Unusual developments Major error in the Fifth/Avon streets big box story [“Chain reaction,” The Week, September 14]. “Albemarle County Supervisor Lindsay Dorrier Jr….reminded his colleagues of how Panorama Farms developer Jim Murray….” My brother James B. Murray, Jr. sold the Fifth/Avon land to Coran Capshaw. Our father James B. Murray bought Panorama Farms in 1952 […]
Unusual developments Major error in the Fifth/Avon streets big box story [“Chain reaction,” The Week, September 14]. “Albemarle County Supervisor Lindsay Dorrier Jr….reminded his colleagues of how Panorama Farms developer Jim Murray….” My brother James B. Murray, Jr. sold the Fifth/Avon land to Coran Capshaw. Our father James B. Murray bought Panorama Farms in 1952 […]
Required reading Thanks for the article “Breaking rank” [August 31]. How about doing a comprehensive article in early to mid-October based on some of the following books: -Worse Than Watergate, which coversthe extreme secrecy of the Bush Administration. -Price of Loyalty, which reveals this administration’s true aims of world domination over both enemies and allies. […]
Paper trail As a bookseller, restaurateur, publisher and more, Sandy McAdams has no peer. As an historian of local journalism, however, he appears to be a bit out of his depth. In the course of wishing C-VILLE a happy 15th birthday [“Happy Birthday to Us,” September 7], McAdams wrote: “Twenty-five years ago, friends and I […]
No letters published this week Correction In last week’s Read This First, the last name of Charlottesville Community Design Center director Katie Swenson was misspelled. C-VILLE regrets the error.
Tuning in to Ted Thank you for re-publishing Ted Turner’s insights on the country’s broadcasting mess [“Distressed signals,” August 10]. Turner is one of very few heroes in an industry dominated by villains. The radio stations listed in your sidebar on media ownership covered the jukeboxes for the help but failed to list WTJU, the […]
UVA: State your business I write in response to your article “UVA to stiff-arm State?” [7 Days, The Week, August 3]. I agree with UVA President John Casteen when he said that “Virginia has failed to kick in its fair share of funds since 1989.” True enough. What I don’t agree with is the plan […]
Cut the red tape I am writing to ask why our local government treats the south side citizens as though we are second class. We would like all of the amenities that they allow on 29N. The south side of town has a billion dollar interstate highway with a multimillion dollar interchange, Fifth Street, where […]
How long dead? Regarding “Grilled Cheese,” the Spotlight on The String Cheese Incident [August 3] by Ben Sellers: Dude, Jerry Garcia died in 1995. Tom Lawless tomlawless@earthlink.net Dance lessons Looking at the “Read This First” section from the August 3 edition, I was pleased to see a reference to a performance that we […]
Get your own opinion Your writer quoted Bob Hodous’ assessment of the film Fahrenheit 9/11 [“Right or wrong,” July 6] based on negative comments made by William Raspberry in his review (Hodous chose not to see the film himself). However, Hodous quoted only those statements that would substantiate his position on the film (more particularly, […]
Sing along, everyone I am Uriah J. Fields, the person mentioned by name in Kathryn Bertoni’s letter to the C-VILLE Weekly [“’Baritone’ off base,” Mailbag, July 6]. In the letter, she pointed out that in the article “Busted baritone” [Ask Ace, June 22] the journalist wrote disparagingly of and indicted the nearly 90 vendors doing […]