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School Board adopts budget, changes opening times and snubs City Council
Despite pressure from City Hall and the community, as well as division among members, the Richmond School Board is moving ahead with plans to control devel- opment and construction of a replacement for the decaying, 60-year-old George Wythe High School in South Side.
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Building for children
Independent group pushes hospital plan despite skeptics
Independent group pushes hospital plan despite skeptics
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Fate of East End school on hold
When students, teachers, staff and administrators walk into George Mason Elementary School, two welcome mats greet them, each bearing the school’s name. The first one says “Expect the Best,” and the second says “Moving from Good To Great.”
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School Board eyeing reallocating $10M for school repairs
Richmond Public Schools officials want to reallocate $10.1 million to make acute emergency repairs to school buildings across the city.
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Sandra Sellars/Richmond Free Press // Tracy Sears, a local CBS news anchor, prepares to rappel 25 stories to the ground during the “Over the Top” …
Published on October 22, 2016
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Reconciliation rally // Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney addresses a crowd of hundreds Sunday during a solidarity rally at Richmond’s Slavery Reconciliation Statue at 15th …
Published on August 18, 2017
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In 2018 in Virginia, 278 people were killed in alcohol-related crashes and more than 4,400 people were injured, according to MADD. Fatalities were up 12 …
Published on November 22, 2019
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Danita Rountree Green, left, and Martha Rollins are co-CEOs of Coming Together Virginia, a local nonprofit organization that typically unites people over a meal to …
Published on March 14, 2024
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Virginia Union University’s president, Dr. Hakim J. Lucas places an honorary doctoral hood over the head of Dr. John W. Kinney in conferring his honorary …
Published on May 18, 2023
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Trump impeachment trial opens with GOP Senate majority rejecting Dems' attempts to bring in new witnesses
The U.S. Senate plunged into opening arguments Wednesday in President Trump’s impeachment trial, with Democratic House managers detailing the case that the president abused his power and should be removed from office.
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Virginia students protest Youngkin transgender policies
Student activists held school walkouts across Virginia on Tuesday to protest Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s proposed changes to the state’s guidance on transgender student policies, revisions that would roll back some accommodations.
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Virginia hopes to remove time capsule along with Lee statue
If a court clears the way, the state of Virginia expects to remove not just a soaring statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from Richmond’s historic Monument Avenue, but also a little-known piece of history tucked inside the massive sculpture’s base: A 134-year-old time capsule.
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Power in the word
Performing spoken word helps 15-year-old Leslie Reyes deal with the gruesome death she witnessed at age 9 of a 16-year-old friend. With a steady voice, Leslie tells a packed audience of more than 100 people that she watched her best friend die from gunshot wounds in El Salvador. She tells the room of mostly strangers about the “blood-covered gauze and stitched up holes on his shoulder and leg.”
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COVID-19 changes funeral traditions
COVID-19 has taken thousands of lives and upended business as usual around the world during the past few months. Just as the pandemic is changing daily life for millions, it is rapidly changing how the living lay their loved ones to rest.
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After delivering the introduction, Eric Branch turns the podium over to Gov. Terry McAuliffe for the announcement that 13,000 people once again will be able …
Published on August 26, 2016
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Former President Barack Obama energizes the crowd during a campaign appearance in Richmond with Virginia’s Democratic ticket candidates, from left, Justin Fairfax, lieutenant governor; Mark …
Published on December 31, 2017
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Weathering addiction
Spencer Christian, Va. native and former national television weatherman, has been haunted by a gambling addiction for decades
Growing up in Charles City County in the last decades of legally mandated racial segregation in Virginia, Spencer Christian did not think as a child he would someday become a top nationally known television weather forecaster. As a young adult in a new American era, he became a well-recognized television personality as part of ABC’s “Good Morning America” team for 13 years.
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Critics assail Trump panel recommendations that would strip students of civil rights while not boosting student safety
The Trump administration on Tuesday moved to roll back an Obama-era policy that was meant to curb racial disparities in school discipline but that critics say left schools afraid to take action against potentially dangerous students.
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Parent’s FOIA request shows more to RPS 2018 toilet paper debacle
Richmond Public Schools expects to finish the current school year with plenty of toilet paper, paper towels and cleaning supplies at each of its buildings, according to Michelle Hudacsko, chief of staff to RPS Superintendent Jason Kamras.
