It’s just after 6am Eastern Standard Time on a Wednesday in early December, and about a dozen journalists, environmental scientists, and educators from four time zones are popping in and out of an AOL chat room. There’s some small talk about the weather in Bozeman, Montana and Montevideo, Uruguay, but mostly, people are trawling the […]
In a split vote Monday night, the Charlottesville City Council approved changes to historic designations for several buildings on West Main Street, a move that at least one developer says could chill the kind of redevelopment the city has long sought for the corridor. The change, proposed by the Board of Architectural Review in September, […]
Charlottesville is giving a shot in the arm to its nascent electric car scene, something officials believe will be good for the local environment—and the local economy. The city is now accepting applications for a new mini-grant program that will steer $50,000 from an existing public green initiatives fund to businesses that install charging stations, […]
The legal battle over Charlottesville’s controversial ordinance banning panhandling within 50′ of traffic crossings on the Downtown Mall is back in the hands of a federal judge who threw out the case last year. Judge Norman K. Moon previously dismissed the argument that the ordinance unfairly restricts the First Amendment rights of people who beg […]
A week after his death, many of Gus Deeds’ longtime friends are still trying to reconcile the person they knew with the one the world was introduced to in grim headlines last Tuesday, when news broke that the 24-year-old son of State Senator Creigh Deeds had attacked his father before taking his own life at the […]
Last week, members of the Charlottesville Planning Commission got their first look at a nine-story, 240-unit student housing complex planned for the corner of West Main Street and Roosevelt Brown Boulevard, across the street from the UVA Medical Center’s trauma center, and they weren’t thrilled. The $50 million project—for now referred to simply as 1000 […]
Last Saturday would have been a quiet day in Southwood, the mobile home park off Fifth Street Extended just south of Charlottesville, if not for the leaf blowers. About a dozen residents of the neighborhood—home to 1,500 people, the majority of them Latino—gathered in the morning to clear a heavy carpet of oak leaves from […]
Another one bites the dust. By the time the week is out, the number of moviehouses shuttered since the arrival of the Regal 14 at Stonefield will be up to three, as Carmike Cinemas closes its six-screen theater in the Gardens Shopping Center on Route 29. As a result of the closure, Charlottesville will be […]
The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors last week signaled its approval of a request to connect Monticello to public sewer lines and expand its access to public water, despite county staff’s recommendations against the new infrastructure. The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the private organization that owns and operates the UNESCO World Heritage site and in 2011 […]
In 10 months, a massive helium balloon will drift upward from the New Mexico desert to the edge of space, expanding to the size of a football field before it reaches a stopping point 23 miles above Earth. On a platform attached to it will be a tiny sub-orbital satellite, the result of nearly a […]