Who says you can’t go home again? After seven years with Habitat for Humanity (www.avenue.org/habitat) and another three with the AIDS/HIV Services Group, Kelly Eplee is returning to Madison House (www.scs.student.virginia.edu/~madison) where he worked as the assistant director from 1992 to 1996. He will fill the position of executive director and says he is “excited […]
The Albemarle County Planning Commission meeting on December 5 was a testament to the power of the individual—or at least a persuasive argument for citizen vigilance. On the docket for a work session were two matters concerning additions to the Hollymead Town Center, which includes Target off Route 29 in northern Albemarle. The commission was […]
“I never thought we’d say this…” Planning Commission Chair Marcia Joseph paused and a smile pursed her lips. “…but can we turn up the volume on Mr. Cox?” Laughs scattered throughout Lane Auditorium. The subject of Joseph’s jab was architect Frank Cox, who came to represent the New Era Properties investment group (rumored to include Coran Capshaw and Biscuit Run developer Hunter Craig).
On the last night of November, a smattering of locals gathered in the Scottsville Town Council Chambers to discuss a messy topic: water quality problems in the Hardware and North Fork Hardware Rivers. Set in between Charlottesville and Scottsville, the rivers flow into the James and are on the State’s impaired waters list for fecal […]
At 69.5 acres, the Granger Property is the last major undeveloped tract of land in the southern Albemarle growth area surrounding UVA, officially known as Area B. On Tuesday night, the Albemarle County Planning Commission wanted to know why.
“How are you doing?” Rarely does a judge speak in such a convivial manner to a perpetrator, but that’s exactly what happens every Thursday morning in Charlottesville-Albemarle Drug Court, a treatment and rehabilitation program for nonviolent felons who are also addicts.
Virginia voters just passed an amendment to the State Constitution restricting marriage to the “union between one man and one woman” and banning civil unions. It’s a defeat for gay marriage advocates, but some choose to see a silver lining. “We always knew the work needed to continue,” says Dyana Mason, executive director of Equality […]
Standing at a podium facing City Council, Charlottesville resident Ida Lewis unfurled a neatly folded set of papers and began to read. “I am here again to voice my concern for the progress of historic Jefferson School,” said Lewis early in the November 20 council meeting. She was far from the only one to express […]
Of any area in Charlottesville, Pantops—with its many car dealerships and strip malls lining Route 250 East—would seem an unlikely candidate for the planning stage (at least, at this point). Yet, on Tuesday, August 23, the Albemarle County Planning Commission undertook the first of three work sessions to discuss the preliminary draft of the Pantops […]
Last February, Mitchell Wade, the former head of defense contractor MZM, pleaded guilty to paying California Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham more than $1 million in bribes in exchange for government contracts. Cunningham is currently serving eight years in prison for his part in the scandal and on Monday, August 21, Wade appeared in Federal Court […]