Daily Progress parent company to cut 750 jobs
Apparently The Daily Progress is so strapped for reporters these days that it has to rely on the Associated Press to get word out about its parent company’s woes.
Saturation point
For an update on City Council’s May 19 public hearing on water needs, click here. In many ways, the latest flap over the community’s long-term water-supply plan is quintessential Charlottesville. It involves most of the basic elements of your typical local story—excruciating planning, expenditures of public money, and questions of human desires vs. ecological needs. […]
Black robed army assaults Lawn
Scattered showers put a slight damper on the 179th year of “Final Exercises,” UVA’s graduation exercises, where 6,400 degrees were conferred May 18 by University President John Casteen, but the masses still poured down the Lawn for the traditional walk. Hunter R. Rawlings III, a visiting UVA classics professor and former president of Cornell and […]
City Council hears “final†comments on water supply
Dozens of supporters and detractors of the $143 million plan to meet city and county water needs until 2055 came out to join the public record last night. City Council billed the public hearing as the last chance to make a statement, and 34 people addressed the topic, including environmentalists, business interests, citizens worried about costs – and a former city mayor.
Murder arrest 20 years later
Roger Shifflett had stopped by the gas station he and his wife owned on Route 20 South on the morning of June 20, 1988, when he was shot and killed as part of what appeared to be a $135 robbery.
Roanoke Times questions Red Light amphitheater
Not every town is tickled pink to have Red Light Management get involved in a project. Coran Capshaw’s company won a $120,000 contract in April to conduct a feasibility study for a riverside amphitheater in Roanoke.
Women’s basketball struggles academically
Debbie Ryan had better make sure her team is on its game this exam season: All UVA sports teams made the academic cut this year, though women’s basketball didn’t have much room to spare—it beat the buzzer, so to speak, to avoid scholarship reductions or other penalties by the NCAA, college sports’ governing body. Debbie […]
Two projects bank on Preston’s promise
For the most part, Preston Avenue is a place in between places, an auto-oriented strip you pass through to get from Barracks Road to Downtown. But the city Planning Commission, along with a couple of pioneering developers, are hoping that Preston can become more than just a cut through. Alex Dotson and other investors have […]
Students imagine MaJeff in 2018
Ten years from now, the corner of Locust and High streets will undergo a dramatic facelift. In place of the Martha Jefferson Hospital will spring hundreds of housing units, a grocery store, an assisted-living facility, a linear park, and office space, served by an underground parking lot.
City gets nudge on stormwater laws
On the morning of May 9, the streets of Charlottesville were still carrying the torrents of the night before, the stormwater runoff forming an unfortunate conveyer belt moving oil and detritus into local rivers and eroding stream banks in the process. As a way of doing something about it, local groups have launched a concerted […]