In 2006, the Charlottesville Parks and Recreation Department found the swimming facility at Meade Park, Onesty Pool, to be “beyond the point of cost-effective repair.” It would need to be fully replaced. Maybe having learned from previous park projects (read Meadowcreek Parkway, McIntire softball fields), the city has gone out of its way to […]
In the past year, the UVA School of Architecture has lost key faculty members and its dean, but last week, President John Casteen announced the appointment of Kim Tanzer as the school’s new leader. Kim Tanzer Tanzer, a professor at the University of Florida, will succeed Karen Van Lengen, who served as dean for 10 […]
With the theme of “Globalization and The Post American/Flat World,” the Semester at Sea program will sail off for its 100th voyage this fall. The very first voyage for the Semester at Sea program sailed off on September 18, 1926. The voyage lasted for 7 and a half months covering 41,000 miles and visiting […]
This past weekend marked the University of Virginia’s 180th Final Exercises. UVA President John Casteen awarded 6,280 degrees to the excited graduates. One thing the graduates didn’t expect was inclement weather. A constant drizzle of rain washed over the Lawn, but the decision was made to keep the ceremony out in the open. According […]
When David and Holli Traud moved into their house in Keswick last May, it had the clean, safe feeling of a brand-new building, complete with white picket fence
Bob Fenwick, founder of www.savemcintire.com and member of the Coalition to Preserve McIntire Park, has announced he will be running for City Council as an Independent.
When it comes to regional transit, what the General Assembly gives with one hand, it takes away with the other. This year the Assembly passed legislation to permit Charlottesville and Albemarle County to create a Regional Transit Authority, yet simultaneously denied the RTA the option of raising money through an increase in the local sales […]
An hour before the convening of the county’s Democratic caucus on May 11, the two candidates for the Board of Supervisors from the Samuel Miller District—pharmacist Madison Cummings and architect Lucia Phinney—stood in the foyer of the County Office Building and watched as Albemarle Democratic Committee Chair Fred Hudson fingered a silver dollar he was […]
Dear Ace, What’s up with the Buckingham Branch train (which has, like, a total of five cars) which is forever parked on the tracks in front of the Transit Center? I get a lungful of diesel nearly every day I walk across the bridge on Avon Street…That’s how often the thing is sitting there idly […]
Lenin returning triumphantly to Finland Station. Napoleon plotting his phoenix-like second act from the Isle of Elba.