The Community Thanksgiving Feast draws guests from around Richmond from every background. Now, Attendees of the annual gathering hosted by The Giving Heart at The Greater Richmond Convention Center can ride…
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The Richmond Christmas Mother Fund announced that it has awarded a $27,000 grant to FeedMore to provide meals to 2,000 Richmond families during the Christmas season. The meals will be distributed throughout…
Henrico Christmas Mother is a volunteer, county-wide, nonprofit organization with a mission to assist families during the Christmas season by providing a shopping experience characterized by choice and dignity. The…
Virginia Repertory Theatre announces the opening of The Velveteen Rabbit on Friday, December 4 at the Children’s Theatre at Willow Lawn, 1601 Willow Lawn Drive. The show runs through January…
The New Kent branch of the Heritage Public Library is in need of a permanent site. When the previous building fell into disrepair in 2008, the library relocated to a strip mall…
Wednesday night was a “roller coaster” of emotion for Evan McKeel as he stood on the stage waiting to hear his fate on the show. “It was very emotional,” he…
Julie Garner has described herself as a member of a club no one wants to be in. She is a parent who lost a child, tragically and way too young. Her…
In 1916, the famous New York architect, John Russell Pope, designed one of the largest private residences ever built in Richmond. On Monument Avenue, the 27,000 square foot Tudor-Revival house was…
In 1892, Major Lewis Günter decided to build the finest hotel in America, in Richmond. Some would say he succeeded, considering its impressive guest list, which included Teddy Roosevelt, Bette Davis,…
On November 20, 1909, the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia voted itself into existence. It was the first women’s voting rights organization in Richmond and it had just eighteen members,…
Like over 46 million other Americans who plan to travel fifty miles or more over Thanksgiving, the Thompsons are hitting the road for the holiday this year. And not to…
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” –Nelson Mandela Janeva Smith was nineteen and living in a car…