Home sales continue steady climb

The Central Virginia housing market continues to experience home sales growth, according to a Central Virginia Regional Multiple Listing Service report. The upward trend has exceeded six years. During the first quarter of this year, there were 3,813 home sales in the region – 4 percent higher than the same time last year. Sales and home prices are climbing at […]

Henrico Schools to host job fair May 16

Henrico County Public Schools will hold a job fair from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., May 16 at the Eastern Henrico Government Center, 3820 Nine Mile Road, to talk with candidates for a number of positions. Full-time and substitute positions are available. Openings include those for: • Bus drivers • School nutrition workers • School nurses (RN/LPN and substitutes) • […]

Henrico Schools names top teachers, leaders for 2018

Henrico Schools employs about 3,900 teachers, but only one is honored each year with the division’s Gilman Teacher of the Year Award. Nichole Gross, an eighth-grade teacher at Fairfield Middle School, earned that honor May 8 at a ceremony at Glen Allen High School. Amber Hornbarger, a fourth-grade teacher at Glen Lea Elementary School, was named HCPS’ First-Year Teacher of […]

Weekend Top 10

MAY 11 Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden will offer special activities for Mother’s Day weekend, May 11-13. The weekend kicks off May 11 with National Public Gardens Day – enjoy a drop-in tour of the historic Bloemendaal House from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. On Saturday and Sunday, there will be activities in the Children’s Garden including “make-and-takes” for mom (cards […]