At least one Albemarle County high school is ready to roll out artificial turf on its football field this fall. Monticello High has locked down the $600,000 necessary, thanks to a donor who paid the balance last week, reports NBC-29.
So you might not have heard it here first, but regrettably, the firing of Dave Leitao on a Monday afternoon couldn’t have come at a worse time in our production cycle. Dave Leitao’s sideline demeanor raised questions, though more baffling were his wildly varied rotations and his quick hook if players made mistakes. All around, […]
The City of Charlottesville and the Virginia Department of Transportation nominally won in a circuit court hearing last week over a motion for a preliminary injunction to stop the Meadowcreek Parkway, but the victory may be pyrrhic depending on what Judge Jay Swett decides during a May 19 hearing over the merits. Meadowcreek Parkway […]
After running unopposed in 2007, Republican Delegate Rob Bell will have to return to the campaign trail to retain his seat in the General Assembly. Cynthia Neff, an Albemarle Democrat, will challenge Bell, according to today’s Daily Progress.
However, the judge considers the merits of the case “wide open” and will hear them in late May.
The agenda said the nearly two dozen people gathered at a long table in City Space on March 3 from the four local boards that control the water supply were there to discuss a set of task force recommendations about maintaining the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir. Hah. As usual, the real issue the city and […]
Plans are still conceptual, but could include a grocery store on Lexington Avenue.
In the wake of the work stoppage at the Landmark Hotel, the city has asked the project’s construction firm, Clancy & Theys, to take down scaffolding at Second Street SW.
“It can be a rather thankless job,†said Norris. “It’s a lot of work for a little pay, and you have to develop a pretty thick skin in this job.
Halsey Minor, the former local boy who made a fortune in California during the dot-com boom,