The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce has just released data from the first three quarters of 2008 for the region’s retail sales activity. Good news for Augusta, Greene, Louisa and Waynesboro. Bad news for Albemarle and Charlottesville.
The chant “drill, baby, drill†may soon be heard off the coast of the Commonwealth. The Washington Post reports that the Bush Administration is taking the next step in its efforts to lease waters off the coast of Virginia to companies that are interested in drilling oil and natural gas.
ABC News’ Jay Shaylor reports that Virginia Governor Tim Kaine won’t leave his post in the Commonwealth for a position in the Obama administration.
Only chirping birds disrupted the complete silence that reigned over Hereford College on a sunny morning while sleepy students hurried to class.
The University’s multibillion dollar investments, which include the University’s endowment, lost $600 million, or 11 percent, in the first quarter of the fiscal year, according to UVA’s Investment Management Company (UVIMCO) quarter-end report. By mid-October, the policy benchmark had declined by another 20 percent. According to the report, after the initial hit, the investment pool […]
Along with ACAC, Charlottesville’s Circuit City reigns supreme in the Albemarle Square shopping center. But the big red and white sign, visible from Route 29, will soon disappear. On November 3, Circuit City Stores, Inc., announced it will be closing 155 stores nationwide to combat a “continued weak macroeconomic environment.” Of the three stores that […]
Slade Allen Woodson, 19, has been sentenced to two years in jail in Waynesboro Circuit Court for six felony counts in connection with the I-64 shootings in March of this year, reports the News Virginian in Waynesboro.
Even if the final vote count for the Fifth District Congressional seat hasn’t been certified yet, Democratic candidate Tom Perriello is acting the part.
The American Historical Association has bestowed upon Melvyn P. Leffler of UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, the 2008 George Louis Beer Prize for outstanding historical writing in European international history since 1895 for his book, “For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War.”
On Election Day, everything went smoothly in Charlottesville. Except, that is, for two laptops belonging to the City Registrar that were stolen from the Tonsler Park voting precinct sometime between 9pm on election night and 8am the next morning.