City To Resurface Idlewood

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From press release:

WHO: City of Richmond Department of Public Works

WHAT: Street resurfacing project

WHEN: Tuesday, May 26 through Wednesday, June 24

WHERE:
Grove Avenue between Three Chopt Road and the Downtown Expressway
Leigh Street between DMV Drive and Belvidere Street
Leigh Street between Jefferson Avenue and Chimborazo Boulevard
Idlewood Avenue between Boulevard and Robinson Street
Idlewood Avenue between Harrison Street and Belvidere Street
Thompson Street between Cary Street and Monument Avenue

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this project is to improve and maintain the City of Richmond’s transportation system. Crews will construct wheelchair ramps and mill and pave various areas throughout the City. Proper street maintenance not only provides safe roadways for citizens, but it also helps to avoid greater reconstruction costs in the future. Traffic will be maintained while these projects are in progress.

From refuse collection to pothole reports, Customer Care Center representatives are available at 3-1-1 to assist citizens with all of their Public Works needs. For more information on the City of Richmond, visit www.RichmondGov.com .

Once An Oregon Hill Resident: Ida Mae Thompson

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I have mentioned Oregon Hill’s activist history before, but then I was tipped off about this online entry:

Ida Mae Thompson (1866–1947)

Ida Mae Thompson was an important figure in Virginia’s woman suffrage movement, not for her political work but for her recordkeeping. First as a member of the Equal Suffrage League, the organization that led the effort to win women the right to vote, and then as a member of the League of Women Voters, Thompson collected and preserved the movement’s history.

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Thompson and her English-born mother moved to Richmond in 1886 to live with Thompson’s brother, Otis, a telegraph operator. The family lived in a rented frame house in the working-class neighborhood of Oregon Hill, on South Cherry Street near Hollywood Cemetery, just down the street from the first free circulating library in Richmond.

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(Go to top link for full entry)

Assault on Tredegar Street

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I have a report of an aggravated assault on the 400 block of Tredegar Street that took place about 6:30 yesterday. One male attacking another. No other info yet. Technically this did not happen in Oregon Hill, but close by, below the Virignia War Memorial.

Hopefully, crime reporting will be a topic of conversation when the new sector police leader, Lt. Baltz, meets with the Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association this coming Tuesday night.

Cox’s Op Ed On Stadium Proposal in Style

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Oregon Hill resident Caroline Cox has written a back page opinion piece for Style magazine, entitled “Missing the Bag“. Its about the opportunity costs of taxpayer money.

“Most of the ongoing debate about the proposed $318 million ballpark-anchored development in Shockoe Bottom has centered on the best place to put a new baseball stadium. But it’s not about the ballpark. It’s about opportunity cost. It’s about resource management, public goods and democracy.”

New Sector Lt.

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Effective this past Saturday, May 16th, I was reassigned within 4th Precinct to the Executive Officer’s position. Lieutenant Yvonne Baltz will be taking over Sector 413.

I wanted to take a minute to thank each one of you for your assistance and continued support over the past couple of years. I have very much enjoyed working with all of you to fight crime in Sector 413! Lt. Baltz has over 25 years of experience and has worked in 4th Precinct before so she is well aware of the issues we face. She will do a great job! She can be contacted at Yvonne.Baltz@richmond.gov or at 646-4105.

Thanks again for all that you do!

Lisa Drew

Jewell Bemoans Budget Woes for Parks & Rec

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In a recent Times Dispatch article on the City budget negotiations, 5th District Councilperson Marty Jewell expressed concern about cut funding for the City’s Parks & Recreation Department.

Councilman E. Martin Jewell said he’s frustrated that the council didn’t do more to support parks and recreation. Jones’ proposed budget calls for eliminating 29 vacant full-time positions, and Jewell said most are assigned to recreation programs.

“At a time when we’re approaching summer, we’re cutting . . . positions. Give me a break,” he said.