Archive for June 28th, 2009

28
Jun

Save Buckroe Beach

By mikeb 2 Comments
Categories: Current Affairs

While we were enjoying the block party last night we were approached by a very nice lady from SaveBuckroe.com. The city of Hampton owns the land surrounding Buckroe Beach, it is public land, and recently the Hampton City Council voted to rezone the land surrounding the beach so that it would be made available to public developers. Save Buckroe feels that such development would be detrimental to public access to the beach and have filed a petition to overturn the Council’s decision. They have until July 10 to gather 4500 signatures. If they are successful the ordinance would be suspended and subjected to a public referendum during the next general election.

Save Buckroe are looking for Hampton residents who are registered voters to sign the petition and stop the public Buckroe Bayfront park from being turned over to developers. They are also looking for volunteers to help gather signatures. Help us support them by spreading the word and encouraging others to sign the petition so that this beautiful area can be saved for public use.

28
Jun

Vids from Hampton Block Party

By mikeb 0 Comments
Categories: Hot Media and Local Arts

Yesterday was the first time we’d been to the Hampton Block Party all year. We started off the evening with dinner at Taphouse and then capped some vids of Dixie Power Trio. And yes, there were four of them on stage.

Later in the night we moved into Marker to beat the crowd and the cover. Out on the deck was Snackbar Jones.

Note I do not have steady camera hands when I’m drunk.

We’ll be heading out later today to the Ocean View Pier to catch blues guitarist John Baldwin. We will have video up of him later tonight or tomorrow.