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August 08: One thing leads to another

“If you were to design a house, you’d be highly unlikely to come up with this design,” says Theo van Groll, sitting in the dining room of his home in Gordonsville. Indeed, the house’s odd form—low and oblong, spacious but somehow appearing small—is unusual, and that’s because it wasn’t meant to be a house at […]

Erika Howsare | July 29, 2008

Living

August 08: Plugged in

Talk about full circle: Megan Huddleston now lives in a house near Crozet where, as a 15-year-old, she fed dogs for a neighbor and had permission to walk through the nearby fields whenever she wanted. A year ago, she and her boyfriend Ferd Moyse—he’s a member of the Hackensaw Boys and they both play in […]

Erika Howsare | July 29, 2008

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Perriello keeps on truckin’

Constituents in Virginia’s Fifth congressional district keep ponying up for Tom Perriello. According to his campaign, the Democrat raised $313,000 in the second quarter of the year, which is a record for Democratic challengers to incumbent Virgil Goode. However, Perriello’s campaign doesn’t mention that Goode himself raised a bit more ($390,000) during the same quarter.

Erika Howsare | July 16, 2008

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Layoffs at LexisNexis

One of the larger employers in town, the local office of legal publishing company LexisNexis, has laid off 18 employees, according to a Richmond Times-Dispatch article published today. The first wave of cuts saw 11 local jobs axed in May following an April announcement that nearly 300 positions across the country would be outsourced. Another seven jobs in the Charlottesville office were eliminated last week; those cuts were due to restructuring.

Erika Howsare | July 2, 2008

Living

July 08: Star turn

Quick: Where is the sun? Many people, caught off-guard by that question, couldn’t come up with the right answer. Whereas in earlier eras people would locate the sun to figure out what time it was, we 21st century types tell time by our watches, our computer screen clocks and our cell phones. Sunlight’s got nothing […]

Erika Howsare | July 1, 2008

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July 08: Home at last

Daniel and Kari Rothamel are house professionals. They’re in their fifth year selling houses, and Daniel writes a well-read local blog about real estate (realestatezebra.com). But it wasn’t until this February that the couple became first-time homebuyers themselves. That’s when they moved into a not-so-big house in Lake Monticello, a place with the kind of […]

Erika Howsare | July 1, 2008