The Oregon Hill Home Improvement Council will be holding its monthly board meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, December 1st, at the Jacob House at 619 W. Cary St. at 7 PM. All are welcome. This is a great time to remind that OHHIC has affordable houses for sale in Oregon Hill.
From RichmondBizSense.com: Gammino practiced law for more than a decade but left the legal profession to start his contracting business, which he grew a knack for after buying and fixing up homes in Oregon Hill. A native of Providence, R.I., Gammino has lived here since 1989, when he moved here to attend law school at [...]
Bryan Green, a Pine Street resident, wrote an editorial that recently appeared in the Times Dispatch newspaper: One thing advocates of “smart growth” and supporters of historic preservation agree on is the importance of concentrating development where existing infrastructure is already dense — and where houses, businesses, schools, hospitals, and public transportation are already located. [...]
I have not had time to plug it or refine it as much as I would like, but there is an ‘online store’ at Zazzle.com for buying Oregon Hill-branded clothing and items. Proceeds go to the Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association. You can get some great deals from the store today with promo code, ‘ZAZZLEFRIDAY’.
From The Times, November 25, 1900, (The article is entitled, “Pushing Work On Hollywood Line”). It is claimed by friends of the Passenger and Power Company that the placing of this additional line from Hollywood and Oregon Hill down Main Street all the way to Fulton will give the public better facilities not only through [...]
As one of Richmond’s natural high points and one of Richmond’s urban, riverfront neighborhoods, we have a special responsibility to curtail stormwater runoff.
This column appeared in The Times Dispatch, on November 23, 1904: Editor of The Times-Dispatch: Sir, -Please answer in your query column what per cent. of grade are the hills in and about Richmond, and oblige, B.W. …. Oregon Hill – Albemarle and Pine Streets, elevation 170.6. … These elevations are above mean high tide. [...]
The next Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association (OHNA) meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, November 24, at 7 pm. Because some of the William Byrd Community House staff are on vacation then, I am moving the location of the meeting to the Jacob House, at the corner of S. Pine and W. Cary. Lt. Baltz from Richmond [...]
From announcement: It’s that week when we feast til we burst! OK, almost burst. As we prepare to grace family and friends by sharing great food and warm company, remember the RENEGADE Market is open this week –Tuesday from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm– to make available the freshest produce, meats and baked yummies available [...]
I don’t think this has anything to do with this morning’s Dirt Woman sightings on Grace Street, but I did come upon this spectacle on 100 block of S. Pine:
