Every year at about this time, we take a special look back at the news that was. And yes, we’re looking for the gaffes, the missteps, the you-have-got-to-be-kidding-me’s. Thankfully, 2004 was rich in them, mostly because public officials did so much to promote fear and divisiveness. And that was just the Sheriff’s office! Media organizations […]
Special short-deadline holiday edition Tuesday, December 21 Street kid gets 28 years for non-fatal shooting Gamar Leander Turner, a black Charlottesville man whom his attorney described as a “product of the streets,” according to a report by James Fernald in The Daily Progress, was today sentenced on three charges related to a 2003 Fifeville shooting. […]
Tuesday, December 14 Bank move adjacent to Meadow Creek approved Charlottesville Planning Commissioners tonight approved a site plan submitted by Union Bank and Trust to relocate its Barracks Road-area branch to a site near Meadow Creek. According to a report by John Yellig in The Daily Progress, the bank, which earlier this year acquired Guaranty […]
Tuesday, December 7 Driver cited for hit-and-run Acting, they said, on a couple of Crimestoppers tips, Albemarle County Police today charged a Free Union man with felony hit-and-run. Nineteen-year-old Liza Jones was struck on Earlysville Road late on November 29 as she crawled from her wrecked car. She had been proceeding north on the winding […]
On November 9, 1620, the Mayflower bobbed in choppy brine off the Cape Cod coast. On board were 101 puke-green Puritans, seasick and starving after an Atlantic crossing that had taken more than two months. Although they’d hoped to land further south, on the more temperate beaches of Virginia, the passengers and crew soon decided […]
Tuesday, November 30 Guv urges fitness Mark Warner’s two-day Summit on Healthy Virginians wrapped up this afternoon with a visit from the trim guv himself. Addressing several hundred people, Warner reiterated the state’s dire obesity figures and identified a trio of target groups for improved health—State employees, school children and Medicaid recipients. Warner characterized the […]
Tuesday, November 23 Poetry site gets NEA nod Senator George Allen’s office announces today that Poetry Daily, a locally produced poetry website (www.poems.com), has been granted $7,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts. The grant marks the second dollop of NEA money this year for the site, a 7-year-old project of Don Selby and […]
Those words, declared by CBS, were used to promote the brick-throwing explosion of punk idealism and rebellion that was The Clash. There’s hardly a more compact statement of the scale and impossibility of rock’s sometime ambitions and pretensions than that. With the November 23 release of U2’s 11th studio album, How to Dismantle an Atomic […]
Tuesday, November 16 Giving voice to the beakless While the drive-through window remained busy, a pair of young activists from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals appeared outside the Emmet Street KFC this noon, dangling rubber chickens and holding signs that read “KFC tortures chickens” and “Boycott KFC.” Activist Kat Erdel wore a flat-screen […]
Anise Labrum was 20 years old and living in Los Angeles not long before the 2000 presidential election. She had been seeing her boyfriend for about a year. Back then, Labrum, a fashion stylist, loosely considered herself a Democrat. Her sweetheart, on the other hand, was a Republican. They knew they differed on politics, but […]