Sugar Hollow district renewed
At its meeting last Tuesday, The County Planning Commission voted unanimously to renew the Sugar Hollow Agricultural and Forestal District, near White Hall.
Council approves RWSA easement, Interchange design moves on
After having deferred the decision by one meeting, on Oct. 5 City Council voted to grant the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA)
Estimate discrepancy on dam highlighted
Less than a month ago, the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) unanimously chose Virginia firm Schnabel Engineering Associates to replace Gannett Fleming as the leading designer of a proposed new dam at the Ragged Mountain Reservoir.
University addresses H1N1 preparedness
Though still weeks away from the peak of flu season, the UVA Elson Student Health Center’s running tally of “influenza like illness”
Study seeks stressed and anxious
Has the recession got you anxious? Emotional? Stressed? The UVA psychology department is looking for you, by which we mean Dr. Bethany Teachman, and her group of graduate students. Supported by grants from the UVA Institute on Aging and the Max Planck Network on Aging, Teachman and her team are studying the connection between anxiety […]
UVA team discovers new ring on Saturn
A UVA team of astronomers have discovered a new ring orbiting Saturn. The ring is 13 million kilometers in radius and is the largest planetary ring in the Solar System. After four to six weeks of intense work, a team of UVA scientists discovered a new, tenuous ring on Saturn. “The ring is the smoking […]
Creigh Deeds crawls toward the finish line
There’s little doubt that would-be governor Creigh Deeds is currently stuck between Barack and a hard place. Long known as a genial, gun-lovin’ Democrat, Deeds has been forced to fight his current battle against Bob McDonnell—a slick, well-coiffed conservative Ken doll—well outside his comfort zone. Consider this: In their previous match-up, a hard-fought 2005 campaign […]
Twenty years of local news and arts in the spotlight
We’re 41 weeks into this year-long archive search, and with this issue the theme is musical entertainment. First, what has become the perennial question of which music venues will survive: We asked that last week with the shuttering of Is, just as we pondered it 12 years ago, as Trax started to unravel. Then, the […]
Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records; John Cook, with Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance; Algonquin Books, 289 pages
Fitzgerald said his bit about “no second acts in American lives,” but F. Scott didn’t see Superchunk at the 9:30 Club in 2002. Turns out there are more than second or even third acts; there are also opening acts. Which might explain why, on that particular tour, bandleader Mac McCaughan and his band warmed up […]
Three Notch’d, Thrice Answer’d
Ace, I’ve got a few questions about that Three Notch’d Road historical marker on the east end of the Pedestrian Mall. First, what are the notches? Second, where did the road go? Lastly, who the heck was Jack Jouett, and what “famous ride” of his does the sign refer to?—Scratch’d-Head’d in Charlottesville Listen, my friend, […]