Chad Mizelle Age: 19 Year: Freshman Hometown: Newport News Major: Undeclared What’s in your backpack? Laptop, iPod, empty Mountain Dew bottle, notebook, pens, pencils, Kashi TLC Chewy Granola Bar, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life.
Poking around the elegant new foyer of TJ’s house—the visitor center, that is, which recently opened—we got some education, browsed some souvenirs, and topped off the afternoon with a hot coffee and a chocolate chip peanut butter bar from the cafe, which is run by your buddies at Brix. They’re still doing their gourmet thing […]
Evans Finger Age: 19 Year: Sophomore Hometown: Houston, Texas Major: System engineering What’s in your backpack? Headphones, laptop, laptop charger, pencils, planner, calculator, graphing calculator, econ class ticker, various textbooks: Economics; Physics for Engineers and Scientists; Probability and Stochastic Processes: A Friendly Introduction for Electrical and Computer Engineers. C-VILLE welcomes news tips from readers. Send […]
Norcross Station, the railroad warehouse turned chic apartment complex, is prepping to add a third building. R.E. Lee & Sons have been clearing the strip of land between Garrett Street and the Norcross Station parking lot since the end of November. Rick Jones, of R.E. Lee, says they have begun pouring concrete, and estimates that […]
Job title: Training and accreditation supervisor for the Emergency Communications Center. Wade trains the folks who handle all of our emergencies, and keeps our area on the cutting edge. Worked for the county for: 24 years Resides in: Fluvanna County Best of times: Receiving national accreditation. “I spent two-and-a-half years working to have our department […]
Due to a reporting error, in the November 25, 2008 “Your tax dollars, at work” [Government News], it was stated that Sarah Temple works for the city. She, in fact, works for the county.
In a hurry at breakfast, and not wanting to spend a fortune, we finally clued in to the fact that every Downtown worker and her mother lines up to buy $1 pastries from Blue Ridge Country Store. Hello! At that price, our apple scone suddenly seemed to need an accompaniment, and we found a worthy […]
Due to a proofreading error, in “Partners split over Landmark Hotel” [Development News, November 18], the phrase, “The crane was still in full swing on Monday, September 17” is off by two months. It should have read, “Monday, November 17.”
The area got its swankiest conference space last week as UVA President John Casteen cut the ribbon on the “Pavilion,” a $10 million, 9,000-square-foot event space, at the Boar’s Head Inn, which is owned by the University’s real estate wing. Hordes of local businessmen descended on the space the day after for the local […]
How to balance the Charlottesville city budget in the bitter year ahead? Why not get new ideas on the table? C-VILLE convened an expert panel of drunks, disbarred attorneys and talking parrots to devise creative solutions to fill city coffers. Eliminate need for fire department by banning fires. City savings: $8.7 million Convert Free Speech […]