With the local elections less than a week away, C-VILLE asked candidates to speak directly to readers. GO TO: • Charlottesville City Council • Albemarle Board of Supervisors • Charlottesville City Sheriff • Charlottesville School Board • Albemarle School Board • 57th and 58th District in the House of Delegates We gave every candidate in […]
With the local elections less than a week away, C-VILLE asked candidates to speak directly to readers. GO TO: • Charlottesville City Council • Albemarle Board of Supervisors • Charlottesville City Sheriff • Charlottesville School Board • Albemarle School Board • 57th and 58th District in the House of Delegates We gave every candidate in […]
The events surrounding the 1995 Million Man March confirmed for Gwendolyn Whiting that her training as a dialogue facilitator needed to continue.
A line on a map, representing a road not likely to be built for decades, has nonetheless become a political hot potato in Albemarle.
Welcome to the 42nd week of our year-long trip through two decades of C-VILLE archives. Here is your table. Here is your napkin.
Dear Ace: The fall is here, and the leaves are starting to turn. It‘s putting me in a real circle-of-life, survival-of-the-fittest kind of mood. Ace, what is the most prevalent tree in Virginia? I want to plant one in my yard, to teach my sons how to be stronger and more prolific than their rivals.—Eugene […]
Read up and drink it up: • eggs • peppers • goats • apples • tomatoes • cucumbers • peaches • goat cheese • microgreens • beer • wine • take-out For many, many reasons—for the good of our communities, our environment, our bodies—our food intake should start with the local produce, meats and […]
‘‘We’d like to get an egg a day out of everybody,” says Kathryn Bertoni. “ That would be a 100 percent lay rate.” From happy hens to their hands: Cathryn and Michael Bertoni offer their CSA subscribers egg shares from their free-range flock. After six years of operating Appalachia Star Farm, which offers “egg shares” […]
The old adage says that patience is a virtue, but then so is drinking a wine when it’s in its prime. Here are five Virginia wines ready for the glass. Shop the City Market, plan a meal, phone some dear friends, pull up an Adirondack chair, and savor the simple pleasures of another beautiful fall […]
With four local breweries already established, Charlottesville has been carving out a brew trail amid its grapevines: It started with Starr Hill, where Mark Thompson has been brewing national award-winning beverages since the early ’90s. Now with a tasting room in Crozet and a recent distribution deal with Anheuser-Busch, this local favorite is bound to […]
Money Magazine has named Charlottesville one of the top 50 places to start a small business. Additionally, Charlottesville was ranked 19th among small cities in the country. It was the only Virginia locality on the list. Much of the success of small ventures is due, according to Money, to UVA’s Darden School of Business, to […]