Funds to stay at the YMCA

 Last week, members of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors sent a March 15 work session on the capital improvements budget into a two-day, sudden death overtime scramble. And, a month out from an April 24 meeting between city and county officials proposed by Delegate David Toscano, Team Albemarle may yet find itself competing against […]

Green thumbs for hire

Blue Ridge Backyard Harvest Matt Bierce, Guinevere Higgins, Mike Parisi 806-6157 info@blueridgebackyard.com Free initial site assessment and esti-mate. Installation, design, maintenance and consultation fees vary depending on project type and scale.    C’Ville Foodscapes Angel Shockley, Kassia Arbabi, Patrick Costello, Sam Pierceall, Sky Blue and Wendy Roberman 806-6255 info@cvillefoodscapes.com Simple lawn transformation (sod re-moval, tilling […]

Taylor Swift; John Paul Jones Arena; Saturday, March 20

 Andrea Swift listened to Def Leppard when she was pregnant and, 20 years later, her daughter knows a thing or two about pouring on the sugar. Taylor Swift whips her blonde mane around like Def singer Joe Elliott, and once swapped lyrics with the Lep on “Hysteria,” a song written more than two years before […]

City plays pick-up sticks

Limbs collected: Approximately 400 loads, or 12,000 cubic yards* Manpower: 12 in-house employees and 3 contract drivers Time spent so far: 10 hours a day, 5 days a week, 3 weeks total Vehicles used: 7 dump trucks, 2 knuckleboom trucks, 4 pickup trucks Additional equipment used: 2 chainsaws Time needed for project completion: 4 weeks […]

Amusement Pride

Dear Ace: What’s up with that carousel at the east end of the Downtown Mall? I’ve never seen another one like it.—Merrily-Going-Around-Charlottesville That’s because, according to New York/London appraisers Masterson-Gurr-Johns Inc., the little blue carousel on our mall is “the last known kiddy carousel in this country of its type.” The attraction, featuring seven painted […]

Casteen rebukes Attorney General's letter on gays

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli recently slapped second-year University of Virginia student Seth Kaye in the face. Not literally, but Kaye said that was how he felt when he awoke to an e-mail outlining a letter Cuccinelli sent to the state’s public colleges on March 4. READ MORE Click here to read this week’s Odd […]