Synthetic fields: unsafe at any speed?

The county Board of Supervisors couldn’t make a decision about the safety of synthetic turf at their December 3 meeting. The Board was asked to give $225,000 to aid the county schools’ replacement of natural grass on three high school stadium fields, but Board members were uneasy green lighting the project without concrete data on […]

Meadowcreek Parkway closer to reality?

The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) announced that nine companies have bid on the Albemarle portion of the contract. The lowest bidder appears to be Faulconer Construction in Charlottesville with $11,782,035.81. The bids ranged from $11.8 million to $17.2 million. The bids will be reviewed by VDOT and analyzed in accordance with the Engineer’s Estimate, and the process may take several days.