Volunteers Needed This Weekend to Help with VaHi Triangle Planting
Grab your garden gloves and a water bottle and come join your neighbors for some fall planting this weekend at the VaHi triangle park at the corner of Virginia and N. Highland avenues (in front of Taco Mac and Murphy’s). The group will be planting some colorful fall annuals Sunday, October 7th starting at 1…
Sidewalk Committee Report
By: Peggy Berg, Traffic/Transportation and Sidewalks Chair With repair work set to begin soon on the neighborhood’s first identified sidewalk bundle, the Sidewalk Committee is looking for more sections of VaHi sidewalk in need of repair. If there’s a section of sidewalk in the neighborhood you’d like to see fixed, email the location information…
Morningside Mile Race & Block Party
Morningside Mile Race & Block Party benefiting the Restoration of Historic Virginia Highland Fire Station 19 is Sunday, Oct. 14 Noon – 2pm. Get all the details at morningsidemile.com
Phone Numbers to Report Music Midtown Problems Announced
The PARKatlanta phone numbers for reporting parking/traffic problems related to the Music Midtown festival are 404-201-5086 and 404-201-5396. The phone number for Whitten Management for reporting trash/litter problems is 770-655-7281. Whitten will have crews out all weekend picking up trash/litter and emptying trash cans – but if there are still problems on Monday morning this…
News (and movies) from VHCA Annual Meeting and 40th Anniversary Celebration
The Board of Directors for the 2012 (October) through 2013 (September) period has been elected. Minutes of the meeting are forthcoming; however you can watch videos of the meeting, including the many special events such as: SPARK choir performing (watch video) Joe Drolet‘s educational address about the formation of the VHCA to fight construction of…
Photo Essay: New Highland Park Construction
After nearly four years of fund-raising, designing, permit applications and contractor selection, construction began in mid-September on the new park at N. Highland Ave. and St. Charles Place. Read more about plans for the new park here. For those not able to stop by and see the progress as its made, we thought we’d publish…
TLC Reality Show Looking for Unique Atlanta Area Homes
Are you crazy about your beautiful, amazing, and unique home? Think you have the coolest house on the block? Is it cool enough to win a $10,000 grand prize??? If you’d like the chance to show your home off to the world and possibly have it featured in a national magazine, the folks at Pitman…
Mark Your Calendars Now for the 18th Annual Virginia-Highland Tour of Homes
News Release Contact: Sally Clark 404-805-6363 PR Committee Co-Chair, Virginia-Highland Tour of Homes 18th Annual Virginia-Highland Tour of Homes December 8th and December 9th 2012 Mark your calendars now for the 18th Annual 2012 Virginia-Highland Tour of Homes! Get in the holiday spirit with friends and family as you tour one of Atlanta’s most charming…
A Rich History – Video
Here is the new video based upon the book “Images of America: Virginia-Highland” by Karri Hobson-Pape and Lola Carlisle (http://bit.ly/RX6kRb). It was first shown at the 40th anniversary celebration (2012 annual meeting) of the VHCA. You can watch it full-screen by clicking the square icon in the bottom right of the video. You can also…
Music Midtown – 10th Ave. closed Monroe to Chas. Allen Sept. 21-22
More information at the Music Midtown site.
Official opening, BeltLine Eastside Trail
Please see the BeltLine blog for more information.
Voice Issues Archive
The VHCA published a quarterly print edition of the Virginia-Highland Voice until May 2012. You may choose from the summary table of available PDFs below, or further down, you may browse the tables of contents for all available past issues. Summary table of PDF files For 1995 and previous, Winter editions were published at the…
VHCA Board Elections
VHCA Board Elections To be held at the VHCA Annual Meeting – September 13th – Inman Middle School Cafeteria – 6:30 – 9:00PM The nominating committee of the Virginia-Highland Civic Association presents the following list of candidates, all of whom have declared their candidacy: John Becker Peggy Berg Lola Carlisle Arturo Cruz-Tucker Lauren Wilkes Fralick…
Streets Alive! Virginia, N. Highland closed to traffic
From Atlanta Streets Alive! this information: On Sunday October 7th, 2012, Atlanta Streets Alive will return to North Highland Avenue for four hours — from 2pm-6pm. Two miles of North Highland plus one mile of Virginia Avenue plus just about two miles of the brand new Atlanta BeltLine Eastside Trail means we will have almost…
Crime Reports
APD’s August Report APD has a good recap of some good things that have happened at http://www.atlantapd.org/files/GreatestHitsAugust.pdf Especially note our own Deputy Chief Propes’ report about our Smart 911 System. Please sign up if you have not yet done so. VaHi was mentioned in this report with the Creative Loafing story about the capture of…
VHCA Annual Meeting and Elections and VHCA 40th Anniversary Celebration
The Virginia-Highland Civic Association will hold its Annual Meeting and Election at the Inman Middle School Cafeteria on September 13 from 6:30 – 9:00PM. The Virginia-Highland Civic Association will hold its Annual Meeting and Election at the Inman Middle School Cafeteria on September 13 from 6:30 – 9:00PM. This year marks the 40th Anniversary of…
2012-3 Board Bios
Below are the bios of the candidates elected to the 2012-2013 Board of Directors of the VHCA. The Board was elected by residents on September 13, 2012 at the VHCA Annual Meeting. Following are the bios that they submitted prior to their election. John Becker I own a home on Rosedale Road where I’ve lived…
Virginia-Highland’s Littlest Library
If your morning/evening walk has taken you down Hudson Drive recently, you’ve probably noticed the house with a small white box planted in the front yard filled with books. Voice contributor John Becker noticed the box – labeled “The Little Public Library on Hudson” – a few weeks ago while walking his dog and posted…
Volunteers Fight Graffiti on Maiden Lane
By Laura Voisinet, VaHi Graffiti Task Force – graffiti@vahi.org Friday afternoon when most of us were gearing up for the Labor Day holiday, a small but mighty group of neighbors came together to clean up an eyesore along Maiden Lane. Led by St Charles Ave. west end Street Captain Mike Boyle, and joined by Safety…
Creative Loafing reports: “Residents and cops work together to catch Va-Hi burglar”
See the story at Creative Loafing
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