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Community Vaccination Center opens at Richmond Raceway

A reinstated mass vaccination clinic at Richmond Raceway on Laburnum Avenue got off to a busy, though rocky start this week, with officials promising a quick adjustment to accommodate the unexpected demand for shots.

Free COVID-19 testing, vaccines

Free community testing for COVID-19 continues.

School Board members introduce teacher collective bargaining resolution

Is collective bargaining coming to Richmond Public Schools?

New programs at George Wythe and John Marshall aimed at boosting student achievement

George Wythe and John Marshall high schools are big winners of the Virginia Department of Education’s 21st century Community Learning Center grants.

$22.3M: The amount the city expects the surplus to be from 2020-21 fiscal year

A $22.3 million surplus, equal to $96 for every man, woman and child in Richmond.

Wrinkle in process means RPS doesn’t have access to city-managed school construction money

Richmond Public Schools has hit an unexpected roadblock on its way to hiring an architectural team to design a replacement for decaying George Wythe High School.

3 City Council districts likely to see boundary changes

Redistricting could end up being a breeze for Richmond City Council.

Va. redistricting commission fails to agree on boundary changes for state legislative districts

The Virginia Supreme Court will do it. The state’s highest court has been handed the constitutional task of redesigning the boundaries of the 100 state House of Delegates and 40 state Senate districts.

Cold meals another hot topic at School Board meeting; new vendor sought

Most students in Richmond elementary schools started receiving hot meals on Monday, just hours before the Richmond School Board met and voted unanimously to rescind the $12.9 million food contract awarded during the summer to Illinois-based Preferred Meals to provide …

Doubling down

Do you want a gambling casino built on a 100-acre commercial property in the South Side?

Pharrell Williams says ‘toxic energy’ tanked 2nd ‘Something in the Water’ in Va. Beach

Hometown or no hometown, music superstar Pharrell Wil- liams is pulling his hugely successful “Something in the Water” music festival out of Virginia Beach.

Henrietta Lacks estate sues company using her ‘stolen’ cells

COLLEGE PARK, Md. The estate of Henrietta Lacks sued a biotechnology company on Monday, accusing it of sell- ing cells that doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took from the Black woman in 1951 without her knowledge or consent as part …

30 years after testimony, Anita Hill still waits for change

America had yet to really understand sexual harassment when Anita Hill testified against Clarence Thomas in front of an all-male U.S. Senate panel in October 1991. He was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court anyway, but Ms. Hill’s work was …

’Surviving COVID: Local author details battle her husband endured and she waged against the virus

He survived. This is the detail that Charlene Warner Coleman wants Richmond — and the world, really — to know about her husband, Ed Coleman, and his near-death battle with COVID-19 during the pandemic’s early stages in 2020 when the …

Surprised again, Richmond’s Ashley Bland named state Region 1 Teacher of the Year

Ashley S. Bland thought she was giving a simple tour Monday of the outdoor environmental learning center she helped create at John B. Cary Elementary to Gov. Ralph S. Northam and his wife, First Lady Pamela Northam, Mayor Levar M. …