It\’s a done dealâexcept for the deal. Both Charlottesville City Council and the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors last week approved Ragged Mountain Reservoir as the preferred alternative to meet water needs until 2055. However, the tougher questions about mitigation, money and phasing remain unresolved.
The local Head Start, a federally funded preschool program, ended last month, but officials are already concerned about how they will meet the growing demand for next year\’s classes.
Want to check last night\’s NBA box score while waiting for the bus at East Market? Well, as long as you have a wireless laptop, you\’re now in luck, thanks to City Council\’s recently purchased high-power wireless antenna.
Prom weekend for area public high schools came and went on Saturday without a single drunk-driving tragedy. Police did bust up a 5:30am bonfire party in Crozet last Sunday morning, however, arresting 16 mostly Western Albemarle High teens on charges of underage possession of alcohol. In addition, cops responded to a few smaller events, says Albemarle Police Lt. John Teixeira.
A self-described “nerd debate kid” her entire life, Dahlia Lithwick\’s fascination with court-related reporting began when she stumbled into the Microsoft anti-trust trial and discovered, as she puts it: “This is theater. This is Shakespeare.”
Even though Andrew Alston will be released nearly five months early, the former UVA student convicted of voluntary manslaughter for killing volunteer firefighter Walter Sisk is appealing the terms of his June 21 release.
“We do a lot of planning in Charlottesville.” With this statement of the obvious, Jim Tolbert opened the Charlottesville strategic planning forum Wednesday night. He then proceeded to lay out various City blueprints: neighborhood plans, department plans, a comprehensive plan, and-he plan for which this brainstorming session for local concerns and ideas was calledâa strategic plan for 2011.
Despite controversy heading into last Saturday’s Democratic nominating convention for the Fifth District that includes Charlottesville, as expected Nelson County farmer Al Weed won the honor of again challenging Republican incumbent Virgil Goode for his congressional seat.
Earlier this spring, each locality in the Fifth District held a caucus, during which party faithful elected delegates to represent them in a primary. After the caucuses, Weed emerged with the most delegates. However, the race was contested up to the end because Weed’s opponent, Bern Ewert, kept his hopes alive by challenging delegates to renege on their pledge and switch their votes from Weed to Ewert.
Last week UVA entered the ACC baseball tournament ranked No. 5 in the nation, capping UVA\’s best season in years. UVA finished the regular season with a 46-11 record (21-9 in the ACC) and the team hopes to appear in the College World Series to be held next month in Omaha.
Observers credit UVA\’s ascendency to head coach Brian O\’Connor, who inherited a mediocre team with a 29-25 record when he took over in 2004.
What you do with the other guy\’s recruits never matters as much as what you do with your own. UVA head basketball coach Dave Leitao won a berth in the National Invitational Tournament in his first season, but that won\’t satisfy UVA fans (and administrators) when the Cavs are playing in the swanky John Paul Jones Arena next year.