Missing since Friday, Feb 3, from 3101 Stonewall Ave. Obit is a small (7 lb) black and white female cat with a faint, squeaky voice. She is quite friendly, but not very traffic savvy. If you see her, please call 804-233-1642 or 804-212-6090.
One of the many advantages of living here is the river and local watershed. What you might not realize is that there are volunteers educating and working to improve the area’s water assets. One organization is the Reedy Creek Coalition. The RCC has started a semi-regular educational series and are nice enough to let me share [...]
I’m not going to spoil the ending but I’m told that one of our lovely neighborhoods will be featured in the week’s episode of House Hunters. If you aren’t familiar with House Hunters, it’s a show on HGTV where a home buyer lists what they are looking for in a home and then are shown [...]
As part of the new Huguenot High the old water tower had to come down. This picture was taken on Friday. Some more pictures and memories at Richmond Views. For those of us who went to Huguenot High School, the water tower is a significant piece of our high school memories. Every year book included [...]
Above is a portion of a Food Desert map that was developed by the USDA Department of Economic Research Service. There does seem to be a bit of a glitch in the map. When I first did a map for our area I simply typed area code 23225 and that is where the image above [...]
Below is some edited information about an accident that a Woodland Heights resident experienced this morning. This morning (around 7:40 am) while on my way to work. When driving east on Bainbridge, just past Clopton by the Boys and Girls Club, a young, African American man in a maroon 4-door Sedan drove a considerable distance [...]
From the RPD daily report; 3rd Precinct BURGLARY (COMMERCIAL) 1/26/12 – 2/2/12 1:00 p.m. – 7:30 a.m. – 7017 Forest Hill Ave. (The former location of Liberty Valance) An unknown person(s) entered the building under renovation and stole copper pipes. What is interesting is the phrase “under renovation”. Anyone know anything? 3rd Precinct BURGLARY 2/2/12 [...]
From Mark Person GW class of 1974 and Westover Hills Resident: We (Patricia Herrera and Laura Browder) are two University of Richmond professors who are teaching a class on civil rights and education in Richmond—and this year our focus will be on Wythe, a school that has changed a great deal over the decades.
It has largely flown under the radar but the Mediterranean Brick Oven (2557 Sheila Lane by Lowes) is starting to get some notice. Good reviews from both Richmond.com, Richmond Magazine, and readers are bringing it some attention. I checked it out a week or so ago and can say without hesitation the homemade pita, hummus [...]
Go here to purchase the deal which you can only use on food. I’m not saying I go to Legend frequently but the picture is of nachos from spring of 2011 because they no longer use multicolored chips and instead of that horrid cheese goo actually melt shredded cheddar cheese under the broiler now. The [...]
Hills and Heights confirmed a comment left on this thread that Lee Shewmake, resident of Woodland Heights is tossing her hat into the ring. Some of Lee’s most current accomplishments include being the current president of the Woodland Heights Civic Association, active in establishing Patrick Henry School, and worked with the committee to have the Woodland [...]
Simba is a brindle pitbull mix, that has gone missing. While searching for him in Forest Hill Park the family was told that some guy thought he was a stray and took him home. The good Samaritan supposedly lives in the neighborhood somewhere near 42 and Springhill but the exact location and name of the [...]
Notice anything interesting in the picture above? It is a FourSquare list of great places to visit in RVA. For those not up to speed on FourSquare it is an smartphone app that allows you to check it to various locations and receive point and virtual badges. Upon checking in often you will see recommendations, [...]
Westover Hills Library has a new Library Associate in Children’s Services. Kim Smith came on board this past Monday. Bringing over ten years of library experience in children’s programming she will be a tremendous asset to our neighborhood library. Story times will resume this Thursday, February 2nd (today), and continue on the following regular schedule:
Filed under stories that won’t go away, Richmond Magazine.com and Chris Dovi have the news that Jennifer Walle has filed a $5,350,000 suit claiming that “Ms. Graziano, Mr. Rogers and others not named as defendants combined to discredit and harm Ms. Walle… and force her from her job and from public service in general.” Walle, the suit alleges, [...]
Wednesday February 8th, 7pm, Westover Baptist Church FREE Spaghetti Dinner before the meeting 6:00-7:00pm Sponsored By: Councilwoman Kathy Graziano, Councilman Doug Conner and Westover Baptist Church Please RSVP for the dinner to: katielemmert@gmail.com or Pastor Justin Joplin justin@westoverbc.net This is a great opportunity to get to know your neighbors, build a strong community and make [...]
Anyone that lives or travels by 5047 Forest Hill Ave knows when the folks at Blanchard’s are hard at work roasting their coffee. We have been lucky enough to have access to truly locally roasted coffee. It doesn’t get more local than a few blocks. I heard rumors a little bit ago that Blanchard’s was [...]
From the RTD this morning we have two bits of City Council Member news on Marty Jewell of the 5th District.
Everyday many of you drive past the re-opened Patrick Henry School of Science and Arts. The obvious improvements are easy to spot, less litter, no broken windows, new playground equipment. What you don’t see is all the other work that’s being done, who is doing it and the tremendous benefit that Reedy Creek watershed receives.
Demolition of the old Caraustar industrial paper mill (115 Hull St.) in Manchester had already begun when Fountainhead stepped in and stopped the wrecking ball. Richmond Bizsense.com has the full story on some new apartments that are on the way to Manchester and the made for TV story of how the building was saved at [...]
Groupon deal for O’Toole’s. The deal is for food only, no booze. Isn’t Guinness considered a food?
Great day for the Patrick Henry Winter Market (10-12) and I’ve heard that Mrs. Yoder’s Donuts and Pizza Tonight will be there in full operation. Sunshine, donuts and pizza sounds pretty good to me.
Any story on traffic circles tend to be instant conversation starters. I’ve gone on record as stating that I’m a supporter of traffic circles but might be in the minority. Read most of the comments in these stories to see where a good chunk of the readers (or at least those that comment) stand, hint [...]
I’ve mentioned RichmondOutside in passing before but now there is another reason to put the blog on your daily radar. As you can guess from the name RichmondOutside covers all that happens outside your four walls. The brains behind this endeavour are Phil Riggan formerly of James River News Hub fame and currently at Richmond.com [...]
