Tuesday, December 19Full-circle floors The December issue of the green-building magazine eco-structure contains a love letter to Ruckersville-based Mountain Lumber, which reclaims and recycles wood to be used as flooring. In owner Willie Drake’s 32 years in the business, he’s nabbed wood from such sources as Guinness stout-brewing vats, Ming dynasty-era structures from China, and […]
Tuesday, December 12 Bills the kid Is there anything this kid can’t do? Among Brian Bills’ abilities are hobnobbing with politicos, generating an uncanny interest in current events among his peers and making us feel really inferior about our accomplishment. The Virginia Department of Education announced yesterday that local wunderkind Brian Bills has been named […]
Al Terek Pettiford reads poetry at his graduation from the New Beginnings transitional re-entry program at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. Pettiford, serving time for embezzlement, is one of 14 inmates to graduate from the program,
Part of the South Lawn project, the new Arts & Sciences building will be the first UVA building to strive for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification—but if a proposal goes through, it won’t be the last. The building and grounds committee of the Board of Visitors (BOV) (www.virginia.edu/bov) recommended at their December […]
Firefighters helped cordon off the area around a gas leak in front of the Charlottesville Circuit Court on High Street. Workers installing a sprinkler system for the building inadvertently cut through a main city gas line around 9:30am on Tuesday, December 12, making the area highly flammable—responders weren’t supposed to so much as touch each […]
By Will Goldsmith, Cathy Harding and Meg McEvoy GOVERNMENT Due to the alcohol-related death of Albemarle High School student Nolan Jenkins in a car accident in May, the Albemarle School Board examined off-campus partying and schools’ alcohol policies. Meanwhile, Virginia closed a loophole that allowed parents to serve alcohol to underage guests. In a campaign […]
By Will Goldsmith, Cathy Harding and Meg McEvoyObjects of his affection Lawsuits breathing down his neck, scandals tailing him from South Africa and the U.K., Jeremy Harvey did what only Jeremy Harvey could do: The 62-year-old local investment banker tied the knot for the second time with 81-year-old newspaper heiress Betty Scripps in Las Vegas […]
Oh-six was a year of contradictions and confounded assumptions. The Republican incumbent who was supposed to be unbeatable for the Senate enacted his own Chernobyl-like meltdown; “affordable housing,” the presumed cause du jour, turned into a dictionary game …
His only crime is breaking hearts, but with a mug like that, we’re more than happy to include George Clooney on our blotter. Oh and now that he’s made a deal with our favorite local courts and crime hero (and handsome man in his own right) John Grisham
Tuesday, December 5 Pardon? Percy Levar Walton, on death row for three brutal homicides, had his execution stayed this summer pending an investigation of his mental competence. Governor Tim Kaine’s office today announced that Walton has been found unfit for execution. People who are executed in the United States must be aware of “the punishment […]