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.
CTS savors prospect of a new base, finally
Now that we’re all accustomed to having a LEED-gold-certified transit center at one end of the Downtown Mall, we’ll be getting a second LEED-gold-certified bus facility to go with it. […]
Credit cads
Dear Ace: I have been trying to get my “annual free credit report” online. All the links seem to want money or sell me services I do not want or […]
Correction from the March 3 issue
A sidebar with the feature story in the March issue of Abode misstated the name of a partner in the River’s Edge development. He is Chris Hays. Also, the sidebar […]
Free blacks remembered at South Lawn
“The site was discovered by accident in the 1990s, when the University was planning to expand the former B1 parking lot”
Twenty years of local news and art in the spotlight
We’re now into the third month of our highly selective tour through the past two decades of local news and arts in C-VILLE. Already, we’ve touted our early jump on […]
First Street Church nears groundbreaking
It’s been almost two years since Hollywood director and UVA grad Tom Shadyac purchased the 1839 church that sits on the corner of First and Market streets with the intention […]
Will Obama mortgage plan have local impact?
In the first quarter of 2008, the Federal Reserve estimated there were almost 55 million mortgages nationally worth $10 trillion.
Who’s really wasting ratepayer money?
The agenda said the nearly two dozen people gathered at a long table in City Space on March 3 from the four local boards that control the water supply were […]
Saturday night fighting in Fluvanna
To knock a man out takes a combination of strength, precision and luck. You have to hit him in the right place, and if you do he’ll go down, no […]