What's New in Larchmont-Edgewater

YouTube Videos about Larchmont

Two new YouTube videos are available:

1. About the new Eco-Education Garden growing behind Larchmont Elementary -- Watch the video
2. About a wetlands area near Larchmont Elementary School that is being restored -- Watch the video

ODU to Host
Night for Neighbors

Old Dominion University's Police Crime Prevention Unit is sponsoring a gathering for the National Night Out on August 3. This is when communities around the United States and Canada gather to learn how to prevent crime in their neighborhoods. Larchmont/Edgewater residents are invited to a party at the new Lambert's Point Community Center at 1251 W. 42nd Street adjacent to ODU.

Drop in between 5 and 8 p.m. on August 3 to meet your neighbors and ODU officials and to learn safety tips. Free food, beverages and entertainment for all ages will be provided. For details call 683-6528. 

Work Started in Flood Plain

Detour signs are up and Contractors are gearing up to raise the streets about 16 inches in the Myrtle Park/Surrey Crescent/Richmond Crescent area. This is a site near Hampton Boulevard with chronic tidal flooding. The nearly $500,000 project is being handled by the City of Norfolk's Environment Storm Water Management Division of the Public Works Department

The goal is to help residents in that area get in and out of their driveways during moderate floods. The project should be completed by the fall of 2011. If you have questions call John White at 823-4000 or email him at stormwtr@norfolk.gov.

Scouts Save Fallen Tree

Boy Scouts from Troop 24 have saved a 15-foot cedar tree in Birdsong Wetlands adjacent to the Larchmont Library. The tree was knocked over by last November's nor'easter. Neighbors had tried several times to pull it upright but  failed. On June 19 the Boy Scouts with their leader Chris Melhuish repositioned the tree and used ropes to secure it. The next day a song bird was spotted singing in the top branches. 

Watching the Boy Scouts save the tree "made my day," said Merrie Jo Milner, a volunteer at the Birdsong Wetlands. "So many of us have grieved over this fallen tree, and it was such a gift to see."  

Patty Edwards, who walks daily through the Birdsong Wetlands, noted: "The tree adds shade and habitat at the water's edger.  It is great to know that the Scouts care about nature and our community." 

Troop 24 meets at Larchmont United Methodist Church. It was chartered in 1917 and is the oldest troop in the Tidewater Council of the Boy Scouts of America. It has produced more than 115 Eagle Scouts.

Taste Unlimited
Opening Soon

Constractors or transforming the old Bazemore's market on Hampton Boulevard into the headquarters for Taste Unlimited. The neighborhood new business should open before fall. Taste Unlimited will feature a gourmet shop, cafe and wine and coffee bar. It will also house a catering kitchen and will replace the Taste Unlimited on Colley Avenue in Ghent.