Dear Ace: Where did the “Venable” in Venable Elementary come from? Doesn’t that word mean you’re really, really old?—Justin A. Child Justin: It is a curious thing, linguistics. Just a few letters and the entire word can change meaning. Of course, it is even more curious, perhaps, that one does not know the origin of […]
Dear Ace: Where did the “Venable” in Venable Elementary come from? Doesn’t that word mean you’re really, really old?—Justin A. Child Justin: It is a curious thing, linguistics. Just a few letters and the entire word can change meaning. Of course, it is even more curious, perhaps, that one does not know the origin of […]
When the Charlottesville Waldorf School moved from Crozet to its new campus off Rio Road in 2007, it left behind an aging building on a nine-acre campus that it occupied for 16 years. Now Albemarle County is trying to decide what to do with the Old Crozet School property and a consultants’ report pegs the […]
Bloomberg.com reported on September 3 that Halsey Minor, a principle investor in the Landmark Hotel, is being sued by Sotheby’s auction house
Local developer Wendell Wood (United Land Corporation) badgered the Board of Supervisors to make an exception for him and fast track a change to his project for the National Ground Intelligence Center. The supervisors told him to wait or show them a contract that proves the space has to be occupied by January.Will Yancey formally […]
Tom Perriello, the Democratic challenger for the Fifth District congressional seat, went on the attack against incumbent Republican Virgil Goode on September 3 during a debate in Danville before a crowd of more than 300. He attacked Goode’s effectiveness as a congressman: “Southside has not been getting its fair slice under Congressman Goode. The numbers […]
Just a few weeks after Governor Tim Kaine announced significant cuts to the budget for the next year, Albemarle County officials are bracing for a shortfall of $4.1 million to the current fiscal year, and county schools will have to absorb a $2.4 million cut. The county Board of Supervisors will meet Wednesday, September 10, […]
In 2003, Greenbrier Elementary School was the first school to start a weekly event called Walking Wednesdays
cap p.17:Palin comparison: “I never attack the person,” Joe Biden said last Thursday in Virginia Beach, “I take issue with ideas,” distancing himself from the pit bull with lipstick that was Sarah Palin at the Republican National Convention. Well, we know Sarah Palin can read a telepromter. According to right-wing Republicans in the tank for […]
My first bike was fiery ruby red with elegant white fringes, a woven basket in front and a high-pitch bell. I remember using it to alert my parents that I was coming or going. I was 5 years old and pedaling on my own for the first time. These days, I am not what you […]
In 1790, Comte Mede de Sivrac of France constructed a new device—wooden wheels held together by a wooden rod. He called it a celerifere. Then, in 1818, Baron von Drais introduced a much-improved two-wheeled vehicle to an audience in Paris. The apparatus sported two in-line wheels but no pedals. The rider of the “hobby horse” […]