Dressed in the standard black and white prison stripes and girded in shackles, Kevin Alfred Strom strode into the U.S. District courtroom with a beatific smile, and then noticed an elderly couple amid the 10 or 15 people in the audience. “Thanks for coming,” he said to them. “I love you. Tell the kids I’m […]

On June 2, three candidates for City Council will be selected at the Democratic Nominating Convention from a field of five. Only one is an incumbent, Mayor David Brown. As no

Last May, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution of intent 5-1 to move some 30 acres of Wendell Wood’s land from rural to development classification. It was

Jerry Falwell started Liberty University (Lynchburg Baptist at the time) in 1971. In 1988, I arrived on campus and stayed for the next two years, as a student and a guest of his, as I

As a three-year resident of Grady Avenue, I used to live right up the street from New Covenant Pentecostal Church and would drive past the narrow white structure, hearing the booming sounds from inside, wishing I was in there, too. When I finally met Bishop William Nowell and told him this, he smiled, revealing a […]

Robert plays a flute. Standing in front of the Jefferson Theater, he places the thin metal instrument up to his lips and blows, the sweet sounds wafting up and down the Mall. Inside a black fedora on the ground are five copper pennies. “I need to get a new shirt,” he says. “And something to […]

Last summer, River Heights Associates, a company largely controlled by Wendell Wood, filed suit in the Albemarle County Circuit Court against Regency Centers Corporation, DRG

Four of the five Democratic candidates for City Council recently met at Fry’s Spring Beach Club to discuss their positions on various issues facing the neighborhood off Old Lynchburg Road and Jefferson Park Avenue. Only months ago, a contingent of elderly retired residents from the neighborhood forced the Council into agreeing to make various improvements […]