May 17, 2008
Java Mio’s new hours
Monday-Thursday, 7am to 7pm
Friday, 7am to 10pm
Saturday, 8am to 5pm
May 16, 2008
Life Through Literature
Life Through Literature, a Hometown Festival, will be held at Poplar Lawn Park May 31 through June 1 and will include food, vendors, games, contests, music, dancing, giveaways, books and authors. Vendors are encouraged to sign up early for best locations. For more information contact: Cynthia Nance 733-2387, x21
May 16, 2008
Petersburg students are learning to write Chinese
The second grade students in teacher Nancy Grosvenor’s class at A.P. Hill Elementary School in Petersburg have been learning this semester how to write simple phrases and words in Chinese – the language of more than a billion people.
May 15, 2008
Konnections: Kids, Kops, Bikers… Challenging all to care
Come out on May 17, 2008 as the Petersburg Bureau of Police and the local motorcycle clubs partner up in the community initiative called Konnections. This is a free event — free food, drinks, games, face painting, & a lot of family FUN.
May 15, 2008
PSAs from Petersburg City Public Schools
1) Black and Gold SOL Round-up at Peabody Middle School, Saturday, May 17.
2) The Petersburg School Board will hold its 2008 Retirement Banquet on Thursday, June 5.
May 15, 2008
Zillow says: Q1 08 Petersburg home values up 2.6% vs. Q1 07
The above comes from Zillow’s Home Value Trends in Petersburg. Not bad in a context of the 7.5% national decrease cited for single-family homes.
Another interesting page on their site: Zillow’s Quarterly Home Value Reports. The map gives a color-coded sense of how different areas in Richmond are doing — look for more details by hovering your mouse over the various diamonds on the map. To cite a few numbers, looks like the Fan has observed a 2.7% decline in values, while Mechanicsville has witnesed a 5.7% increase over the same period.
May 14, 2008
“Relay For Life” 6pm May 16th to 6am May 17th
The American Cancer Society Relay for Life presents “Celebration of Life”. This is the 25th year of bringing communities together under the stars. The walk begins at 6pm at A. J. White Field on the campus of Petersburg High School.
May 14, 2008
Nickel and Dimed, opening this Friday!
Nickel and Dimed, Joan Holden’s play based on the book “Nickel and Dimed: On (NOT) Getting By In America,” will open this Friday, May 16, at Sycamore Rouge. The play follows the story of Barbara, a middle-aged, middle-class journalist, as she tries to make a living working minimum-wage jobs. She asks: can she survive on $7 an hour?
May 14, 2008
Police Dept’s Community Noteworthies - May
Occasionally the local police forward ‘Community Noteworthy’ reports. I’ve been thinking about how to present them without the site being dominated by such posts, and have decided to make a post for each calendar month under which I’ll beam up incomings every few days under the appropriate month in the comments. At least until a better idea is suggested or otherwise comes to mind.
May 14, 2008
Agenda, tonight’s hearing on Section J of the School’s policy manual
Click here to read the agenda for tonight’s previously advertised meeting of the Board of the Petersburg City Public Schools. This hearing, to begin at 6 p.m. in the School Board Office, concerns Section J of the Petersburg School Board Policy Manual. Section J concerns student issues and the items up for revision include but are not limited to: exclusions and exemptions from school attendance; student dress and grooming; student conduct on school buses; and student suspension or expulsion. This is a public hearing and speakers will be able to discuss anything that pertains to the subject matter of the meeting.
May 14, 2008
Living history program commemorates lives of Southern Civil War civilians in Petersburg
On Saturday, June 7 the Second Presbyterian Church, 419 W. Washington St, will be the site of lectures, music, and living history programs which will take visitors back in time to Civil War era Petersburg. From 10:00am-5:00pm, visitors can witness events that pay tribute to the soldiers and civilians of Petersburg who worked together to fight for the existence of a Confederate States of America.
May 14, 2008
At last night’s public hearing on the budget at Vernon Johns
Per the P-I, folks called for full funding of police, full funding of schools, and a decrease in the tax rate. Once again (here, here, here, and here), the mandate seems to be: find a way to provide core services by making cuts elsewhere in the budget, liquidating assets, promoting business development, and/or ???, but not through an increase in real estate taxes. The article notes that in a similar context of rising assessments and an uncertain economy, Richmond has recently decreased the tax rate on real property.
