City Government Will Be Open Monday, August 29 Richmond, VA – City Agencies will be open for regular business on Monday, August 29, unless otherwise noted. Employees needing special consideration as a result of storm damage should contact their immediate supervisor. The following city locations are closed due to lack of power: -Southside […]
Clean out your closet and donate those old band instruments to Linwood Holton Elementary School on Sunday, August 21, 1600 Laburnum Ave,. The Richmond Concert Band will present a free Concert “Old Instruments for Young Hands” and all you have to do is bring an old instrument or donate funds to buy band accessories. The […]
Take the little ones to the Children’s Museum of Richmond Saturday, August 20th for Moonbounce Mania. There will be moonbounces all over the museum for your kids to bounce themselves silly. The Museum is located at 2626 W. Broad Street, Richmond, get details at www.c-mor.org or call 804-474-7000.
The price to fill-up your gas tank is going down… and fast. “As crude oil prices go down, the gas prices are going down as well,” says AAA Mid-Atlantic spokesperson Windy VanCuren. VanCuren also says many investors are worried that the economy will only get worse. The silver-lining to that is gas prices may drop […]
Richmond City Council encourages Richmond families to attend one of four Richmond locations on Saturday, Aug. 13 to receive free school supplies for their children for the 2011-2012 Richmond Public Schools academic year. At the event, sponsored by Northside Coalition for Children, school supplies will be distributed to students enrolled in Richmond Public Schools from […]
The Appomatox River Water Authority has requested voluntary water restrictions for the City of Petersburg. The call by the water authority is due to the declining water level in Lake Chesdin. Lake Chesdin is the water supplier for the City of Petersburg, Colonial Heights and counties of Chesterfield, Dinwiddie and Prince George. Also, voluntary water […]
Leaders say the City of Richmond, Henrico, Hanover and Goochland counties will announce water conservation measures later this week because of low levels in the James River. In fact, voluntary conservation measures will likely are expected to be announced on Friday, August 12. Chesterfield County, whose water management plan is governed in part by the […]
A Richmond man has the first human case of West Nile virus infection reported in Virginia this year, according to the Richmond Times Dispatch. The man reported getting sick July 3 and spent more than a week hospitalized. West Nile virus is spread by the bite of infected mosquitoes and can cause mild to life-threatening […]
Richmond area school systems are reviewing ways to add guidelines for social media to their policies manuals, according to the Associated Press. Communicating via Facebook status updates and Twitter feeds is as common today as email was a generation ago, but none of the Richmond area’s four largest school systems has a specific policy outlining […]
GO VCU RAMS! The VCU Rams are the winners of the Espy Award. The Rams were awarded the ‘Best Upset” Espy award for the victory over Kansas in the Elite 8. The VCU Rams were represented at the awards ceremony in L.A. by Coach Shaka Smart, Jamie Skeen, Joey Rodriguez, Brandon Rozzell, Bradford Burgess and […]
Sunday and Monday evenings, traffic detours will be in place for the fireworks celebrations in the city, Richmond police said Tuesday, according to The Richmond Times Dispatch. On Sunday, the Lee Bridge will be closed from 5 to 10 p.m. to accommodate RVA Fireworks on the James, to be held on Brown’s Island. Northbound access […]
About 96 percent of the Chesterfield County students who began the 2010-11 school year as seniors graduated, according to a report the School Board will receive at its monthly meeting Tuesday night. The preliminary statistics show that 4,333 students earned diplomas. The school system counted 4,531 seniors in September for the Virginia Department of Education’s […]
