Flashback to 2005: After the worst drought on record and a whole lot of talk (and some misguided action) going back 30 years, it looked like there was a plan to expand the water supply that actually would work and satisfy a host of interests—developers who wanted water for the future, advocates who wanted better streamflows for aquatic critters, regulators who needed laws upheld, and ethicists and environmentalists who thought it best to use water from our watershed instead of drinking from the James River.

Last week, about a dozen neighbors gathered in a room in the Tonsler Community Center to do some basic event planning for a community day with an official from the city Parks and Recreation Department. In terms of event planning, it was your standard stuff—figuring out whether or not to rent a dunking booth, how […]

More feature articles: Fifeville’s future Now at the crossroads of change, city neighbors clash Fifeville in flux Mapping out the neighborhood One way to keep residents in homes City-financed rehabs The incredible rise in Fifeville assessmentsOne force pushing out longtime residents is the dramatic 23 percent annual increase in assessments in Fifeville since 2004, which […]

The city Board of Architectural Review has recommended 10 properties be added to the local list of individually protected properties, a designation to protect the buildings from demolition and exterior change without city approval. Most of the buildings were commercial, such as the former Monticello Dairy building on Preston Avenue, or church buildings, like the […]

UVA environmental science Professor James Galloway returned from a class on the nitrogen cascade [pdf] in February to find a strange message on his voicemail, a man saying he would call back at 1:30pm. “Every now and then I get prank calls from people with solutions to pollution and things like that, so I was […]

The gin and whiskey flowed freely at Carr’s Hill on April 24. And why not? It was 5pm on a warm spring day—and at last UVA had a dean of Arts & Sciences. A group of faculty, students and administrators assembled in a pavilion outside the University President John Casteen’s house to meet Meredith Jung-En […]