Anybody who came to the County Office Building January 23 for the fireworks went away disappointed—but those who came to keep the Board of Supervisors from messing with their “property rights” went home at least somewhat relieved.
Anybody who came to the County Office Building January 23 for the fireworks went away disappointed—but those who came to keep the Board of Supervisors from messing with their “property rights” went home at least somewhat relieved.
Dear Ace: A few months ago, I was called for jury duty. I didn’t want to go, but took the suggested amount of time off work anyway. When I showed up, it was cancelled! I was thrilled, but a few weeks later a notice showed up in the mail asking me to serve again. What […]
How many soldiers are dead in the Culpeper National Cemetery? Answer: All of them! As of 2006, the number of interments at the Culpeper veterans cemetery totaled more than 10,000 across roughly 30 acres and, with a total of nearly 737,000 veterans in the state, more than a few will buy the farm within a […]
Undocumented workers aren’t likely to speak up in public places where their legal status can be readily questioned, so they’re not likely to speak out against the plethora of bills in the state General Assembly that would make their lives more miserable. That’s where Tim Freilich, director for the Legal Aid Justice Center’s Immigrant Advocacy […]
The Associated Press reported today that Virginia corn, soybean and cotton crops suffered a decline in production in 2007.
Fifeville residents living along King and Grove streets had better get used to the idea of even heavier traffic on their one way roads during rush hour.
“Since 1983, the people in Woolen Mills have been trying to establish a national historic district,” says photographer Bill Emory. In 2006, he started a nonprofit for just such a reason and a correlating website, HistoricWoolenMills.org. That year, he also began to look into a piece of property that sits west and stretches back south […]
C-VILLE’s long been reporting on the possibility of a nine-story building at 600 E. Water St., on the site of the C&O parking lot next to the old railroad depot, and it now appears that the project is coming close to earning its preliminary site plan approvals. Rich folks will have another option to buy […]
C-VILLE thought that rural area protections would be a high priority for the new Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, and we were right: Amended versions of ordinances to restrict family subdivisions, driveways on steep slopes and building near streams will be the subject of a work session Wednesday, January 23. Now that he has Biscuit […]
Sandeep Dias filed suit against his former employer, Milan Restaurant, on January 9, seeking an award of monetary damages and declaratory relief on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated. In his complaint, filed by the Virginia Legal Aid Justice Center, Dias charges that the Indian restaurant, specifically owner Charanjeet Ghotra, failed to pay […]