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![Over 100 Virginia Commonwealth University graduates walk out May 11 as Gov.
Glenn Youngkin delivers his 2024 Commencement address at the Greater Richmond
Convention Center.](https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2024/05/16/VCU_2024_Spring_Commencement_SS_051124_000_r190x220.jpg?15134d8ecf80f15357c5f07aa65289834e904796)
Over 100 Virginia Commonwealth University graduates walk out May 11 as Gov. Glenn Youngkin delivers his 2024 Commencement address at the Greater Richmond Convention Center.
Published on May 16, 2024
![With Dr. Alonza L. Lawrence presiding over Holy Communion on Sunday, March 24, members of Moore Street Missionary Baptist Church in Richmond’s Carver community recognized the sacred Palm Sunday occasion.](https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2024/03/28/Palm_Sunday_in_church_r190x220.jpg?15134d8ecf80f15357c5f07aa65289834e904796)
With Dr. Alonza L. Lawrence presiding over Holy Communion on Sunday, March 24, members of Moore Street Missionary Baptist Church in Richmond’s Carver community recognized …
Published on March 28, 2024
![DeAndre Smith and his son, Nuri Harris, 3, take a look at some of the Sling Shots from visiting riders attending the ribbon-cutting ceremony on the lot of Hot Wheelz Sling Shot Rentals.](https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2024/03/21/A1_Kid_Hot_Wheelz_Ribbon_Cutting_SS_031624_005_r190x220.jpg?15134d8ecf80f15357c5f07aa65289834e904796)
DeAndre Smith and his son, Nuri Harris, 3, take a look at some of the Sling Shots from visiting riders attending the ribbon-cutting ceremony on …
Published on March 21, 2024
![The property, located at 2200 Ingram Ave., will become income-restricted apartments and 15 new for-sale residences. The project is estimated to cost $45 million, with $20 million in government tax credits and other resources to finance the development.](https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2024/02/22/Cityscape_Former_Oak_Grove_School_Site_021724_SS_001_r190x220.jpg?15134d8ecf80f15357c5f07aa65289834e904796)
The property, located at 2200 Ingram Ave., will become income-restricted apartments and 15 new for-sale residences. The project is estimated to cost $45 million, with …
Published on February 22, 2024
![Setting sun over the James in Charles City](https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2024/01/04/Jame_River_Charles_City_r190x220.jpg?15134d8ecf80f15357c5f07aa65289834e904796)
Setting sun over the James in Charles City
Published on January 4, 2024
![William Fox Elementary School remains boarded nearly two years after a fire destroyed much of the building. In late November, the Richmond City School Board approved a $30 million contract from Gulf Seaboard General Contractors Inc., the sole bidder, for the reconstruction of the building. The building permit and trade permit applications are currently under review by the city administration, with contract details to be finalized and executed in the next two weeks. The cause of the fire, which occurred late at night on Feb. 11, 2022, remains unknown and is believed to have been an accident. Fox Elementary, which first opened in 1911, is scheduled to reopen in the Fall of 2025.](https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2023/12/07/Cityscape_Fox_Elementary_SS_120223_002_r190x220.jpg?15134d8ecf80f15357c5f07aa65289834e904796)
William Fox Elementary School remains boarded nearly two years after a fire destroyed much of the building. In late November, the Richmond City School Board …
Published on December 7, 2023
![Site work gets underway at Richmond High School for the Arts in South Side. A groundbreak-
ing ceremony for the new school took place last July. With 2026 its estimated completion date,
the new school will cost $154.6 million and house 1,800 students, the Richmond Free Press
reported earlier this year.](https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2023/11/03/Cityscape_George_Wythe_Construction_102823-_SS001_r190x220.jpg?15134d8ecf80f15357c5f07aa65289834e904796)
Site work gets underway at Richmond High School for the Arts in South Side. A groundbreak- ing ceremony for the new school took place last …
Published on November 2, 2023
![Zuri Grant, 4, tackles a giant haystack while visiting Gallmeyer Farms on Millers Lane in Henrico County with her mother, Briana Brockington, on Oct. 21.](https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2023/10/26/A1_child_102123_SS_001_r190x220.jpg?15134d8ecf80f15357c5f07aa65289834e904796)
Zuri Grant, 4, tackles a giant haystack while visiting Gallmeyer Farms on Millers Lane in Henrico County with her mother, Briana Brockington, on Oct. 21.
