Wear Your “I Voted” Sticker and … Chick-Fil-A has a sign up that says if you bring your “I voted” sticker in today between 10:30 am and 8 pm, you get a free sandwich. You must have a sticker and turn it in to get the free sandwich. Krispy Kreme Doughnuts: One free star-shaped doughnut with red, [...]
The University of Richmond will host a debate among the five candidates for mayor of Richmond Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. in Tyler Haynes Commons, Alice Haynes Room. The debate is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow. Questioners will represent local media, including the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Centro, Style Weekly, WWBT [...]
As reported in today’s Times-Dispatch, the University of Richmond is one of about 1,000 schools affected by Commonfund’s Short Term Fund’s decision to partially freeze withdrawals this week. Wachovia Corp is trustee for the $9.3 billion fund. According to the article: Herb Peterson, UR’s vice president for business and finance, called the action “concerning but [...]
Today, Wednesday October 1st, Barack Obama and John McCain’s top energy advisors will be debating at the University of Richmond Law School. What better way to get your questions answered about what Obama and McCain plan on doing! There is no better way to show what we want from a clean energy future than to [...]
City of Richmond Department of Parks, Recreation & Community Facilities Contact: Christy Everson 804-646-5944 Richmond’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities will hold a community yard sale at its Westhampton Community Center on Saturday, Oct. 4, from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. The public is invited to both attend and participate, as proceeds from [...]
Hi all. As you may know, the NWEN blog has a Twitter account that sends updates to everyone following it every time we post an article on the blog. Great way for those in the “Twitterverse” to keep in touch with news and events going on around the NWEN community. I’d like to also mention [...]
The RVA blogosphere (here, here, here, here, etc.) has reported that Google Street View is now live throughout the metropolitan area. I actually posted a brief synopsis of the application over on my blog. Here’s a shot near St. Catherine’s School:
One of our readers sent us the following question: I live in Monument Avenue Crest (near intersection of Libbie & Patterson). Is there a neighborhood/civic association for my area? Any takers? :)
