CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, VA -The Valentine Richmond History Center is sponsoring a bus tour of Chesterfield County's historic sites, Saturday, Aug. 1, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The tour will begin at the Valentine Richmond History Center and will travel south through Manchester to Magnolia Grange where participants will take a tour of the 1822 Federal-style plantation and see its distinctive architecture and embellishments. The tour will then continue to the Chesterfield County Museum Complex to have a box lunch and explore the site. The museum building is a reproduction of the colonial courthouse of 1750 and houses county history exhibits, including early Virginia Indian culture and artifacts from the first iron and coal mines in America. The last stop on the tour will be Eppington Plantation. Built circa 1770, Eppington sits on the banks of the Appomattox River. Thomas Jefferson's two youngest daughters, Polly and Lucy, lived at Eppington during Jefferson's years in Paris. Participants will tour the house and grounds before returning to the Valentine Richmond History Center. For more information, including pricing, call 804-649-0711, ext. 301, or visit www.richmondhistorycenter.com. The Valentine Richmond History Center is located at 1015 East Clay St., Richmond.

Units of the Bureau responded to the 1700 block of Varina Avenue in reference to a shots fired call. As units canvassed the area, two separate vehicles were discovered to have broken windows. Police received another call that occupants of a dark colored SUV on Brandon Avenue were breaking out car windows. [...]

Thanks the new Shockoe Examiner for tipping us off to the online archive of the Richmond Planet. My first search for “Fairmount” turned up this page with a advert for new lots in Woodville (PDF). Pretty cool.

Contributed by Bryan Nolde (Capital News Service) The most recent Friends of Jefferson Park meeting featured a presentation on plans to renovate Jefferson Park over the next year. Questions, ideas and laughter fill the room as the family gathers. Its members are linked not by DNA but by a common vision and determination. About 20 residents of Richmond’s [...]

Last night at VCU’s Grace Street Theater, Pandora founder Tim Westergren hosted a Listener Meetup for Richmond’s Pandora users, cheerfully explaining the company’s history, vision, and taking questions from the audience of about 100 local fans...

Two roundabout related bits for today. Proposed traffic circle at Westminster and Seminary DPW has proposed putting in a traffic circle at the intersection of Westminster and Seminary — to manage speeds at this intersection. Residents in the area would prefer a four way stop. Here are some of their thoughts: I think the traffic circle is overkill [...]

Some of you may have noticed the vegetation along the fence line at Wayside Springs on New Kent Road is dying. Does anybody know what the city uses to kill vegetation? Although you aren’t suppose to I do know some people use the spring for drinking water. It would be nice to know a bit [...]

A residential break-in that occurred Monday 6/29 in the 1900 block of Westover Hills Boulevard. The 1900 block of Westover Hills Boulevard has as it’s cross streets New Kent Road and Evelyn Byrd Road. Sometime between 7:00 a.m. & 4:00 p.m. the residence’s back door was kicked in and jewelry was removed. At this time we [...]

Richmond police are reporting a robbery on 6/29/09 at 11:15 p.m. at 6824 Forest Hill Ave. Although not listed in the report that address according to Google Maps is the 7-11 on the corner of Forest Hill and Hathaway.

Councilman Doug Conner, 9th District Representative will host  a meeting to organize and discuss community development, to make Southside a better place to better place to live, work, learn, play, visit, and raise a family. Invited attendees include representatives and leaders from:  Beaufont Hills Civic Association, Broad Rock Merchant’s Association, Midlothian Business Association, Chesterfield Square Tenants [...]