Published on October 26, 2023
![Julius Fillyow gets a visit from Cockatoos Bindi, left, and Coco, right, who were hanging out with owners Lucus Griffith and Lindsey Pennington.](https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2023/10/19/RVA_FOLK_FESTIVAL_101623_SS_018_r190x220.jpg?15134d8ecf80f15357c5f07aa65289834e904796)
Julius Fillyow gets a visit from Cockatoos Bindi, left, and Coco, right, who were hanging out with owners Lucus Griffith and Lindsey Pennington.
Published on October 19, 2023
![Johnny Noble reviews renderings of the new school after the ceremony.](https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2023/07/20/RPS_Ground_Breaking_SS_071523_041_r190x220.jpg?15134d8ecf80f15357c5f07aa65289834e904796)
Johnny Noble reviews renderings of the new school after the ceremony.
Published on July 20, 2023
![Landscaping work that started in early June by YME Landscape continues on the former site of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The Supreme Court of Virginia ruled Sept 2., 2021 that the state could remove the enormous statue that towered over Monument Avenue in the state’s capital for more than a century and had, for many, become a symbol of racial injustice. Calls to remove the statue and others like it that were and remain scattered throughout the United States increased following the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Detroit police on Memorial Day 2020. The defeated war general’s final fate came on Sept. 8, 2021, with the removal of a 21-foot high bronze sculpture in his image and his horse, Traveller, on a granite pedestal nearly twice that tall.](https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2023/07/06/Cityscape_Monument_Landscaping_SS_070123_012_r190x220.jpg?15134d8ecf80f15357c5f07aa65289834e904796)
Landscaping work that started in early June by YME Landscape continues on the former site of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The …
Published on July 6, 2023
![Richmond area youngsters enjoyed the new equipment during a May 20 dedication ceremony for the Markiya Dickson Imagination Zone playground in Fonticello Park. The play area commemorates the life of Markiya who was 9 years-old when she was killed by gunfire that erupted in the park four years ago. Her parents, Ciara Dickson and Mark Whitfield Sr., are pleased with the playground, yet admit that their daughter’s death remains painful. “We’ll never get past it or get over it, so we’re living through it,” said her mother. “We’re learning how to cope with it.”](https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2023/05/25/Playground_2_r190x220.jpg?15134d8ecf80f15357c5f07aa65289834e904796)
Richmond area youngsters enjoyed the new equipment during a May 20 dedication ceremony for the Markiya Dickson Imagination Zone playground in Fonticello Park. The play …
Published on May 25, 2023
![Multiple construction projects are underway at the Virginia War Memorial Carillon in Richmond. In 2016, Elizabeth L. O’Leary of the Carillon Civic Association described the historic monument: Rising a lofty 240 feet in the heart of Richmond’s William Byrd Park stands the Virginia War Memorial Carillon — the Commonwealth’s official monument to the approximately 3,700 men and women from the state who died as a result of World War I. The Georgian-revival tower houses a massive musical instrument made up of 53 fixed bronze bells of varying sizes, still played today by a carillonneur who strikes a pedal keyboard just below the bell chamber. Dedicated on October 15, 1932 — 14 years after the end of the Great War — the Carillon opened amidst a swirl of patriotic fervor and controversy. Its original design, commissioned several years earlier by the Virginia General Assembly from celebrated Philadelphia architect Paul Cret, called for a sleek classicized temple. Shortly after ground breaking, a citizen’s committee waged a successful popular campaign to build a carillon instead. Building the more expensive “singing tower” — a brick encased steel frame that originally supported the heavy bells cast by John Taylor & Co. of Loughborough, England — required additional fundraising to achieve the final cost of $325,000.](https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2023/04/27/CITYSCAPE_CARILLON_SS_042223_003_r190x220.jpg?15134d8ecf80f15357c5f07aa65289834e904796)
Multiple construction projects are underway at the Virginia War Memorial Carillon in Richmond. In 2016, Elizabeth L. O’Leary of the Carillon Civic Association described the …
Published on April 27, 2023
