The Holidays: A Great and Profitable Time to List Your Home
By Celeste M. Smucker – Everyone knows the winter months, and especially the holiday season, are not the best times to sell a home, right? Who would want to be […]
Make the Most of Your Home for Holiday Entertaining
By Marilyn Pribus – “During the holidays, you can entertain regardless if you have an open concept or more traditional layout,” declares REALTOR® Paul McArtor of Montague, Miller & Co. […]
In brief: No permits, no DP editor, no daycare license and more
Permission denied Minutes before a decision was due, City Manager Maurice Jones denied several special event permits for rallies and counterrallies proposed on the weekend of August 12 in Emancipation, […]
Blue Christmas: Diner not ready to reopen
When we last heard from the owner of Blue Moon Diner in May, she said she was closing the West Main Street institution for renovations until early 2018. Now, as […]
Dude, where’s my mail? Frustrated residents want answers
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds,” wrote Herodotus, an ancient Greek philosopher, in what later became […]
Family closure: Sentence suspended for father who killed son
The former UVA police officer who killed his mentally ill son while defending his family last year won’t serve any additional jail time, an Albemarle County judge ruled December 5. […]
Welcome to Orange County Where Privacy and Lower Prices Await
By Celeste M. Smucker – Is the stress of urban life taking its toll? Fighting traffic getting old? Do you yearn for a time when neighbors called to each other […]
Country Lifestyle: Loving Where You Live
By Ken Wilson – “How ya gonna keep ’em down on the farm (after they’ve seen Paree)?” some people still say, but they’re just showing their age. Cities have their […]
Net neutrality: Local industry professionals debate pros and cons of an open market
Whether you’re streaming cat videos or brushing up on the Rohingya Muslim crackdown in Myanmar, net neutrality requires an internet service provider that allows consumers to do both at the […]
Still relevant?: WVPT and WHTJ public television stations merge, say declining revenues not a factor
For years, two out-of-town public television stations fought to claim status as Charlottesville’s “local” PBS station. Now they both can say that. Harrisonburg’s WVPT is being consolidated into Commonwealth Public […]