Many will enter, few will win [March 29]

What did we learn from the 33rd annual Charlottesville Ten Miler? That runners from outside the area are gunning for our local pavement pounders! A record 2,525 runners took off at the start of the race on a chilly, 50-degree morning; the first finisher, 24-year-old Charlie Hurt of Scottsville, crossed the line 51 minutes later. […]

The stuff of legends [March 30]

UVA-baseball-player-turned-Major-League-wunderkind Ryan Zimmerman continues to cement his place in Washington Nationals lore. With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Zimmerman hit a walk-off homer today to give the Nats a win in their first game in their new $661 million stadium. “There’s something about him,” said Zimmerman’s teammate, Dmitri Young, in an ESPN.com […]

That Hemings matter again [March 31]

In today’s installment of his This Land column in The New York Times, Dan Barry visits Monticello to investigate everyone’s favorite local race-related conundrum—the relationship of Thomas Jefferson to his slave Sally Hemings.

Gunman fires at vehicles on I-64 [March 27]

Interstate-64 between exit 118 in Charlottesville and exit 96 in Waynesboro was closed for several hours this morning, as police investigated a shooting in which two people were wounded, and up to four cars may have been hit by gunfire, according to NBC29.

Bamboozled

Dear Ace: What is the story behind the Bamboo House on Route 29N? Every time we go by, there are only one or two cars, and it seems a little shady. Do they actually serve food there, or is something else going on?—Skip T. Cal Skip: Ace is a grown man and, as such, he […]