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More rain Wednesday before a weekend taste of summer

2 days ago | richmonder.org | Sean Sublette

More than an inch of rain has fallen across most of Richmond through Tuesday afternoon, with substantially higher totals west of the city limits where there were more intense downpours. Areas from Short Pump through Midlothian, and south to Matoaca, picked up more than two inches. Another round of rain comes Wednesday in the form of numerous afternoon showers and scattered thunderstorms, then a drier period will follow for a few days.
Richmond man has run on all 2,200 of the city's streets

6 days ago | richmonder.org | Chris Suarez

Kirk Millikan runs these streets. All of them. Literally. Shortly before sunset last Tuesday, the Richmond native completed a six-year journey spanning nearly a thousand miles on all of the city’s 2,200 streets. “I figured a long-term motivating goal would be to run all the streets of Richmond. Back then, I didn't know that there would be a finish,” he said after reaching the milestone.
On Faith and Values: Best Thing about Walls? Knocking 'em Down

6 days ago | richmonder.org | Tom Allen

đź“ťTom Allen previously wrote a "Faith and Values" column for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He is the editor of the Virginia Journal of Education and the author of two books, "Grace Happens" and "Roll With It."I was hanging out in my motherâ€™s room in the rehab section of her retirement community, just a few minutes after the physical therapist had come and whisked her away for one of her twice-a-day sessions, part of her regimen of recovery after falling and breaking her hip.
Parks department retools urban ranger role in light of January shooting

1 week ago | richmonder.org | Sarah Vogelsong

After the Jan. 19 shooting of a city park ranger on Belle Isle, Richmond’s Department of Parks and Recreation is revamping its urban park ranger role to move it further away from an enforcement role and back toward a more educational and visitor services focus. “We got a little bit off track,” said Christopher Frelke, the department’s director.
Officials say correct tax rebate checks should go out by June 30

1 week ago | richmonder.org | Graham Moomaw

Due to the magnitude of the city of Richmond’s errors in attempting to send out 2024 property tax rebate checks to local taxpayers and the complexity of cleaning up the mistake, residents who have not yet received a valid check should expect to wait nearly two more months to get the money. Checks sent out in the original batch will expire on June 16, Interim Chief Administrative Officer Sabrina Joy-Hogg told the City Council on Monday afternoon.
RPS, bus drivers clash over alleged strike and firing of five employees

1 week ago | richmonder.org | Sarah Vogelsong

Tensions between Richmond Public Schools and the union that represents its bus drivers are at an all-time high after the division fired five drivers earlier this month over what it says was an unlawful strike that led to the cancellation of afterschool activities for thousands of students.
As Kings Dominion celebrates its 50th birthday, superfans say the park’s value helps set it apart

1 week ago | richmonder.org | Laura Finaldi

Norman Shumake has been going to Kings Dominion since 1976, the year after it opened. Raised in Louisa and currently living in Powhatan,Shumake said he remembers visiting goats and sheep at the petting zoo, watching a fireworks show during America’s 200th birthday, and walking to the front of the line of the Scooby-Doo roller coaster before thinking twice and making a quick exit before his mother realized what was going on. “I remember getting passes when I was five or six years old.
Neighbors move to drop lawsuit against VMFA art warehouse plan

1 week ago | richmonder.org | Graham Moomaw

After losing a zoning appeal, a group of Museum District residents have moved to drop their lawsuit challenging a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts plan to build an art storage warehouse on a mostly residential city block. The neighborhood group filed court paperwork last month to drop the suit that had been filed against the museum and city officials. Construction on the facility was already proceeding after the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals rejected an appeal from the neighbors in early March.
City Council’s apparent $50K budget boost for Michelle Mosby’s nonprofit was an error, official says

2 weeks ago | richmonder.org | Graham Moomaw

As the Richmond City Council wrapped its budget amendments Monday, members had $50,000 in taxpayer money remaining that hadn’t been dedicated for any particular purpose. In public, the council agreed to set that money to the side and figure out what to do with it later. But when the council published a document online this week formalizing its budget decisions, the spreadsheet indicated the $50,000 would go to the nonprofit run by former mayoral candidate Michelle Mosby.
Richmond cuts 200 seats in Head Start program as it struggles to get eligible families to enroll

2 weeks ago | richmonder.org | Sarah Vogelsong

Richmond will have 200 fewer slots next year for children to enroll in Head Start and Early Head Start, the nation’s preeminent early childhood education and care programs for low-income youth under the age of 6. While President Donald Trump’s administration has recently floated plans to defund Head Start nationwide, the Richmond decision is being driven by a more local problem: persistent underenrollment.