This environmentally conscious business is based in Byrd Park and bicycle commutes to worksites all over the city. Here’s their press release: BIKE RUN MAID BRIGADE MAKES EVERYDAY EARTH DAY IN RICHMOND! Ultra Eco-friendly house cleaning service provides example of growing increase in Earth friendly consumer options and growing local economy. Riding bikes to help [...]
Bike-riders from all over will descend on Byrd Park on Friday, April 2nd at 2:30pm before scattering all over the city in search of their pirate booty. Please be extra careful of the colorful bicyclists as you drive through the neighborhood and around the park on Friday. The scavenger hunt is a bicycle race hosted [...]
Official Press Release: Welcome Spring with Arbor Day Workshops and Exhibits Saturday, April 3, in Byrd Park Get a head start on spring on Saturday, April 3, at Stay Co2ol with Trees, a free Arbor Day celebration from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Carillon in Richmond’s Byrd Park. During the festivities, Richmond will [...]
From a concerned neighbor: Please aware of drug dealer (s) walking 500 S Davis Ave @ night when u come and go…He or they walk the block back and forth ,back and forth from Rosewood to Maplewood and deliver to cars that pull up. Also some Drug activity on the 2400 Block of Rosewood Ave [...]
Press release from Richmond Crop Mob: RICHMOND, VA—Richmond Crop Mob will hold its first “mob” event Sunday, March 28, at the William Byrd Community House’s (WBCH) new urban Farmlet. The event will begin at 12pm and continue all afternoon, followed by a casual dinner hosted by WBCH and Crop Mob coordinators. Richmond Crop Mob is [...]
If you haven’t been inside all of the houses on your block, here’s your chance. A number of households in Byrd Park have been chronicling their home renovations on their personal blogs. Here are the ones I know about: * Kenneth inherited his house from his parents, but he didn’t inherit their tastes. Once the [...]
I snapped this pic with my phone on the way home from work. The workers report a lot of rotted out wood in the soffit on the facade of the West End Market at Idlewood and Shields. This upgrade is coming on the heels of recent removal of bars over the windows and installation of [...]
Potential regular feature: Do you have anything that you don’t know what to do with, but you suspect that the neighborhood could use it? Here’s an example: We were given three blueberry bushes, but we’ve got no space for them in the yard and no idea what piece of nearby public land makes the most [...]
This protruding pipe wrecks havoc on passing cars and especially bicycles. It’s in the Eastbound lane of Rosewood Ave at the Addison St intersection. In this picture, water pools in a depression in the road and the pipe rears its head like the Lochness Monster. Below that water, there’s another inch or two of pipe [...]
From: Jennifer B Email: angelfoodvirginia@gmail.com Phone: 888-652-0119 I have some content that is relevant to your blog. There is a local nonprofit called Angel Food who gives boxes of food to any family for $30. With rising food costs this should help families cut their food bills in half! I am getting the word out [...]
A new duplex is set to be built next to 2000 Lakeview Ave. Members of the Byrd Park Civic League (BPCL) took an interest in the planning process and will be continuing their communication with the developer, Mr. Gordon Estrada, at an open meeting at the Roundhouse on the Monday, March 15th, at 6:30 p.m. [...]
A controversially titled blog, Gentrifying Richmond: Transitional Neighborhood Lowdown, posted an entry in December giving suggestions on when/if a neighbor should call the police on another neighbor. However, now that the sun is starting to warm things up, people are coming out of their homes and laying eyes on each other in the full light [...]
From concerned Byrd Parker, Peggy Lynch: A bill increasing the authority of Game and Inland Fisheries to regulate the feeding of wildlife has recently passed the house and senate in Virginal and is awaiting the Governors signature. http://www.richmondsunlight.com/bill/2010/hb487 This bill underwrites the actions now underway in Byrd Park to address the geese in the park. [...]
A long set of stairs on the east side of Swan Lake was recently transformed into a long ramp. The gradually cascading cement steps (maybe one step every three to five feet or so) posed a problem for anyone on wheels and walkers/runners who appreciate a more predictable pathway.
