What's in your backpack?

Madison Sandy Age: 23 Hometown: Richmond Year: Grad student Concentration: Sociology What’s in your backpack? Birthday card for brother, shredded wheat in Ziploc bag, index cards, notebook, Whose Freedom?: The Battle over America’s Most Important Idea, Eclipse gum, Starbucks gift card, lip balm, cell phone. C-VILLE welcomes news tips from readers. Send them to news@c-ville.com. […]

Day two: Free parking!

There may be a whole slew of walking area blocked off for construction (the 200 block on the west end, the 100 and 300 blocks on the east end)

Deliver spot

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 […]

What's in your backpack?

Sida Png Age: 21 Year: Sophomore Hometown: Nan Jing, China Major: Math What’s in your backpack? Pepperidge Farm butter cookies, wallet, beef flavor Nissin Cup Noodles, empty plastic UVA Bookstore bag, pens, Getting Started with MATLAB 7: A Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers. C-VILLE welcomes news tips from readers. Send them to news@c-ville.com.

Clarification

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?”

Brookwood shores up runaway sediment

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 […]