A Year in Focus-From marches to milestones, Richmond’s people and events shaped the year. Demonstrations, school celebrations, cultural festivals and sports brought the community together across the city. These images capture the moments that marked 2025 in Richmond. Van Tatum, a Carytown Kroger employee, restocks shelves with sparkling water — the last bottles remaining — after customers emptied the aisle on Jan. 7 within just two hours of Richmond’s boil water advisory. The alert came in the wake of a winter storm-related outage that knocked out a city water treatment facility. (photo by Julianne Tripp Hillian/Richmond Free Press)
