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More than four years after the Piedmont Family YMCA inked deals with the city and Albemarle County that would allow the group to build a permanent facility in McIntire Park…

Memorial Day is a day to remember people who have died serving the country. It’s not a veterans’ holiday, but veterans do more of that kind of remembering than the rest of us, so it hits them differently.

Look, we understand that our beloved Virginia has long been one of America’s most schizophrenic states.

BULLETIN BOARD Radioactive sunshine: Governor McDonnell’s uranium work group—tasked with studying the potential ups and downs of proposed uranium mining and milling in Southside Virginia—has had its ground rules altered. Now the group is required to allow more opportunities for public input and to make summaries of its findings available throughout the process. Good, but […]

Tom Connaughton (far right), an ESOL teacher at Greenbrier Elementary, leads his students on weekly runs over a section of the Rivanna Trail near the intersection of 29N and the Route 250 Bypass. (Photo by Nick Strocchia) In Charlottesville, we have an approximately 20-mile urban trail system that forms an almost contiguous loop around the […]

For some of us it is the twisted tales that are most meaningful. They prove, by revealing the darker side of humanity to be cautionary, designed to inspire us to be better people.

A battle over spending costs and government priorities played out in Fluvanna last week when the Board of Supervisors made dramatic last-minute budget cuts, slashing funding for schools and services for senior citizens. 

Last year Weschler, a highly successful hedge fund manager, joined the leadership team at Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett’s multi-billion dollar investment company, after winning Buffett’s trust and friendship over a charity lunch date.

Alice Anderson believes that if you want to solve a problem, the first step is shining a light on it.