First Street Church nears groundbreaking

It’s been almost two years since Hollywood director and UVA grad Tom Shadyac purchased the 1839 church that sits on the corner of First and Market streets with the intention of developing a day shelter for area homeless. “It was really neat to see how the town had grown, how the Downtown corridor had come […]

MCP opponents demonstrate at McIntire Park

Just a couple of weeks after The Coalition to Preserve McIntire Park, a group led by John Cruickshank of the Sierra Club and Bob Fenwick of SaveMcIntire.com, filed a preliminary injunction to stop construction on the Meadowcreek Parkway, a crowd of about 30 people gathered on the hills south of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial at the 250 Bypass/McIntire Road intersection.