove Wetland located in the headwaters of Reedy Creek.
Small black cat, approximately six to eight months old. Found at the Westover Hills Dollar Store on Monday,”Wearing a collar and a flea collar. Very comfortable in the house and is very, very sweet. Please call: 804.291.3832 if this is your cat. Another pic after the jump.
I wish I had one of those flashy graphics you see on the news but I don’t. What I can do is give you a taste of the epic battle of man vs. swine and then you can head over to James River News Hub to get the full story as told to Phil Riggan [...]
This historic diner located at 1228 Hull St is now on Craig’s List. The diner was opened in 1941 and since it was open 24 hours a day didn’t close it’s doors until it was closing them for good in 1969. The Craig’s List ad is well written and worth a read and there is some [...]
On April 12, 1961, Russian born Yuri Gagarin was the first human to orbit the Earth. A crater on the far side of the Moon is named after him- let’s celebrate his achievement! When: Saturday, April 9th 7:00 p.m. Where: The Westover Hills Library, 1408 Westover Hills Blvd.
From the Maymont Twitter feed the Scottish blackface sheep show their support.
The following is not a late April Fools joke, as far as I know, which isn’t very far. From Cristi on the Woodland Heights Yahoo Group there is this report: I hear there was a PIG ( Black, about 150lbs, maybe potbelly type) in the parking lot down at James River Park this morning which [...]
Starting in May of this year the city is implementing a new program that any river floating device using the James River within city will be required to pass a simple yearly inspection and display a color coded sticker.
