Heather Fischer Year: Senior Major: History, with a minor in studies in women and gender Hometown: Warrenton, Virginia What’s in your backpack? Vitaminwater, notebook, laptop, The Nation magazine, Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Heather Fischer Year: Senior Major: History, with a minor in studies in women and gender Hometown: Warrenton, Virginia What’s in your backpack? Vitaminwater, notebook, laptop, The Nation magazine, Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
On the morning of March 30, 2007, Raelyn Alene Balfour set out for her work at the Judge Advocate General’s School next to the UVA law school. First she had to drop her husband off at his job at the National Ground Intelligence Center before then taking her 9-month-old son, Bryce, to his babysitter. After […]
Brown’s Cleaners on Preston says in a lawsuit that they didn’t lose Emily Feiner’s wedding dress, but Ben Feiner submitted a ticket suggesting otherwise. Plaintiff: Emily B. and Benjamin R. Feiner Defendant: Brown’s Dry Cleaners, Inc. What’s at issue: Whether or not a wedding dress was dropped off on May 29. Ben Feiner claims it […]
More features from this issue: When the Latter-day Saints come marching in With a new church on Airport Road and their numbers growing nationwide, local Mormons are unwavering in their faith A lot on his plates How Joseph Smith founded the Mormon Church White and black The Mormon Church struggles to shake the stigma of […]
More features from this issue: When the Latter-day Saints come marching in With a new church on Airport Road and their numbers growing nationwide, local Mormons are unwavering in their faith A lot on his plates How Joseph Smith founded the Mormon Church All in the family The old practice of polygamy still dogs the […]
Due to a reporting error, the story “Hundreds flood Richmond to oppose new coal plant,” said that “According to [Tom] Cormons, the SCC’s decision on the plant isn’t expected for at least two weeks.” The SCC evidentiary hearing begins on February 5 and may last several days. A decision on the power plant isn’t expected […]
Due to reporting errors, last week’s cover story, “Building a history,” contained two misstatements. We said that Jeff Dreyfus designed the Live Arts building. While Dreyfus’ firm, Buschman Dreyfus, designed the building, Jeff Bushman led that team. Also, the former Coca-Cola Bottling Works building on 10th Street NW was converted to four apartments before Bill […]
“If a couple of people wander in two at a time over the course of about seven minutes we can get everyone inside without attracting too much attention,” said Jeff Winder of The People United to the 20 or so protestors drawn around him at the backside of the Omni Hotel.
A giant black backdrop was stretched across the rear of Satellite Ballroom’s stage with a hodge-podge of words scrawled in bright pink, blue and yellow.
After another close loss down in Tallahassee to Florida State, the Hoos were hoping to turn around their fortunes at the John Paul Jones Arena Sunday, January 27 against Georgia Tech. Instead, everyone came away with another case of heartache. Once again, UVA botched a halftime lead, this one 10 points tall, to fall in […]