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From the RPD noteworthy incident report: AGGRAVATED ASSAULT (SHOOTING), 9/6/10, 9:04 p.m., 3000 block of Barton Avenue. A male reported he was shot by an unknown suspect. The victim’s injury is not life threatening. This happened a dozen a couple or so blocks down from last week’s tripple shooing on Montrose Ave. I’ve been trying [...]

Found this via RVAfoodie’s twitter: For meat+taters vegetarians: RT @IpanemaVeg: Mark your calendars. Chop Suey Books. Sept.18th. Guest food writer! http://www.kimodonnel.com/ Kim O’Donnell is author of the “The Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook” which hits bookstores September 14th. Here’s the author speaking about her new book:

Interested in doing something to help a neighborhood school get off to a good start? DonorsChoose is an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help students in need. Here’s how it works: public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Requests range from pencils for a [...]

The playground at Fairfield Elementary School was burned today at just after 5PM. More on this as it comes in… The playground at near-by George Mason Elementary School was burned on June 2, 2009. The cost of replacement of the playground was generously picked up by W.E. Singleton.

VCU communique: A full test of the VCU emergency communications system will be conducted Wednesday, Sept. 8 at noon. Full tests of the VCU emergency communications system are conducted twice a year, near the beginning of each semester. These are different from the monthly checks of the siren system that are conducted at noon on [...]

Puch Moped Stock 2HP E50 – $700 (Church Hill) 700 OBO….Bone Stock Puch Moped…all original …runs great i ride it to work everyday….it does 30mph but easy to make fast……you dont need to do anything to this thing just gas 2storke oil and go go go go….call Bryan 804-325-0921 Tomos Moped Kitted – $700 (Church [...]

Chanterell’s Pizza is coming to 1124 Hull Street. No word on how close they are to being open, though they did apply for an ABC license (wine/beer/mixed ON) on 7/19/2010.

The Flying Brick put up a nice introduction on Craigslist for those who have not heard of it: For those of you who don’t know, The Flying Brick Library is a radical lending library in Oregon Hill. We run out of the front room of a house at 506 S Pine Street, and have been [...]

Contact Amy at amy.nichols.belo@gmail.com or (804)267-0363 if this is yours: We found a camera on the corner of 31st and Marshall. It’s pretty beat up, but the owner might want the memory card. It looks like the owner recently went to Sesame Street Live.

Lt.Martin Harrison’s Sector 113 June report (PDF) for all points north of Carrington and Nine Mile is now available and includes both year-to-date comparisons for 2009-10 and August 2010 info: WEAPON RECOVERY- 1400 Block of Coalter St, at 2130 hrs: Officers Jinks and Robinson responded to a narcotics call. Upon the officers’ arrival, juveniles began [...]