Mere weeks before the auction that will convey Patricia Kluge’s wine empire to the highest bidders, 20 former employees of the Kluge Estate Winery & Vineyard continue to maintain the foreclosed property’s vines and facilities. The workers, says winery employee Tim Rausse, are touching up everything from a 34,000-square-foot carriage house to an unglamorous “modular […]
According to city staff, Minor owes Charlottesville a whopping $84,351.68 in real estate taxes.
In January, when Fifth District Republican Congressman Robert Hurt opened his new Charlottesville office, Jefferson Area Tea Party (JATP) Chair Carole Thorpe told C-VILLE that the group planned to turn from the federal government to local issues. Representatives of the local tea party, part of the national swell of groups calling for reduced government oversight, […]
In 2008, Mark Warner was elected to the U.S. Senate, and Cantor suddenly discovered that he wasn’t the only pair of chiseled cheekbones and Chiclets-perfect choppers on the Hill.
Fifty years ago, John Kennedy’s first 100 days as president were drawing to a close and his approval ratings topped 80 percent
Just how long has Debbie Ryan coached UVA women’s basketball team? Thirty-four years.
On February 13, 2008, Carmello “Pee Wee” Martinez was sentenced to four years in prison for his role in a shooting that left a local 16-year-old in critical condition. Reportedly a member of the Bloods street gang, Martinez had pursued an argument from the Herman Key Recreation Center on Market Street to the Blue Ridge […]
This year, about 40 immigration-related bills were introduced in the General Assembly that would have affected undocumented immigrants and their families.
A long-awaited development slated for the corner of Hydraulic Road and Route 29 North in Albemarle County is officially ready for construction. The Shops at Stonefield—the 1.2 million square-foot development formerly known as Albemarle Place —will break ground in the coming months, according to its developer, Edens & Avant. However, a formal date has not […]
The rotten awning on Ophelia Wells’ Fifeville home was patched last fall. In two months, repair crews organized and operated by AHIP—the Albemarle Housing Improvement Program—installed a new roof and siding. They also resolved plumbing and electrical problems and conducted a lead paint abatement program inside the house. The cost? Roughly $55,000—not an unusual cost […]