A Carol with Charles in charge

Scrooge, Tiny Tim—in some ways we know these characters better than our own family, a phenomenon that presents potential hazards and rewards for any director attempting to

High-salaried Casteen forgoes raise

According to a Chronicle of Higher Education report, public universities raised their presidents’ salaries an estimated 7.6 percent last year. UVA President John Casteen ranked third among all public university presidents with $797,048. The previous year, Casteen made $753,672. His 5.8 percent raise came in a year when in-state tuition increased by more than 8 […]

What's in your backpack?

Evans Finger Age: 19 Year: Sophomore Hometown: Houston, Texas Major: System engineering What’s in your backpack? Headphones, laptop, laptop charger, pencils, planner, calculator, graphing calculator, econ class ticker, various textbooks: Economics; Physics for Engineers and Scientists; Probability and Stochastic Processes: A Friendly Introduction for Electrical and Computer Engineers. C-VILLE welcomes news tips from readers. Send […]

Red dirt alert!

Norcross Station, the railroad warehouse turned chic apartment complex, is prepping to add a third building. R.E. Lee & Sons have been clearing the strip of land between Garrett Street and the Norcross Station parking lot since the end of November. Rick Jones, of R.E. Lee, says they have begun pouring concrete, and estimates that […]

Synthetic fields: unsafe at any speed?

The county Board of Supervisors couldn’t make a decision about the safety of synthetic turf at their December 3 meeting. The Board was asked to give $225,000 to aid the county schools’ replacement of natural grass on three high school stadium fields, but Board members were uneasy green lighting the project without concrete data on […]

RWSA: Past chair wants job back

City Council faces a very political decision this week as it interviews and selects the chair of the board of the local water and waste authority. Seven have applied for the position, which is the only citizen representative on a five-person board that makes decisions for the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) and the […]

Your tax dollars at work

Job title: Training and accreditation supervisor for the Emergency Communications Center. Wade trains the folks who handle all of our emergencies, and keeps our area on the cutting edge. Worked for the county for: 24 years Resides in: Fluvanna County Best of times: Receiving national accreditation. “I spent two-and-a-half years working to have our department […]