Ryan replacement will be Cal’s coach
After denying reports earlier in the week, Joanne Boyle has taken the job as UVA women’s basketball coach after all, according to multiple news outlets.
Picking season
For 17 years, the Charlottesville City Market has been held at the city-owned Water Street parking lot. But with 80 hopeful vendors currently on the waiting list for slots, the market’s site is bursting at its seams. The Charlottesville City Market task force wants to find a permanent site with double the space currently available […]
UVA’s Sandridge honored at lunch, pushed towards Senate by Sabato
UVA President Teresa Sullivan also announced the creation of the Leonard Sandridge Endowed Scholarship, to support children of UVA employees that show financial need
It’s official: Tim Kaine announces Senate bid
Just like his Republican opponent, former Senator George Allen, Kaine announced his candidacy in a video.
Virginia Tech fined $55,000 for slow response to 2007 shooting
Virginia Tech intends to appeal the fine
Martha Jefferson addresses merger concerns
In late September, Martha Jefferson Hospital (MJH) announced a merger with Sentara—a large, not-for-profit health care system based in Norfolk, Virginia. Sentara, which generated $1.7 billion in revenue in 2009, operates eight hospitals throughout the state and serves more than 2 million patients. Between a merger with a larger not-for-profit and an impending move to […]
A balance of power
In the weeks since a pair of natural disasters compromised nuclear reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant, locals looked to Louisa County’s North Anna Nuclear Power Plant, located 30 miles from Charlottesville, and asked whether a similar catastrophe could occur. Dominion Power spokesman Ric Zuercher says a nuclear power plant like North Anna (pictured), 30 […]
Wheels keep on turning
Want to make things easier for local bike commuters? You might have to get behind the Meadow Creek Parkway. At least on paper, the controversial, 40-plus-year Charlottesville-Albemarle connector is a biker’s dream: designated bike paths, pedestrian trails and lush, green scenery. For Caroline Laco, who commutes from her home behind Fashion Square Mall to Harris […]
UPDATE: UVA student that fell to his death entered locked building with group, slipped on icy roof
UVA students who enter locked buildings "do so illegally and at great risk to their personal safety," says UVA Police lieutenant
Charlottesville City Market kicks off this Saturday
Last year, the 100 or so vendors generated more than $1.4 million in sales, up from $1.2 million in 2009