ZONING COST COMPARISON Rezoning 9 acres Compare to: Oakleigh Farm In Albemarle County: $1,020 Proposed increase to: $2,500 Difference of: $1,480 Percentage fee increase: 145% In Charlottesville: $1,500 In Fluvanna: $750 In Greene: $2,882 In Stafford: $12,978 Rezoning 270 acres Compare to: North Pointe In Albemarle County: $1,570 Proposed increase to: $3,500 Difference […]
ZONING COST COMPARISON Rezoning 9 acres Compare to: Oakleigh Farm In Albemarle County: $1,020 Proposed increase to: $2,500 Difference of: $1,480 Percentage fee increase: 145% In Charlottesville: $1,500 In Fluvanna: $750 In Greene: $2,882 In Stafford: $12,978 Rezoning 270 acres Compare to: North Pointe In Albemarle County: $1,570 Proposed increase to: $3,500 Difference […]
A day before Morgan Harrington’s family held a memorial service for their daughter at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Roanoke, Virginia State Police called a press conference to plead for any local residents with intimate knowledge of Anchorage Farm and the North Garden area to come forward. READ MORE News Analysis: John Paul Jones must […]
Whatever happened to the All-American City, the Best Place to Live, the Best Place to Relocate, Tree City USA, the place—when I first moved here for graduate school in the 1970s—that soothed my heart, gave me life, and healed my soul? READ MORE Police urge locals to speak up about location Family and friends of […]
MORE COVERAGE RELATED TO MORGAN HARRINGTON: Virginia State Police releases new phone number for tips Morgan Harrington’s death officially ruled a homicide Morgan Harrington’s Pantera t-shirt found near 15th Street? Reward money in Harrington case not rewarded David Bass describes finding body that is likely Morgan Harrington [with video] Anchorage Farm body, still unidentified, found […]
Hey Ace: Have you seen those peculiar timepieces —the ones with the animated sun and moon circling around the screen—that have been popping up around the Downtown Mall? My little girl found a kid-sized version in one of the Virginia Discovery Museum play zones, and later I spotted another one in the Bank of America […]
All things considered, Virginia’s minty fresh new governor Bob McDonnell had about as good a first few weeks as any pearly toothed pol could ask for. He gave a platitude-filled, well-received inauguration speech, threw himself a million-dollar party, and then settled into his big comfy governor’s chair and got down to the business of reversing […]
On a recent weekend night in Belmont, a group of four people stroll along Hinton Avenue on the way back to their SUV. Two women sport Burberry trench coats and designer scarves, and carry Coach handbags, while their male counterparts wear wool blend peacoats, ranger dark wash jeans and designer loafers or Terra Plana shoes. […]
It takes a gifted writer to charm centuries of academics and audiences alike with what are essentially dung jokes aimed at con artists.
F.J. McMahon’s exhausted yet intense murmur was not bred in ’60s folk clubs but in Vietnam, where his tour of duty did not inspire him to write songs boiling with rage. Singing as if from a distant dimension surrounded only by discreet drums and dual guitars, McMahon instead recreates the state of mind of a […]
More than 100 days after 20-year-old Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington was spotted on the Copeley Road Bridge