Meandering on a Friday night through the packed paths on E. Main Street, the official name of the strip most of us think of only as the Downtown Mall, it’s hard to fathom that such unquestionable success is a recent phenomenon. When The Hardware Store restaurant opened in 1976, “You could have shot a cannon […]
Sean Singletary, one of the most electric players ever to run the floor for UVA, was drafted in the second round of the NBA draft last night, going to the Sacramento Kings with the 42nd pick of the draft.
The U.S. Olympic trials begin tomorrow in Eugene, Oregon, and Charlottesville shot putter (and recent C-VILLE 20 cover boy) Adam Nelson will have to place in the top two to get a chance to compete in his third Olympic games.
The city has long been planning to rebrick the Mall—a $7.5 million exercise it says is necessary to keep it attractive to shoppers who otherwise might be lured to new shopping centers like the ever-in-the-works Albemarle Place.
As C-VILLE went to press on Monday, state legislators were setting to work in Richmond on Governor Tim Kaine’s transportation bill. And boy, do they have their work cut out for them. Not only do they have to read Kaine’s 55-page reworking of last year’s mirage of a transportation funding solution—they also have to find […]
Though some local Hillary Clinton supporters [cough, John Grisham, cough] have yet to throw their weight behind Barack Obama, David Slutzky came out to a state Democratic joint canvassing kick-off event June 21 for Obama, Mark Warner and Tom Perriello
Dredging of the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir is coming closer to a reality, one board meeting at a time. And this afternoon, the one that counts the most, the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority, voted unanimously to have staff put together a request for proposals
Jesse Gottschalk, a rising senior at Swarthmore who’s from Charlottesville, hadn’t planned on working for a campaign this summer. He was the president of his school’s Barack Obama campaign and came away wanting to learn more this summer than what he thought a political race could teach him
Designs for the new Whole Foods on Hydraulic Road—at 66,600 square feet, more than twice the size of its current building—left the city Planning Commission June 10 not completely whole.
To get the word out about her client’s property, Mary Leavell, a local real estate agent with Keller Williams, is a big fan of using off-site signs—those placards that point, usually with brightly colored arrows, to property for sale off the beaten path. “The stats I’ve seen from the National Association of Realtors is that […]