The Current: A pygmy hippo named Poppy

🦛 Poppy is the name of the Metro Richmond Zoo's baby pygmy hippo. (News release)

• The zoo received more than 116,000 votes from 165 countries in a poll to choose the name, and Poppy won with 52.8% of the vote.

🗳️ Colette McEachin, a Democrat who's been Richmond Commonwealth's Attorney since 2019, is seeking reelection. (Times-Dispatch)

🖼️ A judge declined to issue a temporary restraining order requested by Museum District residents that would block the VMFA from building an art storage facility on a parking lot it owns behind the museum. (The Richmonder)

🛒 Chesterfield is getting its first Whole Foods in the upcoming Midlothian Depot at Midlothian Turnpike and Alverser Drive. (BizSense)