Less than two hours after a federal appeals court denied a request to delay its ruling that Virginia’s gay marriage ban is unconstitutional, Charlottesville Circuit Court Clerk Llezelle Dugger had heard from a score of city couples asking when they could get legally married. “Between e-mail, my phone, and my cell, I’m up to 20,” she said. […]
Less than two hours after a federal appeals court denied a request to delay its ruling that Virginia’s gay marriage ban is unconstitutional, Charlottesville Circuit Court Clerk Llezelle Dugger had heard from a score of city couples asking when they could get legally married. “Between e-mail, my phone, and my cell, I’m up to 20,” she said. […]
“Virginia is for lovers, not pipelines.” “You shall not pass.” “Humpback wails over pipelines.” The gauntlet of signage on the sidewalk outside Nelson Middle School Tuesday evening ahead of the community’s first public meeting with representatives from Dominion Resources made the sentiments of hundreds of local residents clear: They don’t want to see the company […]
We don’t know exactly what the Route 29 of the future is going to look like, but we do know changes are coming fast—too fast for some business owners who fear the isolating effects of construction and new traffic patterns. The latest timeline for the first slate of projects was at the center of the […]
The deal is done. On Tuesday, August 12, Main Street Arena and Yellow Cab of Charlottesville owner Mark Brown completed his purchase of all shares of the Charlottesville Parking Center, the for-profit entity that owns and/or operates two downtown parking garages and one lot. “I felt that CPC owned assets that were important to the future […]
Spectra Energy has suspended efforts to build a $4 billion, 427-mile natural gas pipeline through Virginia, a spokesman confirmed this week. The Houston-based company was one of three so far this year to float proposals for gas pipelines cutting through the Commonwealth. Its pipeline would transport fracked gas from Pennsylvania to North Carolina, skirting Albemarle […]
The Virginia Quarterly Review hosted its first-ever writers’ conference last week, a four-day retreat at the Boar’s Head full of workshops and public panels with a host of big names in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including Atlantic editor Scott Stossel, journalist and short story writer Wells Tower, Pulitzer-prize winning poet Claudia Emerson, Slate senior editor […]
Each week, the news team takes a look at upcoming meetings and events in Charlottesville and Albemarle we think you should know about. Consider it a look into our datebook, and be sure to share newsworthy happenings in the comments section. The Charlottesville Planning Commission meets from 5:30-9pm Tuesday, August 12 in Council chambers at […]
If there’s one issue absolutely guaranteed to drive social conservatives crazy, it’s the rapidly shifting status of same-sex marriage in America. Once thought so powerful a political weapon that Republicans used it (to great effect) to help increase GOP turnout in the 2004 presidential election, marriage equality has now reached a level of acceptance—in both […]
Besides the obvious, what’s the difference between a barn full of cows and a barn full of wedding guests? Albemarle County is trying to pin down the answer in the wake of a state code change by the General Assembly that aimed to make it easier for farm owners to hold events. But a month […]
UPDATE, 10am Thursday, August 7: State police have confirmed that two people have now died following the five-vehicle crash Wednesday morning. According to police spokeswoman Corinne Geller, a flatbed tractor trailer sparked the collision when it rear-ended a Nissan Pathfinder. The Pathfinder was pushed into a Lincoln Town Car. During the pileup, a Chevrolet Suburban […]