From the City’s Current Traffic Information webpage:
SPRING ST/S LAUREL ST ACCIDENT, PROPERTY DAMAGE On Scene 8:14 AM 2 VEHS NO INJS…MAR NISSAN/DRK GRN TOYT…ATF/NUA…Duplicate Event:Location = S LAUREL ST/SPRING ST RICH, Cross Street 1 = S LAUREL
If I recall, the Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association has requested a four way stop for this intersection more than once. See Issue #10.
According to signs, the 195 on-ramp from Cumberland will be closed for a month starting tomorrow while there is more work on the toll plaza.
From WRIC Channel 8’s website:
Richmond, VA—The Downtown Expressway Cumberland Street on-ramp will be closed to traffic for thirty days beginning Monday, September 10.
The on-ramp will be closed through early October, for the final phase of the Downtown Expressway Open Road Tolling project.
Motorists wishing to enter the roadway in this area are encouraged to use a detour to the westbound Belvidere/2nd Street on-ramp.
From the flyer:
Richmond City Council Candidate Forum
This November, elections will decide who will represent you. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear where candidates stand on critical issues facing our communities such as health, equality, education, and urban planning.
September 13th 8:00 PM
VCU 500 Academic Center 500 N Harrison (former Ukrops)
moderator: Dr. Kim AllenSponsored By
L Douglas Wilder School of Governmentin partnership with
A Philip Randolph Institute – Richmond Alliance for Progressive Values -Coalition to Stop Gun – Violence – People of Faith for Equality – RePHRAME – Richmond NOW – Sierra Club Falls of the James – Southerner on New Ground S.O.N.G. – Unite Women-Va – Virginia Organizing – Virginia New Majority-Central Va Chapterfor more information: roland.winston@gmail.com
Note: All three Council candidates from the 5th District have indicated they will attend.
From James River Writers website:
Oregon Hill Program
Tuesday, September 11 at 7:00 PM: Howard Owen presents a program on his latest mystery Oregon Hill. At Bon Air Library, 9103 Rattlesnake Rd.
You can read some previous coverage of “Oregon Hill” by clicking here and here.
Also, Owen recently wrote a tribute to the James River Writers group.
Here is an excerpt:
The first few years, Karen and I hosted the pre-conference party for the presenters in our sixth-floor condominium in the Prestwould. We made a lot of the food ourselves, hired a bartender, and had a blast. We still think — this being Richmond — there should be a historical marker beside the door to unit 6B, noting that Tom Robbins, Richard Price, Mark Bowden and others drank there.
The Richmond writing community has thrived and grown more prolific, and we like to think JRW played some small part of that. We take pride that our city’s literary toilers were able to turn out the well-received Richmond Noir anthology, in a city much smaller than the others in that detective-noir series. We beam every time another Richmond writer gets published.
We live an hour away now, so I don’t get back for JRW events very often. But my heart is with you. It is one of my proudest achievements to have had a part in the founding of such a worthy and successful enterprise.
Richmond is a writers’ city, and JRW helped make it so. Who wouldn’t be proud of that?
From the City’s Current Traffic Information webpage:
LEE BRIDGE – SB TRAFFIC COMPLAINT, INVESTIGATE On Scene 4:07 PM DESK IN THE FAST LANE
Email message from Pine St. neighbor:
Her name is Audrey and she is about thirty lbs. Sweetheart. Give me a call at 804-380-3564 if you think you see her.
Community Movie Night
Friday, September 7 at 8:00 pm
Pleasants Park
Refreshments Served
From the Friends of James River Park FaceBook page:
The downtown Richmond Public Library Main branch, 2nd Floor Gallery, will exhibit a
collection of photographs of “Wild Things on the James” from September 7th,
First Friday, to October 2nd. Check it out when you check out a book!
Also on Saturday, the 8th, at the Main branch:
11:30am
Father and Son Basketball Craft
Come and make a inside basketball game to hook on the door. Ball included. Please call for reservations – 646-4768. Limited spaces. Great for ages 2-10.
The first graphic is a drawing that Venture Richmond sent today of the proposed damage to the Kanawha Canal for the proposed amphitheater. They propose slicing the south bank of the historic canal and infilling the canal to make a smooth slope. The Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association (OHNA) passed a resolution against damaging the canal.
The second map uses a 1877 Beers Atlas to identify the location of the proposed damage to the canal.
Click here and here for more on the controversies regarding the proposed development for this area.
Richmond.com reports that Pescados China Street is closing, but then reopening as EAT Oregon Hill.
Excerpt from the article:
Pescados chef/owner Todd Manley announced Tuesday that Pescados China Street is closing and reopening next week at EAT Oregon Hill (note: this is Oregon Hill only; Midlo stays as-in).
According to Manley, the new menu and concept is all about him and his culinary team (Chef Trevor Knotts and Sous Chef Sean McGee) having fun and being creative.
“I colloborated with the staff as a whole to come up with this concept,” Manley said. [It’s] going to knock the socks off of a Richmond and be a true Richmond eatery.”
He said being a “niche seafood restaurant” just wasn’t working for the neighborhood; he wanted to be able to accommodate more guests at all price points and for any occasion.
“We want to be the Richmond eatery … we want to be distincly Richmond.”