Last week, as part of a spending reduction plan to meet a $974 million shortfall in the current fiscal year, Governor Tim Kaine announced that the state would cut 7 percent of its contribution to UVA, which comes to $10.6 million. “We had planned for 15 percent as the Governor asked us to,” says Colette […]
Last week, as part of a spending reduction plan to meet a $974 million shortfall in the current fiscal year, Governor Tim Kaine announced that the state would cut 7 percent of its contribution to UVA, which comes to $10.6 million. “We had planned for 15 percent as the Governor asked us to,” says Colette […]
Despite increasing availability of off-Grounds housing due to an increase of 45 percent in units the last three years, students sign leases for the next academic year as early as October,
The financial markets are reeling, some universities have found their funds frozen,
The UVA Health System has announced a change in vendor policy that effectively bans all gifts, meals and promotional items that are given to UVA employees by those companies that work closely with University staff. Principally, that means pharmaceutical reps. The ban, which went into effect on October 1, prohibits hospital and School of Medicine […]
Haley Ferrell Age: 20 Hometown: Richlands, Virginia Year: Junior Majors: Sports medicine, kinesiology Haley Ferrell What’s in your backpack? Umbrella, travel coffee mug, swimsuit, shorts, t-shirt, flip-flops, 19-month day planner, Strauss and Wagner sheet music, anatomy notes, notebook, four pens, an eraser, three pencils, half of a cinnamon raisin bagel wrapped in a paper […]
As everyone in our area who’s grown excited about the idea of self-sustainability knows, the time is ripe for an Eat & Drink Annual issue that focuses not only on local fare, but locally produced fare. Click through the features below and get the economic lowdown on some local farms, discover which local coffee shop […]
Rice Hall Blue Moon Diner Spaghetti Squash and Leek Pancakes 1 spaghetti squash, roasted 2 leeks, washed, julienned and lightly fried 4 eggs 1 cup cream 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1/2 tsp. allspice 2 Tbs. sugar 1 Tbs. salt Cut spaghetti squash in half and roast open side up at 425 degrees until […]
We know many of you want to eat as local and seasonal as possible. Like us, however, you may open your weekly CSA box with a bit of dread, thinking you couldn’t possibly eat another zucchini or bunch of greens that week. Or maybe you just stare into the box in puzzlement, thinking to yourself, […]
Many of us pick up boxes of vegetables from our CSA shares every week, but how many pick up bottles of milk? If CSAs are all the rage, then herd share operations, giving shareholders a cut of weekly fresh milk production, are a whole different animal. A rising tide of market demand for raw milk […]
We might be swimming in tomatoes, but Virginia-grown rice is consigned to the realm of the imagination. Kathryn Faulkner explains why certain foods just don’t come from here. Dairy. As the milk industry grows more consolidated (Dean Foods now owns Shenandoah’s Pride), only a couple of local retailers sell dairy products straight from local farms: […]