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New city protocol irritates City Council members

A Downtown restaurant preparing a weekend banquet for 250 people suddenly faced disaster when the water was cut off while ...

Sports

The late Richmond native and tennis great Arthur Ashe Jr. is remembered and honored with jerseys bearing his name during the All-Star Game at the baseball stadium located on Richmond’s Arthur Ashe Boulevard. Showing the jerseys to the crowd are, from left, Ben Rothrock, the Squirrels’ general manager; team mascots Nutzy and Nutasha; and Todd “Parney” Parnell, the Squirrels’ vice president and chief operating officer.

Parney puts the ‘pro’ in promoter for EL All-Star Game

With the theme “The Next Big Thing,” the Eastern League All-Star Game lived up to the hype — and then ...

Personality

Personality: G. Sylvia Jackson

She’s one week away from the 118th Annual Session of the Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star of Virginia, ...

Happenings

Scott Firestine, director of the Richmond Public Library, stands in the new children’s area at the Main Library in Downtown that includes computers for young patrons and their parents to use. The glassed-in area behind Mr. Firestine contains the new innovation center that is equipped with a 3D scanner, printer and other modern technology, which are among multiple changes happening inside the building at 101 E. Franklin St.

Richmond Public Library’s main branch goes through overhaul in way space ...

“We’re shaking off the dust,” said Scott Firestine, director of the Richmond Public Library. That’s his description of the changes ...

Faith News

Adeline U. Clarke kneels beside the recently installed marker at her parents’ gravesite in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Henrico County. She finished paying for the marker in November, but had to badger the cemetery for months before it was installed.

Families upset about late markers, poor service at Henrico cemetery

Adeline U. Clarke finally has the elaborate marker she paid to have installed at her parents’ graves in Forest Lawn ...

Obituaries

Pernell ‘Sweet Pea’ Whitaker

Boxing champ ‘Sweet Pea’ Whitaker killed in Virginia Beach accident

Pernell “Sweet Pea” Whitaker, a fourtime world champion boxer from Norfolk, died Sunday, July 14, 2019, after being struck by ...

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