Couric Center going up! [April 12]

CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric attended the groundbreaking of the Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center, the $74 million facility planned for the corner of Jefferson Park Avenue and Lee Street and named for her sister, the late Virginia senator. Couric joined Governor Tim Kaine and UVA President John Casteen for the hour-long, invitation-only event, […]

Red Light lands Roanoke amphitheater deal [April 13]

Roanoke has selected Charlottesville-based Red Light Management to develop and manage an outdoor amphitheater at the former Victory Stadium site. Red Light, a part of Coran Capshaw’s music empire, will be responsible for completing a feasibility study, designing the facility and operating the amphitheater once it’s completed, reported the Roanoke Times. Though Roanoke officials declined […]

Correction from April issue of ABODE

In the April 2008 issue of ABODE, due to an editorial error, the Hot House page contained text referring to the ecoMOD3 project on Fourth Street SW, but the photo shows the ecoMOD1 project on 7 1/2 Street SW. Unlike ecoMOD3, the ecoMOD1 project does not incorporate a pre-existing 19th century building.

Correction from April 1 issue

The Charles Kingrea implicated in a cockfighting ring in Harrisonburg is not a jeweler as erroneously reported in an April 1, 2008, Government News story [“Cockfighting becomes felony”]. Charles Frank Kingrea, owner of C.K. Jewelers, is not the Charles Leo Kingrea of Gordonsville, who is alleged to have operated a retail business at a cockfight. […]

BZA to hear homeless shelter appeal

On Thursday, April 17, 40 to 50 men, women and children will learn from the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals whether their home at Hope Community Center will have to shut its doors. For a little more than four months, the Hope Community Center, run by Josh Bare with his father, Harold, has housed the […]

Picking through your curb-side recycling

When the general manager of the Tidewater Fibre Corp (TFC) recycling facility in Chester stands up in front of 15 visitors and says that 95 percent of the facility’s work is done by manual labor, he is to be believed. Citizens of Charlottesville: Recycling all your plastic, metal and paper may be doing its part […]

City backs federal Department of Peace

What was the line that Claire from “Six Feet Under” uttered about her languishing high school compatriots? “I wish that just once people wouldn’t act like the clichés that they are.” Well, file this resolution from the City of Charlottesville in the Claire Fisher folder: On April 7, City Council passed a resolution supporting the […]

Your tax dollars, at work

Worked for the city for: Two years Resides in: CharlottesvilleJob title: Reading coach at Clark Elementary School. Coyner, who describes herself as an “embedded professional developer,” works with teachers to instruct reading and writing. Her position is federally funded as part of the No Child Left Behind Act. Paula Coyner Best of times: “Working with […]