History repeats itself as Wal-Mart eyes the Wilderness battlefield

When Gens. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant first met in battle, it was in May 1864, at a site called Wilderness—just 50 miles northeast of Charlottesville. And the result of that meeting was some of the bloodiest fighting of the Civil War. The intersection near the proposed site isn’t exactly pristine. There’s already […]

CTS savors prospect of a new base, finally

Now that we’re all accustomed to having a LEED-gold-certified transit center at one end of the Downtown Mall, we’ll be getting a second LEED-gold-certified bus facility to go with it. The new one, a maintenance and operations facility on Avon Street Extended, will be less high-profile. Still, Charlottesville Transit System and city officials want the […]

Credit cads

Dear Ace: I have been trying to get my “annual free credit report” online. All the links seem to want money or sell me services I do not want or need. What gives here? Is one really able to get their free report online for free or is this just another scam to clip you […]

Correction from the March 3 issue

A sidebar with the feature story in the March issue of Abode misstated the name of a partner in the River’s Edge development. He is Chris Hays. Also, the sidebar incorrectly made a connection between the Rivanna Collaborative and the RiverBluff development, which is actually a project of Richard Price, Frank Smith and Jeff Smith.

Twenty years of local news and art in the spotlight

We’re now into the third month of our highly selective tour through the past two decades of local news and arts in C-VILLE. Already, we’ve touted our early jump on the Obama bandwagon (remember, this is the paper that projected DMB’s rise to the top), and this week, in light of recent news from the […]

First Street Church nears groundbreaking

It’s been almost two years since Hollywood director and UVA grad Tom Shadyac purchased the 1839 church that sits on the corner of First and Market streets with the intention of developing a day shelter for area homeless. “It was really neat to see how the town had grown, how the Downtown corridor had come […]

Who’s really wasting ratepayer money?

The agenda said the nearly two dozen people gathered at a long table in City Space on March 3 from the four local boards that control the water supply were there to discuss a set of task force recommendations about maintaining the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir. Hah. As usual, the real issue the city and […]