As we head into election season proper, we’re taking a look at the four contested races for seats on the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors. Yesterday, we introduced the two Scottsville District candidates. Today, we hear from the Rio candidates: Incumbent Republican Rodney Thomas and Democrat Brad Sheffield. Rodney Thomas Party: Republican Age: 69 Occupation: […]
Late on the night of Wednesday, June 8, 2011, a few prominent county real estate developers and other vocal supporters of the long-stalled plan to build a Route 29 bypass around Charlottesville strolled into Lane Auditorium at the tail end of a marathon meeting of the Board of Supervisors.
The county police officer who shot a 21-year-old Crozet man to death in a confrontation June 8 won’t be charged with a crime, Commonwealth’s Attorney Denise Lunsford announced today. Nearly 11 weeks after the incident, Lunsford released a six-page statement with a legal analysis of the investigation into the shooting that stated Albemarle County police […]
Carlos Ayers isn’t sure exactly why it dawned on him when it did, but he knew at age 15 that he was going to be a doctor. “I was just waltzing along, and all of a sudden it came over me that this is what I wanted to do,” he said. That was 1947, when […]
Wendy Fisher fell in love with Montessori through the experience of her children. Fisher, now head of school at Mountaintop Montessori on Pantops, spent so much time in the classroom of the school in Washington, D.C. that the oldest of her five kids attended that the head of school suggested Fisher explore getting certified to […]
Rapid developments in the case of missing Nelson County teen Alexis Murphy following the arrest of a 48-year-old Lovingston man have attracted the interest of news outlets around the country, and are shining new light on another unsolved disappearance. Randy Allen Taylor, a convicted burglar and arsonist, was arrested Sunday, August 11, and charged with […]
The investigation into the disappearance of 17-year-old Alexis Murphy is reigniting interest in the case of Samantha Clarke, an Orange resident who vanished in September 2010 when she was 19. The link: Both women may have had contact with Randy Allen Taylor, the 48-year-old Nelson man arrested Sunday on forcible abduction charges in relation to […]
For the first time since the 2004 launch of AccessUVA, the much-lauded financial aid program, the University of Virginia is requiring lower-income students to take out loans as part of their aid packages. The decision to end the debt-free support initiative, held up as a key part of a model program and copied by institutions […]
The cry rang up and down Charlottesville’s rainy Downtown Mall last Wednesday evening, a call-and-answer chant heard at rallies across the country in the weeks since George Zimmerman was acquitted of murder in the February 2012 shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. “I am!” “Trayvon Martin!” But Eden Zekarias, the UVA third-year who […]
Ten years ago last month, a sharecropper’s son from Kentucky was elected Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire. Because Gene Robinson is gay, his elevation to one of the highest positions of authority within the Episcopal Church rocked and splintered the church to an extent that no other issue in its history ever […]