More features: Trouble in paradiseControversy grows over Horse & Buggy Produce Your dinner starts nowLocal food is sprouting, and spring’s the time to buy in Appalachia Star Farm163 Shaeffers Hollow Ln.Roseland, VA 22967appalachiastar.com(434) 277-9304; dial area code Kathryn and Michael Bertoni’s small Nelson County farm has 2-3 acres in production and uses no pesticides or […]
Crews tore down the back section of the former Boxer Learning center last week, making way for the nine-story boutique hotel that’s on its way to the Downtown Mall. C-VILLE welcomes news tips from readers. Send them to news@c-ville.com.
Camila Lima Year: Senior, exchange student Age: 21 Hometown: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Major: Systems engineering What’s in your backpack? Notebook, pencil case, makeup case, glasses, an article entitled “Consumer Lending and Retail Credit,” wallet, keys, passport, a ziplock bag, two pens and a pencil, calculator, brochure from Universal Orlando, cell phone and charger, half-eaten […]
Plaintiff: Michele JohnsonDefendants: Jo-Ann Fabrics & Crafts Court: U.S. District Court What’s at issue: Whether the store in Rio Hill Shopping Center is responsible for a holiday display that poked plaintiff’s son in the eye. On May 18, 2006, Johnson and her son Andrew entered the fabric store to see “two large displays containing brightly […]
Susanne Kogut Worked for the local SPCA* for: 3 yearsResides in: Ruckersville Job Title: Executive director of the Charlottesville Albemarle SPCA. Kogut is responsible for directing her staff, financial matters, public relations, and working on legislation for animals. Best of times: “When I first started, we were euthanizing over 40 percent of the animals. Now […]
C-VILLE has been following the Hope Community Center’s zoning dispute with the city over operating a homeless shelter on 11th Street NW, but if the Board of Zoning Appeals doesn’t rule in Hope’s favor at an April 17 hearing, at least two men will have jobs to fall back on. According to Hope’s Josh Bare, […]
That’s a lot of bull: The John Paul Jones Arena was transformed into a Western ranch last Saturday night for the Professional Bull Riders Charlottesville Invitational, part of the national Enterprise Rent-A-Car Tour. Forty riders matched up with bulls that weigh up to 2,000 pounds. Tuesday 3/25 GOP firms up ’09 ticket State Attorney General […]
The Albemarle Commonweath's Attorney's office has filed five more felony charges against Slade Allen Woodson stemming from the I-64 shootings that took place in the early hours of March 27.
Today brings a press release from the UVA Police that we can only imagine the brass in the athletics office dearly wishes was an April Fool’s joke. J’Courtney Williams, a noted redshirt freshman linebacker for Virginia, has been charged with credit card theft and credit card fraud, along with one other student, Lester Guy Spellman III.
What did we learn from the 33rd annual Charlottesville Ten Miler? That runners from outside the area are gunning for our local pavement pounders! A record 2,525 runners took off at the start of the race on a chilly, 50-degree morning; the first finisher, 24-year-old Charlie Hurt of Scottsville, crossed the line 51 minutes later. […]