Pumpkin Carving Contest at Carver Recreation Center a Success Over sixty people attended Carver Recreation Center’s first pumpkin carving contest last Friday, October 25. Participants helped twenty pumpkins transform into cats, ghosts, and monsters at the event. “We had some very creative designs. Our winner in the family category was a pumpkin that got a […]
Pumpkin Carving Contest at Carver Recreation Center a Success Over sixty people attended Carver Recreation Center’s first pumpkin carving contest last Friday, October 25. Participants helped twenty pumpkins transform into cats, ghosts, and monsters at the event. “We had some very creative designs. Our winner in the family category was a pumpkin that got a […]
Our Education Beat coverage is the result of a partnership with Charlottesville Tomorrow. For the third straight year, school enrollment in Charlottesville and Albemarle is on the rise. Seven of Charlottesville’s nine schools grew, bringing the division total to 4,085 students—the first time the division’s enrollment has broken the 4,000-student threshold in the last six […]
Each week, C-VILLE’s Green Scene page takes a look at local environmental news. The section’s bulletin board has information on local green events and keeps you up to date on statewide happenings. Got an event or a tip you’d like to see here and in the paper? Write us at news@c-ville.com. Fall feathers: The Monticello […]
Cale Jaffe is the Director of the Virginia Office of the Southern Environmental Law Center, a nonprofit leveraging the power of the law to protect the environment of the Southeast. www.southernenvironment.org. Both President Obama and Governor McDonnell have highlighted “all-of-the-above” energy policies, suggesting that coal, natural gas, onshore wind, offshore wind, solar energy, nuclear power, biomass, […]
It may be nearly 13 years since he left the Oval Office, but Bill Clinton can still pack an auditorium. On Wednesday, October 30, Clinton arrived at the Paramount Theater on the Downtown Mall to stump for Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor. With only six days before the election, Clinton, McAuliffe and […]
Here’s an interesting fact for you to chew on (courtesy of Geoffrey Skelley, posting on Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball blog): The last time an independent candidate came even slightly close to winning Virginia’s governorship was way back 1973, when Henry Howell came within 1.5 percentage points of besting Republican Mills Godwin. The confluence of events […]
Seven stories above the “Coming summer 2009” sign that’s still plastered above a boarded-up ground floor entryway of what was to be the Landmark Hotel, a splash of colorful graffiti blooms across a bare concrete ceiling. It’s not the only street art to grace the unfinished building that looms over Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall. Somebody’s tagged the inside of […]
Check c-ville.com daily and pick up a copy of the paper Wednesday for the latest Charlottesville and Albemarle news. Child struck, killed by vehicle A 6-year-old city girl died after being struck by a vehicle on Nelson Drive in North Downtown near McIntire Road, according to Charlottesville Police spokesperson Lieutenant Ronnie Roberts. The child, a […]
That “dead end” sign posted at the Second Street SE entrance to the Ix building off Elliott Avenue? Ignore it and come on through! The 17-acre commercial property two blocks south of the Downtown Mall, bordered by Elliott and Monticello avenues, is now an owner-sanctioned shortcut that can help Mall-bound Downtown drivers avoid rush hour […]
The man arrested on child pornography charges relating to the October 18 disappearance of a Dunlora teen, who was found safe less than 12 hours after she vanished, was denied bond in Albemarle Charlottesville Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court on Monday, October 28. Jonathan Lee Messer was arrested on October 23—his 24th birthday—in an incident […]