At long last, Republicans in Richmond (www.vagop.com) unveiled a transportation spending plan on January 18, finally reaching compromise after a long stalemate. A special session solely devoted to the issue couldn’t get the job done last year, largely because of conflicts between Republicans in the Senate, who were interested in raising taxes, and Republicans in […]
Fred Scott, Jr. may have sold his Bundoran farm in southern Albemarle to New Hampshire developers, but that doesn’t mean he’s stopped thinking about farming. And he hopes that a recent $2.1 million donation to create
After years of committees, plans and stalemates on mountain protection policies, the County Board of Supervisors (www.albemarle.org) finally seems to have come to a consensus on a plan that would extend building restrictions not only to the mountainous areas but across the rural areas asa whole. The decision took a few hours on the tractor. […]
As anyone can attest who’s attended an entire session, City Planning Commission meetings can be drawn-out affairs. After all the staff comments, applicant comments, public comments, commissioner comments and commissioner comments on the other commissioners’ comments—the hour often creeps past 12am. So in order to cut back on the midnight madness, the Planning Commission recently […]
It was the best of weeks; it was the worst of weeks.
The best: January 3, win at home against Gonzaga. Final score: 108-87.
After nearly a month of deliberations, the County Board of Supervisors (www.albemarle.org) voted 4-2 to put $250,000 toward a “jobs development opportunity fund,” which would give County officials some money to help entice companies to settle in the county. In a separate vote at their January 3 meeting, County supervisors also opted 4-2 to pay […]
The new Biscuit Run development has made some of the most grandiose promises in Albemarle County history—and so far we’ve only seen the proposed offerings in the transportation realm. One alone is estimated to be worth $5.5 million. Still on the way are pledges of affordable housing, land for a school, and whatever else the […]
Amid heaps of seeming junk in Oliver Kuttner’s workshop on E. Market Street sits a steel skeleton portending the next big building on the Downtown Mall, on the site of the former Boxer Learning center.
“We’re a little overdue for a pandemic,” says Marge Sidebottom, emergency planner for the UVA Health System. Three influenza pandemics have struck the U.S., most notably in 1918, but also in 1957 and 1968-he 1918 pandemic alone killed at least 50 million people worldwide.
It ought to have been a festive occasion: Lane Auditorium was all decked out with frazier fir boughs, decorative ribbons, yellow poinsettias and Christmas lights. An eclectic crowd filled the seats and the County planning commissioners adjusted their nameplates so that they weren’t obscured by the decorations. But Christmas didn’t come early for those in […]