In the span of three months, a trio of pipeline proposals through Virginia has turned the Commonwealth into a key player in the country’s rapidly expanding natural gas industry. The projects, two of which follow preliminary paths that come close to Albemarle County, aren’t exactly unexpected. Still, they have some nearby landowners worried, and conservationists […]
“We have a budget—that’s the good news,” Del. David Toscano said Monday afternoon. The House minority leader and Charlottesville rep was on his cell, en route to Richmond for an evening legislative session to vote on Governor Terry McAuliffe’s budget vetoes. The good news, at least for any remaining hopes of bipartisan agreement on Medicaid […]
The Western Bypass is down for its dirt nap, and all eyes are on the implementation of a $230 million package of alternatives aimed at easing congestion on Route 29 through Albemarle County. In a unanimous vote in Richmond last Wednesday, the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) allocated the funds for the local projects as part […]
Early this month, the Albemarle County Planning Commission heard from not one but two private school headmasters at its regular meeting in Lane Auditorium at the County Office Building. The institutions themselves were very different: Tandem Friends School, a 44-year-old Quaker middle and high school, and Regents, a small Christian K-through-12 academy founded in 2010. […]
It was unanimous. Charlottesville’s City Council voted together Monday night to select local developer Keith Woodard’s plan to redevelop the downtown lot that’s been home to the weekend City Market since 1993. Woodard’s proposal, dubbed “Market Plaza,” calls for an open-air public space with room for 170 vendor stalls bordered on two sides by a […]
After years of study and debate, the Charlottesville City Council is poised to pick a design for a permanent home for the City Market, the weekly farmers’ market that has occupied the municipally owned parking lot on Water Street since 1993. Four proposals are in, each including multi-story mixed-use residential and commercial buildings with space […]
A lawsuit alleging that medical neglect led to suffering and death at the women’s prison in Fluvanna is poised to head to trial at the end of this year, but the state’s prison health care provider, a defendant in the suit, has thrown a wrench in the works. Tennessee-based Corizon Health, Inc. gave notice June […]
A former deputy clerk in the Albemarle County Circuit Court Clerk’s office has been charged with embezzlement after allegedly pocketing nearly $14,000 in court fees over four years. Dayna Awkard, a 24-year employee of the office, was placed on administrative leave and then resigned in March shortly after a tip from an unnamed court employee […]
The last time Halsey Minor’s name made national headlines was a year ago last week, when the former Charlottesville investor declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy in an effort to clear his slate of more than $100 million in debt. Minor profited wildly when he sold his Web startub CNET to CBS for $200 million in 2008, but his personal […]
Ever check to see where your frozen veggies from Whole Foods were grown? In the future, the back of that package of peas could read “Albemarle County.” Charlottesville and Albemarle have received a joint Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development (AFID) grant from the state to craft a business plan for a flash-freezing facility, and those […]