I was glad to see this, because I don’t want to live in a trashy neighborhood : Let’s paint the town GREEN! Join the VCU SGA’s trash clean-up initiative!!! When: January 31, 1:00-3:00 Where: Oregon Hill Neighborhood in Richmond *Meet at SGA office between 12:30-1:00 Why: Because really, who likes living in a trashy neighborhood?? [...]
VCU has closed ALL parking on the 00 block of S Pine (Just South of Main). This is a hardship to businesses on the Cary business corridor. It has been like this for too long. I don’t understand how the City allows indefinite closures like this at the expense of taxpaying citizens. They could easily [...]
Remember when VCU told Oregon Hill, the city, and the state that there was no alternative to demolishing the historic stables and encroaching further into the neighborhood in order to build the massive student recreational center? Now they just happen to buy most of a city block less than a year later from starting the [...]
Published with permission from OH email discussion, another take on the changing relationship between VCU students and the neighborhood: My observation is that there is an increasing trend for students living in our neighborhood and others surrounding VCU to be ever more and more oblivious to certain aspects of urban living and coexistence, including having [...]
Peter Bain designed this to help get people to consider the bus or walking/bicycling instead of the car. transitmap_v13
Candyland proprietor Todd Woodson recently submitted this: Here is some interesting footage from 1977 (although a little hippy-dippy) ferreted out by historian Ray Bonis and shot by a fellow named Glenn Hamm. Worth a watch for us lovers of things past… watch?v=Dq1Phaub8VU watch?v=zxniVe8n13I
Dear Monroe Park Campus Community Advisory Group: Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 1, at noon, VCU will conduct our once-a-month emergency siren test on both the Monroe Park and MCV Campuses to ensure that the sirens are in proper working order. This test also serves to ensure that the siren batteries are fully charged. Unlike the test [...]
Dear Monroe Park Campus Community Advisory Group: I wanted to let our neighbors know that at noon on Wednesday, September 3, 2008, VCU will conduct a full test of its emergency communications system. The full test of the system will include 10 sirens on both the Monroe Park and MCV campuses along with text messages, [...]
On behalf of Oregon Hill residents, I wish to express my appreciation for Michael Paul Williams’ Times Dispatch column this morning. The school has increased its enrollment by 9,000 students during the past decade. But it has struggled to keep pace — from a standpoint of resources and faculty — to fulfill its academic mission. [...]
Pretty low it seems. But back to this project…this is before adding the water. Tuitions Gone Wild, indeed!
