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PHOTOS: Hundreds of volunteers join NASCAR drivers to beautify Virginia Home For Boys and Girls

April 24, 2018 Trevor Dickerson

Hundreds of volunteers, including local Comcast/NBCUniversal employees and their families, friends and NASCAR Xfinity Series drivers helped to make an impact as they cleaned and beautified the 30+ acres grounds of Virginia Home for Boys and Girls as part of the 17th annual Comcast Cares Day, which coincided with this past weekend’s NASCAR races.

Henrico schools’ “signing day” for students entering the workforce goes viral on social media

April 17, 2018 RVAHub Staff

A Facebook post about the first ever career signing day reached more than 4 million people and was reposted by “Dirty Jobs” host Mike Rowe, who called the concept “the way forward.”

PHOTOS: From doughnuts to dancing, “The Bachelorette” films in RVA hot spots

April 12, 2018 Capital News Service

The Bachelorette is in town and looking for love – and Richmonders love to look for her. Fans of “The Bachelorette” have been in a frenzy since photos of the hit reality show filming in Richmond surfaced on social media last weekend.

VMFA appoints new government relations director to advocate for museum’s interests, resources

April 11, 2018 RVAHub Staff

Katie Payne comes to the museum from Williams Mullen, where she has worked in government relations for the past decade.

VCU student-athletes lead campaign to stop sexual assault on campus

April 5, 2018 Capital News Service

Virginia Commonwealth University student-athletes collected more than 300 signatures Wednesday from students, faculty, and staff who pledged to do their part to stop sexual assault on campus.

Police on hunt for driver who intentionally rammed car into father biking with kids in Carillon neighborhood

April 4, 2018 Trevor Dickerson

Richmond Police say a driver in a blue Mustang intentionally side-swiped a father biking with his kids Monday night near Byrd Park, then turned around and struck him head-on before driving off.

Over 70,000 sign petitions protesting pipelines across Virginia

March 29, 2018 Capital News Service

Environmentalists on Tuesday dropped on Gov. Ralph Northam’s desk petitions signed by more than 70,000 people supporting stricter rules for the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast pipelines that energy companies plan to build across Virginia.

Henrico County Public Schools hires director to oversee equity and diversity efforts

March 27, 2018 RVAHub Staff

Monica Manns will be the first director of HCPS’ new Office of Equity and Diversity. Manns was introduced Thursday evening at the monthly meeting of the Henrico School Board.

Profile: Mayor Stoney sees Richmond as a city “ready to turn the page”

March 16, 2018 Capital News Service

Mayor Levar Stoney keeps a small ceramic turtle on his desk. “Good leaders stick their necks out in a time of crisis,” he said. Stoney, 36, has been sticking out his neck for years – as the first in his family to attend college, as the youngest member of Governor Terry McAuliffe’s administration and the first African-American to serve as secretary of the commonwealth, and now as mayor of Virginia’s capital.

In walkout over guns, Richmond area students say ‘enough’

March 15, 2018 Capital News Service

One month after the massacre that killed 17 students and staff at a Florida high school, Richmond-area students joined their peers across the country and walked out of their schools at 10 a.m. Wednesday to protest gun violence.

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