The family of missing UVA second-year Hannah Graham has issued a statement thanking the University community for support and asking for help in finding the 18-year-old girl, whom they say “would not disappear without contacting family and friends.” John and Susan Graham described their daughter as empathetic, highly responsible, and organized. “She loves the University of […]
It started over breakfast tacos. Alan Taylor and Johnny Pritzlaff of Riverbend Development—music mogul Coran Capshaw’s local real estate development company—were digging in one Saturday morning at Beer Run in January, talking about the future of the historic Coca Cola bottling plant at 722 Preston Avenue. The company had recently closed on the old plant, […]
Police are searching for a missing UVA second-year who went missing late Friday night. According to news releases from UVA and the Charlottesville Police Department, Hannah Elizabeth Graham, 18, was last heard from in the early hours of Saturday morning. She’s described as approximately 5’11” tall and slender, with blue eyes, light brown hair, and […]
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 Albemarle County Architectural Review Board meets at 1pm Monday, September 15 in Room […]
Students are back, and with the influx of people needing rides to and from the Corner, business is picking up for local cab drivers after a slow season. But some cabbies are wary of a new kid in town that claims to be a safer, cheaper, easier alternative to taxis. Uber, an app-based ride-sharing service […]
Martha Jefferson Offers Free Spa Day for Expectant Moms, Other Events Martha Jefferson Starr Hill Center will host two spa days as part of its Baby Basics Moms Club, a support group for expectant mothers. The spa days will be Tuesday, September 16, 5:30-7:00pm and Tuesday, September 23, 9:30-11:30am at the Starr Hill Center location in […]
UVA School of Medicine Dean Nancy Dunlap announced yesterday that she will step down at the end of her term in November. Dunlap, who joined the staff in May 2013, arrived at UVA to serve as dean on an interim basis, replacing Dr. Steven DeKosky, a longtime UVA neurologist who held the position from 2007 […]
This year marks C-VILLE’S 25th anniversary, and as such, we’ve been spending a lot of time poring over our archives. For several weeks, most of us on the editorial staff have spent part of every week with our noses buried in the giant hardbound books of newsprint that date to the late ’80s—before some of […]
If UVA third-year Sara Surface has to write a “how I spent my summer vacation” essay at the start of this semester, the gist would be something like this: Helped my school end rape culture. Surface, a global development studies major from Northern Virginia and a student leader with the University’s Sexual Violence Prevention Coalition, […]
This week marks our first-ever pride issue—just in time for Charlottesville’s Pride Festival this weekend. Check out our other feature stories on what it was like to be gay at CHS in the ’90s, on UVA’s lack of gender-neutral housing for trans students, and on the festival itself. To wed, or not to wed? For gay couples […]