Winning and losing [December 8]
The sports programs at Albemarle County Schools are vacillating between triumph and grief as they come to terms with a big win and a major loss.
Council, don't preach [December 9]
Anyone reading The Washington Post Magazine got a detailed history of Rutherford Institute…
Other News We Heard Last Week
Tuesday, December 4Yankees play Hokies The New York Yankees will play an exhibition game at Virginia Tech on March 18, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. As part of their spring training, they will take on the Hokies at 3pm in English Field. "Since the tragedy of last April 16, the Virginia Tech family has shown great […]
Squirrel shuts down Charlottesville [December 11]
Charlottesville, we have a squirrel problem. In addition to absconding with all our nuts and generally chattering loudly…
Disaster songs and Fluvanna rocker up for Grammys [December 7]
Amid the Justin Timberlakes, Amy Winehouses and John Mayers, there were a couple a local names in this year’s…
Can't wait for warm weather [December 6]
Central Virginia is becoming quite the sports town in the eyes of national magazines lately—recreational sports, that is.
Goode: Happy B-day General Lee! [December 5]
Northern Virginia has been a fairly liberal enclave in what was once a solidly conservative state, so it may seem strange that Congressman Virgil Goode is going there today for some R&R. But he'll be in familiar company.
How stupid it is [December 5]
While today saw the first snowfall of the year in Charlottesville, this accident wasn't weather-related—more like idiot-related.
Super-size that
Your article "PAC-men pump coins into local races" [November 13, 2007] on campaign funding in the recent election contained a very large factual error with regard to the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s race. Reporter Scott Weaver writes that "Camblos racked up a little over $26,400." In fact, he raised more than two times that amount—$58,940, as of […]