December 28, 2008
meet-up to get involved
We will be holding an informational meeting on Tuesday, Dec.30 at 7PM, for anyone interested in volunteering to post for River District News, Hills&Heights, or Carver&Jackson Ward News. Contact John Murden at murden@gmail.com to RSVP and for more info.
December 7, 2008
the end of the experiment
I started this site just over a year ago to see if a community news blog could take for the area. I think that it has worked well and still has even greater potential, but I’m not the person for this anymore. If someone from the area would like to pick up this site and make it their own, please comment below and I’ll get back to you.
December 7, 2008
towards the lowest homicide rate since 1971
The RTD has an in-depth look at the drop in violent crime in the city and what has helped make the change.
December 6, 2008
this week in Carver & Jackson Ward
25th Annual Christmas Parade; Black Dolphin Dive Club meeting; Black History Museum’s Annual Holiday Open House; Tuesday Verses; HJWA Christmas Celebration; MORE…
December 5, 2008
Sector 412 report for November
Lieutenant Morley’s monthly report from November (PDF) for the Richmond Police Department’s Sector 412 (which cover Carvers and a big chunk of Northside) is now available. No real Carver info this month, but there that nice photo from above.
December 4, 2008
this Friday is First Friday…
This Friday is First Friday and that means new shows! Before or after the Grand Illumination head north and check out Jamie Boling and Bill Donovan at Transmission Gallery, Gallery5’s National Juried Contemporary Craft Competition Sleight of Hand, art6’s Art in a Box Members Invitational, the grand opening of the holiday art/craft market at the fawn shop, AND MORE…
December 4, 2008
visit the fawn shop for local arts, crafts this holiday season
Shop local for the holiday season and support local artists @ the fawn shop (201 West Broad Street). Grand opening will be First Friday Dec.5
December 3, 2008
development on Lombardy, Marshall to come before council
The agenda for the Dec.8 City Council Meeting (PDF) has two items of specific local interest, both development proposals.
December 3, 2008
The Church Of Crystal Light at 3 months
Style Weekly turns their great lidless eye to Adams Street’s most garish music&art space, The Church Of Crystal Light:
Richmond has a long history of house shows, those venerable old homes rented to the young and music-savvy, who open their doors to traveling bands and the audiences who come to see them. These places are often passed down through generations of renters, and this is in fact how the Church of Crystal Light began.
November 29, 2008
25th Annual Richmond Christmas Parade is Dec.6
The 25th Annual Ukrop’s-Supervalu Richmond Christmas Parade will take place on Saturday December 6. The parade kicks off at 10AM at the Children’s Museum and move down Broad Street to 7th Street (2008 Christmas Parade route map).
November 29, 2008
this week in the area…
CACIL meeting; Tuesday Verses; 25th Annual Christmas Parade; Black History Museum’s Annual Holiday Open House; MORE…
November 27, 2008
the lost neighborhood of Navy Hill
The VCU Library’s Special Collection’s set of pages for Navy Hill is the only online resource that is readily available on this disappeared slice of Richmond:
If you are familiar with the history of Richmond, Virginia, you may be well acquainted with its historic neighborhoods, including Church Hill, Jackson Ward, and the Fan District. But are you familiar with Navy Hill? The Navy Hill section in the city of Richmond was located between 3rd and 10th Streets (within the boudaries of Jackson Ward) and ran just north of Leigh Street all the way to Shockoe Cemetery. Largely demolished in the 1960s, Navy Hill was once a vast and eclectic collection of houses, schools, businesses, and churches.
