Police calls
900 block of West Wayne Street, Lima Police responded Wednesday to a fight in progress.
200 block of East Kildare Avenue, Lima A breaking-and-entering incident was investigated Wednesday.
Latham Avenue at North Cable Road, Lima A traffic accident with property damage was investigated Wednesday.
900 block of Catalpa Avenue, Lima A dog bite incident was investigated Wednesday; the animal remained at large.
1400 block of Bellefontaine Avenue, Lima A theft was reported Wednesday night.
300 block of West Robb Avenue, Lima A theft was reported Wednesday night.
1200 block of Catalpa Avenue, Lima The theft of a motor vehicle was reported Wednesday night.
300 block of West North Street, Lima A theft was reported Wednesday night.
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Lively violin music played as dozens of shoppers strolled in the sunlight between two rows of tents, taking in the sights and smells of street food, soups, spices, sweet treats like doughnuts and baklava, and fresh produce.
On Wednesday, the Andersonville Farmers Market opened for its 12th season and its second year operating during the pandemic.
Kayla Taylor, an employee at First Slice Pie Cafe, said she is excited to be selling pastries now that conditions are less frightening.
“People feel safer outside, and everyone can come together and talk and feel good,” Taylor said.
Joan Oberndorf, the manager of Andersonville Farmers Market, said this year the city is allowing up to 135 customers to enter the market at one time, an increase of 40% from 2020’s capacity. Also, dogs are now allowed back in the market space and shoppers will able to touch the products they plan to purchase.
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Turning excess road asphalt into pedestrian space can be done fairly cheaply and quickly with paint and posts, as the Chicago Department of Transportation recently showed at a couple dozen downtown intersections. It’s an easy way to create sidewalk bump-outs to shorten pedestrian crossing distances, and widen the turning radii of intersections to discourage drivers from whipping around them at dangerous speeds. Pedestrian islands can also be created this way.
A new bump-out on the north leg of Washington/Wells. Photo: CDOT
Granted, the beige paint doesn’t have a lot of visual pizzaz. But Complete Streets interventions don’t have to be boring. There have already been few installations in Chicago that turned car space into people space that include interesting, artistic, or even political street paintings. For example, here are some colorful bumpouts CDOT recently installed in the Austin community as part of the Vision Zero West Side program