GOVERNOR Bob McDonnell Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1954. Grew up in Northern Virginia. Education: B.B.A., University of Notre Dame. M.S.B.A., Boston University. M.A./J.D., Regent University School of Law. Political career: – Served 14 years as a representative of the 84th District (Virginia Beach) in the Virginia House of Delegates, starting in 1991. – Co-chair of […]
GOVERNOR Bob McDonnell Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1954. Grew up in Northern Virginia. Education: B.B.A., University of Notre Dame. M.S.B.A., Boston University. M.A./J.D., Regent University School of Law. Political career: – Served 14 years as a representative of the 84th District (Virginia Beach) in the Virginia House of Delegates, starting in 1991. – Co-chair of […]
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 […]