Dear Ace: The Shoppes of Clover Lawn is a shop-ping center on Rockfish Gap in Crozet. Why do the businesses in that area, including Blue Ridge Builders Supply across the street, have Charlottesville addresses and not Crozet ones? —Biff Clavin Biff: Bear with Ace, because the answer to this question may be slow going. But […]
Dear Ace: The Shoppes of Clover Lawn is a shop-ping center on Rockfish Gap in Crozet. Why do the businesses in that area, including Blue Ridge Builders Supply across the street, have Charlottesville addresses and not Crozet ones? —Biff Clavin Biff: Bear with Ace, because the answer to this question may be slow going. But […]
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Handed the giant lemon of a recession, Charlottesville’s Planning Commission hopes to squeeze lemonade.
The inside headline for last week’s cover story, “City missteps,” is inadvertently misleading, as it implies that the story contains more criticisms than questions about the city’s Downtown Mall rebricking project. The inside headline should have been the same one that appeared on the cover, “City misstep?”
“I think we are all attuned to the fact that people from different racial backgrounds experience Charlottesville differently,”
After a 2008 season that gave new meaning to the word “uneven,” not to mention “maddening,” UVA football Head Coach Al Groh is adding some new blood to his staff.
Off Fifth Street, about 30 new homes and twice as many townhouses in the Brookwood subdivision cling to the slopes overlooking Rock Creek. Earlier this year, dirt and construction debris washed downhill across the Rivanna Trail and into the creek, but Southern Development has apparently addressed the problem. Brookwood entered the fifth of six construction […]
Let’s be honest with each other, Charlottesville: The only thing that a “new year” means is that your old calendar is no good. When you peel the shrink wrap from your new 2009 Desk or Wall Calendar—decorated with pictures of Labrador puppies or Batman or swimsuit models—you’ll have 365 small, white boxes to fill with […]
Roughly 2 million years ago, the human brain underwent a tremendous growth spurt,
Dear Ace: When they make the snow at Wintergreen, where does all the water come from, and how does it get onto the slopes? I’ve read some unsavory things about the water used in snow making at other ski slopes.—Dwight Stuff Dwight: Ace works on a pretty low budget here at the C-VILLE office, so […]