RVANews and its partner site, RVABlogs, which spearhead the all encompassing RVA “blogosphere” released the winners of 2008’s Blog Awards today.  We’d like to pass our congratulations along to:

• Best New Blog – The Checkout Girl
• Best Kept Secret – 10 South Boulevard
• Best Comment Thread – RVANews Richmond mayoral forums
• Post of the Year – NBC12 anchor Gene Cox pissed he didn’t make Style’s Power List from Tobacco Avenue
• Best Blog – Tobacco Avenue

Congratulations to us! The Near West End News, along with all of the other community blogs that started in 2007 were honored with the Best New Blog award from RVA News.

Here they are: Carver & Jackson Ward News, Chesterfield Daily, Church Hill People’s News, The Fan District Hub, Hills and Heights, Near West End News, North Richmond News, Oregon Hill, Petersburg People’s News, River District News, West of the Boulevard News. (See links to the lower right).

Also of note, my buddy, TRIgirl 40, won the Best Topical Blog with her Journey to Ironman blog.

Go over to RVA News give a little love to all those blogs you read (including this one). The 2K7 Blog nominations are in, and voting is underway. Your vote will especially be appreciated because most of us write for fun, for free, and for you.