A man was wounded in the leg when shots were fired from a burgundy car at Accommodation and Gay Streets in an incident that may be linked to a shooting on Southside earlier in the evening. [via]

After a seeming reprieve, the house at 1120 North 22nd was demolished yesterday.

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I’ve heard recently that 1) there have a been a rash of day-time burglaries around the 1000 block of 22nd Street (quickly in and out, through the back door), 2) that there have been recent rezoning requests for some of the light-industrial areas between 17th and 18th at Clay Street (to allow for commercial and residential use [aka apartments and condos]), and 3) that Ellwood-Thompson’s has bought the old Chimbo Mart.

The Feb.2006 Church Hill Newsletter, the monthly newsletter published by the Church Hill Association, is now out at all of the usual spots.

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I picked up Paul Clemens’ Made in Detroit and Mary Wingfield Scott’s Houses of Old Richmond at the library on 25th street yesterday. I’d heard an interview with Clemens on NPR a while back and his story of growing up in Detroit during the demographic and economic changes of the 1970s and 1980s is interesting. Scott’s book is beautiful, but not as beautiful and weird as her Old Richmond Neighborhoods.

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The RTD’s Street Beat looks into the ‘No Parking Here to Corner’ signs at Broad and 27th Streets.

A show of new paintings by Jamie Pocklington at Eric Schindler Gallery opens this coming Friday at 7pm.

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An armed suspect was shot last night and later apprehended by Richmond Police officers who foiled an attempted robbery of the Family Dollar store in the 1800 block of Creighton Road. [via]

The Union Hill Civic Association will hold a ‘Neighborhood Meeting’ at 2108 East Leigh Street this Sunday (Feb.12) from 4:00-5:30 p.m. Some of the topics to be discussed include: association organization, streets and sidewalks, trees, and crime &safety. RSVP to wholly_mary@hotmail.com or 649.3764

As a follow-up to Fight This Corner Store and 1,000,000 bottle bags: the store in question has been offered a license despite the neighborhood protest.

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The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay is offering a 2-day workshop on Community Greening Efforts (community gardening, urban
forestry, etc.) on March 17-18th at St. John’s Church (flyer .pdf). In other news, Tricycle Gardens announced The First Tricycle Gardens Annual Silent Auction &
Dinner Fundraiser Dance Party for March 11th (flyer .pdf).

The RPD’s Crime Prevention Academy is a free nine-hour program that covers a wide range of law enforcement topics, with an emphasis on crime prevention and the many police resources that are available to the public. The next 3-session program meets March 9th, 14th, and 16th with a deadline to apply of March 1. Contact Officer Cynthia Weaver at 804-646-6754 for more information or to sign up.

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A reader asks: “I live over at 25th and Franklin, I was wondering if you guys knew why it smells of sewage here every 2 weeks. Like this morning it really stinks of sewage again and it kind of thickly hangs in the air throughout the morning and afternoon. Has anyone ever mentioned this before?”

Isaac Millington, of North 31st Street, has been arrested and charged with the February 7th BB&T bank robbery in Mechanicsville. [via]

This Thursday marks the celebration and opening rally of “Metropolitan Richmond at Prayer,” an areawide union of souls that has been more than a year in the making. The 10 a.m. ceremony will be staged at Richmond Hill.

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