Van Halen concert postponed [February 22]
There will be no “Runnin’ With The Devil” or getting “Hot For Teacher” tonight.
Passes pay off for UVA women’s basketball player [February 22]
During Thursday night’s 83-71 win against Clemson, UVA women’s basketball player Sharneé Zoll broke the ACC record for all-time assists.
One of their own [February 21]
NBC29 reports that criminal and internal police investigations have been launched against a longtime Albemarle County police officer, Jeffrey Turner, in a case that began with a February 10 9-1-1 domestic violence call from his house in Crozet.
What am I doing wrong? [February 20]
Today’s Daily Progress brings our attention to the fact that one Artis Wayne Keyton, Jr. was arrested Tuesday on charges of arson and vandalism, after allegedly trying to set fire to the house on Bolling Avenue where the 31-year-old man lives with his mother.
We Ate Here
With the Middle East being high on the list of dangerous places to travel these days, we have to rely on imports. When it comes to the cuisine of that sandy land, we have found a reliable stand-in with chef Haim Ohayon’s lunchtime falafel sandwich at Kiki’s. Light, and tenderly deep fried, these garbanzo bean […]
Your tax dollars, at work
Worked for city for: 1.5 years Resides in: Buckingham County. “I am willing to travel so far because I really do love my job.”Job title: Customer service supervisor. She’s been in the position since May. “I oversee the girls, help them with any difficult customers that we have,” says TenEyck. Before coming up to the […]
The hidden life of UVA
Danny Oberski Year: Junior Age: 22 Major: Economics and psychology Hometown: Ashland, Virginia What’s in your backpack? Detroit Tigers baseball hat, Richard Thaler’s The Winner’s Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life, Andrei Shleifer’s Noise Trader Risk, eight-day old copy of The Cav Daily, three notebooks, 2008 day planner with only two entries, empty pack […]
Lawsuit of the week
Plaintiff: Kathleen E. Burg Defendant: CVS of Virginia, Inc. What’s at issue: Whether the drugstore on Long Street is responsible for Burg falling and injuring herself. According to her complaint, she went to CVS to pick up some photos and, when she turned to leave, caught her foot on “something protruding from under the counter.” […]
Projects in the works
The skinny: The Board of Supervisors approved special-use permits to allow for two Verizon Wireless towers, one on Carter Mountain, and the other off I-64 and Dick Woods Road near Ivy. The county Planning Commission looked at a third tower, destined for 29N, at their February 12 meeting.Next step: Build the durn things. The third […]
Follow-up
Martha Jefferson Hospital We reported a couple of weeks ago on the updates to the plans for redeveloping the Martha Jefferson Hospital site on the corner of Locust Avenue and High Street, which still lacks a developer and needs to be sold to finance the new facility at Pantops. In a January 31 meeting with […]