Due to a reporting error in last week’s cover story, we mistakenly stated that a former Country Vintner employee directs J.W. Sieg’s wine import and distribution business. Derek Robinson, formerly of the Country Vintner, is a wine consultant for J.W. Sieg, but the business is under the direction of J.W. Sieg Vice President Smith Williams. […]
Due to a reporting error in last week’s cover story, we mistakenly stated that a former Country Vintner employee directs J.W. Sieg’s wine import and distribution business. Derek Robinson, formerly of the Country Vintner, is a wine consultant for J.W. Sieg, but the business is under the direction of J.W. Sieg Vice President Smith Williams. […]
Less than a year into her new job as the dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Meredith Woo was asked a hard question. While talking to undergraduate students on Grounds, a freshman wanted to know how the College would be different in 15 years. “And I thought about it. It […]
“Funding has been a problem here for years,” says Ph.D. candidate John Burke. “I think the word is getting out to other colleges."
Just a few weeks after a court denied the Coalition to Preserve McIntire Park’s first injunction to stop the Meadowcreek Parkway, the group is stepping out again to protest another City Council vote.
In early March, Albemarle resident and retired IBM vice president of human resources Cynthia Neff, announced her intention to run for Delegate for the 58th District. In November, Neff, a Democrat, will challenge four-term Republican Rob Bell for his seat in the General Assembly. Going up against a four-term incumbent is not easy, but Cynthia […]
Plans to convert the Blue Ridge Tunnel into a hiking trail through Afton Mountain may have gotten a boost April 3, when Representative Tom Perriello asked the House Appropriations Committee to earmark $4.36 million for the project in fiscal year 2010. To construct the Blue Ridge Tunnel, which could see new life as a walking […]
The Landmark Hotel will not languish alone: The north side of the 100 block of E. Main Street, which is owned by Keith Woodard and has long been boarded up and seemingly empty
Carly Gullickson, who at 22 is a 12-year veteran of the game, returns a ball during a marathon match against Lindsay Lee-Waters in the semifinals of the Boyd Tinsley Women’s $50,000 Pro Tennis Championships at Boar’s Head last weekend. Lee-Waters ultimately took the trophy, defeating Ekaterina Bychkova in the finals. Out on the clay courts […]
Last night, as we said they would, City Council met to review the Mall rebricking project. Here’s what we came away with.
If you’re anything like us (and honestly, our condolences if you are), you probably spend way too much time following the vagaries and vicissitudes of Virginia’s preening political class. And if you’ve been watching closely over the past few weeks — while completely ignoring that insignificant little thing we call real life—you could be excused […]