Business park courts Crozetians

At a neighborhood meeting and open house they organized December 9, Will Yancey and his team took another step toward persuading Albemarle County to approve the Yancey Mills Business Park in Crozet. However, much of the neighborhood seemed not to notice.   Previous Coverage: Heavy lifting ahead for light industrial park Will rural area boundary […]

Fredericks' 'berg

Heading into last weekend’s 'Advance'—the annual confab held by the Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) to talk shop, party hearty, and plan strategy for the coming year—current RPV Chairman Jeff Frederick knew that he might be in for a rough ride.

Think global, paint local

On a bright, chilly Monday morning two days before Election Day, Edward Thomas and I stand at the perimeter of the bamboo forest at the corner of Cherry and Ridge in Fifeville, not far from where the 35-year-old painter lives. For 10 minutes, we’ve been tracing the sidewalk, searching for a buried path into the […]

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 […]