This spring, high school athletes in Albemarle County Public Schools will receive a belated Christmas gift from an anonymous donor and county supervisors: state of the art synthetic field turf for the football fields. Thousands of students will walk, run and fall on that surface while playing football, field hockey, soccer or lacrosse. Though each […]
“Unemployment insurance claims can now be filed by telephone. Call 1-866-832-2363. It’s easy, trouble-free and so convenient!” says a flyer advertising the Virginia Employment Commission’s (VEC) filing hotline. I dial. “Due to heavy call volume, wait times will be longer than normal…. To expedite the claim process, you may file your claim online. If you […]
Virginia is one of only two states, along with Kentucky, that do not automatically restore voting rights to felons who have served their time.
After 11 years as the executive director and CEO of UVA’s Patent Foundation, Robert MacWright has resigned.
A late UVA rally kept Virginia Tech’s 78-75 victory in Blacksburg from being a slam dunk, but a loss is still a loss. With conference play now in full swing, UVA men’s basketball team (7-6, 1-1 ACC) has to find some swagger to run with the fast-paced Tar Heels of North Carolina when they […]
In 2005, Ridge Schuyler, then piedmont program director at The Nature Conservancy, was talking to former Albemarle County watershed manager
The following responses are bonus material from this article. C-VILLE: Why should city ratepayers care about restoring the Moormans River? Ridge Schuyler: This is a water supply plan. It’s not a Moormans restoration plan. It meets the 50-year needs of this community, much as the South Fork met our needs for almost 50 years when […]
Good morning, fellow brick watchers! The sun is shining, the air is crisp, and the bricks are still coming up one by one.
So many things to share with you about bricks, so little reason to devote an entire blog post to each of them.