NBC12 is reporting that the police are looking for a suspect in a non-fatal shooting at about 11PM last night in the 1100 block of Jennie Scher Road.

Until recently, Richmind Then and Now’s archive of Times-Dispatch articles has been my only source of info on old Fulton. Add Scott Davis’ 1988 The World of Patience Gromes: Making and Unmaking a Black Community to the list of essential Richmond history reads.

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Craigslist has word on a lost set of keys:

i lost my keys a few weeks ago. sledding on powhatan hill/ powhatan park. would have been the weekend of feb. 7th. if anyone has any info please call 804 928 8478. thanks!!!

Krispies’ Fried Chicken on Williamsburg Road was inspected by the Health Department on February 18 and scored a perfect score, showing no violations. The have a history of doing well.

An S.B.Cox storage building at Hatcher and Williamsburg burned dramatically last night.

An email went out this morning from Preston Brown, the owner/operator of the southside radio station WCLM, urging folks to boycott The New Era Accounting & Tax Services on Williamsburg Road:

The Heart and Soul of the City Newspaper was called to The New Era Accounting & Tax services at 1631 Williamsburg Road next door to Krispy Fried Chicken on Feb 4, 2010.

A 17-year-old high school student went there to see how much it would cost to have her taxes done. She was told to leave her w-2 forms so they could check it out after two trips there she felt uncomfortable doing business with Oladipo H. Muritala. She asked for her w-2 forms back and was told she had to bring her mother to get her forms back.

When her mother came their , she was told they had to pay $120.00 or sue them to get her w-2 forms back. Complaints have been filed with the Board of Accountancy, The General Attorneys Office, and The Consumers Affairs Dept. and more are to be filed.

We can no longer let business come into our communities and mistreat our people and specially our kids.

We ask you not to do business with this company and inform your friends and family members also.

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Lieutenant Laino’s Sector 111 report for January (PDF) is available. Sector 111 encompasses Church Hill, Chimborazo, Church Hill North, Fulton, Oakwood, and Union Hill:

During the first month of the New Year, the Sector experienced a 20% decrease in Major Crime; a 43% decrease in violent crime (7 incidents reported in 2009 compared to 4 in 2010) and a 16% decrease in property crime (43 incidents reported in 2009 compared to 36 in 2010).

Craigslist has word on a little dog found at Randall Avenue and Newman Road:

We found a little dog outside of our house in Fulton Hill about 7pm tonight (Wednesday). If he’s yours, please email me with a description. He is super sweet and we’re sure he’s missed!

I was recently forwarded a link to Richmond Foreclosure Lists, “a website dedicated to helping people who are interested in buying up the foreclosed / bank owned property that is driving down property values.” If you go in and sort by price from lowest-highest, this house going for $29,900 at 2005 Williamsburg Road is one of the first to come up.

A dog was found yesterday off of Main and Williamsburg:

Scared and hungry pit shepherd mix intact. I took him to the Animal Shelter. He is very sweet and was pretty starved when I found him.I missed a turn and turned down a dead end street off of Main and Williamsburg road to get to Fulton Hill and found him trapped behind a fence in deserted industrial yard. He has a thin white stripe down long shep snout. Very Cute puppy maybe 7 month or so, very sweet, and red/tan/white markings.

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