![The Virginia Department of Transportation continues its bridge rehabilitation project at 1st Street over Interstate 95 in Jackson Ward. This section of 1st Street will see new sidewalks, travel lanes and shoulders. The department plans to rehabilitate five bridges over I-95 in Richmond. Structure replacements and minor substructure repairs will be done on bridges on North 1st Street, North 4th Street, North 5th Street, North 7th Street and the East Broad Street overpasses.](https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2023/04/06/Cityscape_VDOT_Bridge_Rehab_SS_031823_004_1_r190x220.jpg?15134d8ecf80f15357c5f07aa65289834e904796)
The Virginia Department of Transportation continues its bridge rehabilitation project at 1st Street over Interstate 95 in Jackson Ward. This section of 1st Street will …
Published on April 6, 2023
![“McLean,” an installation by Navine G. Dossos, is featured on the façade of the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. The installation is part of the exhibit “So it appears” opening on Feb. 24 at the ICA, 601 W Broad St. The vinyl pieces used in the work are adapted from a series of paintings. According to the ICA’s website, “McLean, ”commissioned for the ICA’s Belvidere Street façade, is an adaptation of the artist’s former work “No Such Organization (2018-2020),” a series of 100 gouache paintings of icons and symbols. Each painting is in response to a news article following the disappearance and heinous murder, in October 2018, of journalist Jamal Khashoggi who lived in Mclean in Northern Virginia. For more details, please visit https://icavcu.org/exhibitions/ mclean/](https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2023/03/16/CITYSCAPE_MCLEAN_SS_031123_001_r190x220.jpg?15134d8ecf80f15357c5f07aa65289834e904796)
“McLean,” an installation by Navine G. Dossos, is featured on the façade of the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. The installation is …
Published on March 16, 2023
![The RVA Trojans 10u football players representing Maggie Walker, celebrate their 6-0 win over the RVA Wildcats and Falcons, representing Armstrong in the Armstrong-Walker Legacy Classic Project football game.](https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2022/12/01/Armstrong_Walker_Classic_Winners_10U_r190x220.jpg?15134d8ecf80f15357c5f07aa65289834e904796)
The RVA Trojans 10u football players representing Maggie Walker, celebrate their 6-0 win over the RVA Wildcats and Falcons, representing Armstrong in the Armstrong-Walker Legacy …
Published on December 1, 2022
![Elliott Mosby is careful not to drop his pumpkin at Ginter Park United Methodist Church on West Laburnum Avenue in the city’s North Side. Elliott visited the church’s pumpkin patch with his mother, Danielle Heerchap, on Oct. 15.](https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2022/10/20/A1_Kid_SS_002_101522_r190x220.jpg?15134d8ecf80f15357c5f07aa65289834e904796)
Elliott Mosby is careful not to drop his pumpkin at Ginter Park United Methodist Church on West Laburnum Avenue in the city’s North Side. Elliott …
Published on October 20, 2022
![Broad winged hawk over North Side](https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2022/09/01/Editorial_Broad_Winged_North_Side_082022_SS_023Hawk_r190x220.jpg?15134d8ecf80f15357c5f07aa65289834e904796)
Broad winged hawk over North Side
Published on September 1, 2022
![Patience pays off for 5-year-old New Yorker Julian Graham, who got an up-close view of a vibrant butterfly while visiting the “Butterflies Live” exhibition with his family at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden last Saturday. The exhibit runs until Oct. 10.](https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2022/08/11/A1_Kid_Butterflies_Live_080622_002_r190x220.jpg?15134d8ecf80f15357c5f07aa65289834e904796)
Patience pays off for 5-year-old New Yorker Julian Graham, who got an up-close view of a vibrant butterfly while visiting the “Butterflies Live” exhibition with …
Published on August 11, 2022
![Year-old Deilani Bland-Murph holds on to the hands of her mother, Tyshell Bland, right, and that of a Richmond SPCA volunteer at last Saturday’s 20th Annual Dog Jog and 5k to benefit the pets in the care of the local SPCA. People and their pets came from all over the region to participate in
the event held at the SPCA, 2519 Hermitage Road near The Diamond. The day was packed with games and activities for people of all ages. Deilani’s mom and the volunteer helped her on the “Little Paws” Fund Run for the youngest of all. The day kicked off with a 5K run/walk for people, followed by a leisurely mile-long Dog Jog for people and their dogs.](https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2022/03/31/A1_Kid_SPCA_DOG_JOG_SS_032622_012_r190x220.jpg?15134d8ecf80f15357c5f07aa65289834e904796)
Year-old Deilani Bland-Murph holds on to the hands of her mother, Tyshell Bland, right, and that of a Richmond SPCA volunteer at last Saturday’s 20th …
Published on March 31, 2022
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