News about Eastern Henrico County, Virginia, including the East Highland Park, Elko, Highland Springs, Montrose, Rocketts Landing, Sandston, Varina and White Oak areas.
Keep Henrico Beautiful, along with the Henrico County Division of Recreation and Parks, Dorey Park Farmers Market and Plant RVA Natives, will host the 2025 Plant Native! Festival from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18 at Dorey Park, 2999 Darbytown Road in Varina. The Plant Native!
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The Greater Richmond Transit Company Oct. 17 is ending Route 56, which provides bus service along a corridor between downtown Richmond and Richmond International Airport in Sandston. The route also serves the White Oak Village shopping center in Eastern Henrico. The change will take effect several months after GRTC expanded
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On Oct. 14 at 6 p.m., the Henrico Board of Supervisors will hear 10 rezoning cases and provisional use permit applications that would allow 315 new single-family homes, townhouses, and apartment units to be built in the county. A PUP case that involved a proposed data center off of
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Local developer Wagner Urban Logistics has withdrawn its proposal to construct a one-million square-foot data center off Darbytown Road in Varina, according to an Oct. 13 announcement by Varina supervisor Tyrone Nelson. The developer’s application for a provisional use permit was set to be considered by the Henrico Board
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A total of 89 Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flights have flown out of Richmond International Airport so far this year – an 81% increase from 2024, when the total for the entire year was 50. Those statistics are according to the latest report from the Human Rights First ICE Flight
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