May 13, 2008
Chamber Business Update Breakfast, May 20
This month’s Chamber Business Update Breakfast will be Tuesday, May 20, 7:30-9:00 am, at Old Towne Catering (9 W. Old St.). The guest speaker will be Ron Laux, COO of Workforce Success and Dr. Marshall Smith, John Tyler Community College. The topic of discussion will be the Military Spouse Training Program at Fort Lee, which Ron manages under a grant from Governor Kaine.
May 13, 2008
Military Officers Association of America awards scholarships
You “Stand at the Threshold of the Infinite” and “the choices made propels you through the doorway to your destiny” was the advice given to local high school students by guest speaker Colonel (Ret) Larry Watson as the members of the Southside Virginia Chapter of the Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) gathered to honor the 2008 Roper Memorial Scholarship winners. Participants in the competition must be the child or grandchild of a former military service member in order to qualify for entry.
May 13, 2008
In celebration of warm weather: it’s time for another “wassit?”
What’s a “wassit?” you might ask? Tis this. Send in your Petersburg-specific photo submissions (with some sort of identifying info please) between now and June 15, to info AT pburgpn DOT net. Do it.
May 11, 2008
Have you noticed the new banner-flag doodads that are up?
May 11, 2008
Code enforcement Q&A: *May 12*
The Historic Poplar Lawn Association will be holding a meeting Monday May 12, 7pm, in the basement meeting room of the library at Sycamore and Marshall. In attendance will be a city representative to discuss code enforcement concerns. Neighbors are invited to bring the addresses of problematic vacant houses that they would like addressed.
May 10, 2008
The Farmer’s Market!
Lots of produce, sweet-scented goodies for the garden, eggs, sausage, maple trees, …. it’s all there. Saturdays, 7am to noon. Present location: ** NOT at the Farmer’s Market building at 9 E. Old St. as indicated on Google, but a block north and 1-2 blocks east on River St, under what Google gives as the Adams St./2nd St. bridge.
May 10, 2008
Speak Up to Protect Family Involvement and Help Students with Disabilities Succeed
From the folks at JustChildren of the Legal Aid Justice Center: The Virginia Department of Education’s Draft Special Education Regulations make major cuts to parents’ rights to partner with schools. In addition to putting up barriers to family involvement, the draft regulations also create unfair rules and propose changes which will hurt the success of students with disabilities. The voices of families, teachers, students, and others who care about children with disabilities need to be heard at upcoming public hearings to ensure the draft regulations go back to the drawing board! Virginia needs to continue current protections and improve students’ opportunities for long-term success.
May 9, 2008
City clean-up events
On Saturday, May 17th volunteers from downtown businesses, the Phoenix Project, LISC, Elder Homes, Trinity Development, the City of Petersburg and Fort Lee will be joining forces to conduct two major clean-ups within the city.
May 9, 2008
School board to hold closed session May 12
The Board of the Petersburg City Public Schools will hold a call meeting on Monday, May 12 from 6 to 7 p.m., in the Board Room of the Petersburg School Board Office, 255 E. South Blvd. The meeting will be a closed session, to complete the annual evaluation of the Superintendent of Schools.
May 9, 2008
HPF Announces New Officers and Trustees, Presents Annual Awards
The Historic Petersburg Foundation, Inc. announced its new officers and trustees to the board at its annual meeting on Sunday, April 27, 2008 at the Pathways building on West Washington Street. Officers for the 2008-2009 fiscal year are: Larry Tucker, President; Guy Becker, III, First Vice President; Patty Pritchett, Second Vice President; Ann Morriss, Secretary; and LTC Garland Tompkins, Treasurer.
May 9, 2008
Letters presented to City Council calling for priority change
A number of people signed up to speak at this week’s City Council meeting (May 6) to call for a shift in city management’s priorities (in relation to the proposed 2009 city budget). As such, each person had only three minutes to speak, with the result that several individuals were not able to read their statements to Council in their entirety. To read the full text of the letter prepared by Jeff Munn, click here. To read the full text of the letter prepared by Kevin Brown, click here.
May 8, 2008
Chamber of Commerce announcements
1) Saving Program for Entrepreneurs
2) Small Business Information Session
3) Who’s Looking at My Site?
