For the past few years, André Hakes and her partner, Catherine Gillespie, have trooped to the Charlottesville clerk’s office on Valentine’s Day and requested a marriage license. And each time, they’ve been denied that piece of paper that heterosexuals take for granted. This Valentine’s Day, they’re going to both Charlottesville and Albemarle clerks’ offices to […]
For the past few years, André Hakes and her partner, Catherine Gillespie, have trooped to the Charlottesville clerk’s office on Valentine’s Day and requested a marriage license. And each time, they’ve been denied that piece of paper that heterosexuals take for granted. This Valentine’s Day, they’re going to both Charlottesville and Albemarle clerks’ offices to […]
The Albemarle County School Board last week voted 6-1 to send a $164.28 million funding request to the Board of Supervisors. This funding request exceeds anticipated revenues by $6.76 million. Despite the decision to forward the request to the Board of Supervisors, the school board is expecting to make cuts and will now begin to […]
Authorities have confirmed that a body found on Thursday, February 6, in Goochland County near the Fluvanna County line is Kevin W. Quick, the 45-year-old Nelson County man missing since Friday, January 31. In the week since he disappeared after leaving his mother’s Nelson County residence and failing to arrive at his planned Albemarle County […]
Mary Williams Community Center Walking Fundraiser in February This February, the JABA Mary Williams Community Center is hosting a “walk-a-thon” fundraiser at the Jefferson School City Center. Community members, businesses, and organizations can sponsor a senior member’s efforts to reach his or her walking goal for the month. Funds raised will support the activities and […]
Update: 3:17pm According to a report by NBC12 in Richmond, the body of Waynesboro Police Captain Kevin Quick has been found in Goochland this afternoon. Law enforcement from multiple jurisdictions had been searching Louisa County this afternoon for signs of Quick, who left his mother’s house in Afton on Friday, January 31, but never made […]
Regal Cinema’s movie theater monopoly in Charlottesville has ended, and the new kid on the block is planning to serve up something sure to have local cinephiles salivating: a Downtown theater that offers upscale food and cocktails along with indie film fare. William S. Banowsky, Jr., owner of Violet Crown Cinema in Austin, is partnering […]
What do the walls of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, the window sills of New York City’s Rockefeller Center, and Martha Stewart’s kitchen counter have in common? They were all carved out of the ground 25 miles southwest of Charlottesville. Now Alberene, the Schuyler soapstone company whose quarries produced those and countless other pieces over the last […]
“Can your organization really afford to NOT have a high profile presence on VisitCharlottesville, particularly if your competitor does?” That was the sales pitch in an e-mail sent last month to Jody Kielbasa, director of the Charlottesville Film Festival, by an Arizona company called Destination Travel, a contractor hired to push ads on the website […]
Pick up a copy of C-VILLE each Wednesday for the latest stories and news briefs—this week’s are below. Missing Nelson County man Virginia State Police are searching for a Nelson County man who disappeared on Friday, January 31. Forty-five-year-old Kevin Wayne Quick, a reservist captain in the Waynesboro Police Department, left his mother’s house in […]
The Blue Ribbon Commission—a 13-member citizen panel charged with tackling the city schools’ funding woes —predicted a $2 to $4 million funding gap last week during its final report to Charlottesville’s City Council and school board. The report features near- and long-term “action alternatives” local officials could adopt to stem the division’s recent budget shortfalls. […]