No. 9: Coran Capshaw
CORAN CAPSHAW Assessed Value: $99 million* Acres: 1,352 Notable holdings: Tiverton Farm in Greenwood, the former ConAgra building in Crozet, former SNL building that is now Red Light Building on […]
No. 10: Douglas Caton
DOUGLAS CATON Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Management Services Corporation MSC Assessed Value: $98 million Acres: 437 Notable holdings: Northwoods at Four Seasons Apartments (310 units), Cambridge […]
Live Arts’ near-perfect Match
In Live Arts’ production of the The Matchmaker, Thornton Wilder offers unexpected advice for the penny pincher in tough economic times: Ladies and fellas, fall in love. The play focuses […]
Freight Train jumps the track
Six Years marks an evolution for Charlottesville’s Old School Freight Train, in which the band leaps from the well-traveled track of “newgrass” onto a blend of pop and traditional music […]
Old McDonnell flies below the radar
You know, when it comes to politics, sometimes it’s good to be invisible. Sure, most elected officials dream of having Barack Obama’s charisma, JFK’s sex appeal, Hillary Clinton’s smarts and […]
Wheel life
Dear Ace: Last week I drove by the McIntire Skate Park and saw grown men and women riding bikes in circles while whacking balls with mallets. What were they doing […]
New HR plan doesn’t dazzle staff
On January 1, the new University Human Resources (HR) plan went into effect.
Twenty years of local news and arts in the spotlight
We’re now almost a quarter of the way through our highly selective tour through the past two decades of local news and arts in C-VILLE. Already, we’ve touted our early […]
History repeats itself as Wal-Mart eyes the Wilderness battlefield
When Gens. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant first met in battle, it was in May 1864, at a site called Wilderness—just 50 miles northeast of Charlottesville. And the […]
Now free, Spivey registers as sex offender
Less than 17 months after being sentenced for sex-related crimes with four of his students, former Charlottesville High School choir director Jonathan Spivey has been freed from jail.