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Iconic Bakery Closes, Owner Mum on Shockoe Ballpark 

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A 120-pound sailfish takes up a sizable chunk of the eastern wall at Weiman's Bakery in Shockoe Bottom. The fish, after all these years, finally is coming down. Weiman's, a Richmond institution since 1945, is closing. "We had no alternative but to…

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