Councilman Doug Conner Invites You to Today’s 9th District Meeting
MEETING REMINDER! Don’t forget that today at 5pm is the first meeting of the new year in the 9th District… 9th District Councilman Doug Conner invites you to the first meeting of the new year to discuss events and issues of local interest to the Southside Gateway community, and we hope you will attend! This will [...]
Southside Restaurant Eat Rice Robbed
We’re saddened learn that one of our favorite restaurants on Southside, Eat Rice, has become a casualty of robbery, which has plagued the Jahnke Road area over the past couple weeks. Thankfully no one was hurt. The Richmond Times Dispatch has the details. No one was injured in the armed robbery of a South Richmond [...]
RTD & WWBT12 Cover Recent Crime in Hillside Court
Today’s Richmond Times Dispatch has a front page article detailing recent events in the Hillside Court area of the south eastern part of the city. You can read the complete story here. In a related story, WWBT12 is reporting today that the suspect wanted in Tuesday’s shooting has turned themselves in. You can read the [...]
Arrest Has Been Made in New Year’s Shooting on Southlawn Avenue!
An Email Advisory from the Richmond Police Department, dated 1/20/2011 announces that an arrest in the Southlawn Avenue Homicides on New Year’s Eve. We congratulated the RPD on all their hard work to solve this crime! You can also read about it at the Richmond Times Dispatch. Richmond Police investigators have arrested and charged Ivan [...]
Hillside Court Shooting Victim Identified
The Richmond Times Dispatch has just reported an update on yesterday’s shooting incident in the Hillside Court area of Richmond. Richmond police today were searching for several males believed to have been involved in the shooting of two women, one fatally, in the Hillside Court area of Richmond shortly after 7 p.m. Tuesday. Police spokesman Gene Lepley [...]
First 9th District Community Meeting of the Year to Discuss Midlothian Turnpike
9th District Councilman Doug Conner invites you to the first meeting of the new year to discuss events and issues of local interest to the Southside Gateway community, and we hope you will attend! This will be an important meeting as the primary item of agenda is to provide updates on various Midlothian Turnpike Improvement Projects. [...]
Community Meeting on Jahnke Road Area Crime Happening Thursday, January 20
Our friends over at the great Hills & Heights blog have an important update on a meeting concerning recent crime in the Janke Road area that I’m passing along since that’s close to our neck of the woods. (News of the robbery at Ho-Wah came as particularly unsettling taken into consideration that I was picking [...]
Suspects Sought in Overnight Shooting in Hillside Court, One Fatally Shot
The Richmond Times Dispatch has just posted an update on a shooting that also took place on Tuesday evening, January 18, 2011 in the Hillside Court area, which is located east of the city between Jefferson Davis Highway and Commerce Road. Richmond Police today were searching for several males believed to have been involved in [...]
Domestic Violence & Armed Robbery Hit Southside
Last night proved to be a busy night on the south side of the Richmond with an armed robbery and domestic assault. These incidents were reported in today’s Richmond Times Dispatch for events occurring Tuesday, January 18, 2011. Both incidents occurred outside our focus area but I’m including them since they are reported as taking place [...]
Dead Malls
Found a couple odd websites today while we’re on the subject of Cloverleaf Mall. You might want to look at DeadMalls, which includes references to Richmond’s Cloverleaf Mall and Azalea Mall (as well as my hometown Mall Walnut Hill in Petersburg, VA.) On the other hand, I also found I Hate Malls which gave me a [...]
Updates on Cloverleaf Mall Renovations
We’re excited to hear that the county of Chesterfield is finally getting back to determining the outcome of Cloverleaf Mall. While the property is just outside the city limits, it’s close proximity to Chippenham Parkway makes it a prime location of interest to residents of Southside, both east and west. What opened in 1972 was [...]
Southside Snowfall
Southside never looks so good as in a snowfall. Happy Winter!
Southside Coffee Shops Get Lots of Notice on New RVA Blog
Our great friends at the newest foodie oriented blog in RVA - www.InTheToGoCup.com – have brought attention to some of Southside’s restaurants, from the wonderful neighborly favorite coffee shop Crossroads on Forest Hill to the latest addition for RVA coffee addicts, Taza Coffee N Cream. Their latest post is of the very cool and tasty Lunch Porter [...]
Bill Fisher Opens New Exhibition in Manchester
I’m excited to hear that Richmond painter Bill Fisher will be presenting a new series of works this month. Bill will be showing at Russell/Projects Gallery, one of Richmond’s newest galleries and which opened with much fanfare due to the owner/curator’s esteemed background. The gallery is located in the Plant Zero art complex in Manchester. [...]
New Year’s Homicide Victims Are From Jackson Ward
The Richmond Times Dispatch reported on January 2, 2o11 that the shooting victims of January 1, 2011 were from the Jackson Ward neighborhood. Article below: The new year was just a few hours old when a man and woman were shot to death in an apparent double homicide in South Richmond. Killed were Alex R. Arrington Jr. [...]
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