The Chesterfield Daily

A portion of Jahnke Road will be closed until approximately 6 p.m. today to repair a waterline break. The road will be closed between Bon View Drive and Brown Road. All traffic will be detoured around the work area.

Police are searching for a masked man who robbed the Waffle House at 2423 West Hundred Road at about 2:15 a.m. today. No one was injured during the incident.
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What are your plans for the weekend?? We actually have a pretty nice little Saturday, we’re going to go to Home Depot. Buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that. Maybe Bed, Bath, & Beyond, I don’t know, I don’t know if we’ll have enough time. Just kidding!! (Old School Movie Quote) (more…)

Way to go Peter!!

Midlothian resident Peter Zaino just returned from China — That’s right — China. Where Peter brought back 2 Gold Medals in swimming and a fourth place ribbon in the 50-meter freestyle event. Congratulations to Peter and the 7 other Athletes who make up Special Olympics Team Virginia. Read more about Peter and Team Virginia at Richmond.com

Apparently back in August a kid from the JV football team had a staph infection and now two new cases have popped up and they are now taking preventative measures to stop the spread. MRSA a drug-resistant staph that can spread quickly was the cause of death of a Bedford County high school student on Monday. (more…)

Noted from Hills and Heights about the Huguenot Bridge replacement project being moved up, I thought that I should add some additional details about the bridge (taken from the RTD article) that I thought were very interesting.

• 58 Years Old
• $50.6 million for a replacement
• 28,000 vehicles drive across the bridge daily
• The new bridge will be 27 feet wide - 12-foot-wide travel lanes, 10-foot-wide shoulders, 5-foot-wide sidewalk on each side.
• The project will be ready for contractors to bid on by January 2010 (wow - that’s a long ways away)
• The project will be completed in 2012

The Chesterfield Domestic Violence Task Force will sponsor a free mini-training Oct. 22, 3-4:30 p.m., at the Chesterfield County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court Building, 7000 Lucy Corr Blvd. The mini-training is entitled, “Stalking and Domestic Violence,” (more…)

CJW is starting their 29.6 billion dollar cancer hospital project tomorrow. This 51,000 sq/ft hospital is set to finish in 2009 and help in treating 2000 patients a year. (Referenced RTD)

From the RTD:

The Chesterfield County Planning Commission last night obliged about 15 residents who spoke out against new road impact fees, voting unanimously not to recommend adoption of the fees.