Casteen to raise community college funds

UVA President John Casteen has been highly successful in raising money for the University. Last September, despite the struggling economy, UVA raised $2 billion and it’s now in the home stretch to reach its goal for its $3 billion capital campaign. Evidently, Casteen really likes fundraising. In fact, sometime in September, just one month after […]

City Council considers noise ordinance change

At its first meeting of 2010 on January 4, City Council considered an amendment to the city’s noise ordinance that would decrease the allowable levels in commercial Belmont from 75 decibels to 55 after 11pm. Last summer, Belmont residents voiced concerns about possibly adding more noise, among other things, to an already noisy corridor when […]