This past Tuesday night at its monthly meeting, the Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association once again voted and re-, re-, and re-affirmed its support for Urban Business District zoning for W.Cary St. and 100 block of Belvidere (we have been voting on this since at least 2002). We want to save the small businesses and houses [...]
The Richmond Times Dispatch has an article about St. Andrew’s School students painting a mural in honor of the late Jonny Z. “ART 180 enlisted the help of students at St. Andrew’s to come up with ideas for the mural. Zanin’s friends told the students about Jonny Z — about his love of art and [...]
Through talking to an employee at 821 Cafe, I cobbled together the following information about businesses on the 800 block of West Cary Street, Oregon Hill’s commercial face, and it’s all exciting news.
This Monday, June 16th, SynerGeo will have our Oregon Hill Community Dinner at 6pm. The dinners are held every 3rd Monday of the month(except August due to our volunteering trip to Seattle. Our doors will be open with lots of food to share! I plan to pass out little flyers at the movie friday night [...]
June 17 @ 7 p.m. William Byrd Community House 224 South Cherry St. Richmond, VA 23220 In April, two Virginia activists walked three days south crossing the Arizona desert into Mexico. They walked in solidarity with the countless number of people who traverse the dangerous terrain in search of better lives in the U.S., to [...]
RICHMOND, VA May 30, 2008. Six Burner Restaurant will host a benefit for the Byrd House Market on Wednesday, June 18th from 5:30 to 9:30 pm. Diners will receive a delicious three course dinner for their donation of $35 to benefit the Byrd House Market, a program of William Byrd Community House. The William Byrd [...]
There will be another litter pickup this Saturday (6/7) @ 9AM. Like usual, we will meet at the gazebo (Pine St. & Oregon Hill Pkwy). Please bring gloves, garbage bags will be provided.
Just one of the things that makes OH a great place to live. The Water Horse was the feature this past Friday night.
One of the few good things about the VCU rec center project is that VCU will finally properly renovate the historic City Auditorium building. Right now you can really see and appreciate this magnificent architecture of the original structure, though sans its supporting stables. It was the ‘white elephant’ arts center project of its day, [...]
