Like many Henrico roads, Alycia Avenue in the Lakeside area was covered with a thick layer of ice for more than a week after the winter storm that hit the region in late January. (Tom Lappas/Henrico Citizen)
Since January, Henrico has planted 10,000 new native tree seedlings in public areas throughout the county.
The efforts have cost the county “little to nothing,” said Deputy County Manager Steve Yob, with Henrico using local volunteers and grants from the U.S. Department of Forestry. During the past three
Henrico voters overwhelmingly voted in favor of Virginia’s proposed congressional redistricting amendment, with nearly 64% of the more than 128,000 people who cast ballots in the county voting “yes.”
Henrico’s margin of support for the proposal – more than 35,000 votes – played a critical role in its