words Longtime readers of The Virginia Quarterly Review are aware that almost every issue sticks to a pattern: an opening series of articles about some of the political hot spots around the world, followed by an array of literary essays and criticism, art, fiction and poetry. It’s like listening to an hour of National Public […]
words Longtime readers of The Virginia Quarterly Review are aware that almost every issue sticks to a pattern: an opening series of articles about some of the political hot spots around the world, followed by an array of literary essays and criticism, art, fiction and poetry. It’s like listening to an hour of National Public […]
Dear Ace: I have three young children and we have hit every playground in the area. When I was young, instead of playgrounds, we had swings and see-saws. Where have all the see- saws gone? Have there been too many head injuries or what?—Noah Fun Noah: When Ace was young (well, younger), oh how he […]
Due to a production error, the subject of the picture accompanying the article “Deeds explains early election launch” in last week’s Government News section was misidentified as Brian Moran. The picture is of Brian’s older brother, Jim. We apologize for the confusion.
Brent Tamura was born a full-grown man on January 15, 2007, tall and muscular with tan skin and a thickly knotted head of black hair. He is a Capricorn by birth, his ambition and practicality tempered by an occasional shyness.
There was a time in the not-too-distant past that a developer could stand in front of the county Board of Supervisors or the city’s Planning Commission, tout his or her project’s green-building designs and ride the environmentally feel-good wave all the way to approval. That time may be beginning to pass. The revolution of green-building […]
A week before Christmas, Springridge (part of Forest Lakes) resident Denise Wall was looking out the back window of her house into a creek at the bottom of the hill. To her horror, a trapper waist deep in the water was removing two dead beavers. He carried the beavers by their tails out of the […]
The Compton House, a.k.a. the former Beta Theta House, is now but a pile of rubble. Yet though its driveway is now a road to nowhere, the Thomas Jefferson Scholars Foundation sees this as a road to knowledge. Architecture firm VMDO is designing a 22,000-square-foot center to accommodate a growing number of graduate student fellowships. […]
Wendell Wood has at last gotten a lease for 40,000 square feet of rental space to be used by the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC), a lease he has long been hoping for (and which he suggested to the county Board of Supervisors in August was all but guaranteed). On November 30, the U.S. General […]
She was just there to attend a rummage sale. On July 2, 2005, Violet Seabolt was making her way up a wooden public access ramp to enter the Scottsville Community Center in Dorrier Park.
For previous coverage of NGIC, click here. The National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) is a top secret U.S. Army military installation mounted on a hillside off 29N. As such, it is technically federal property, so that if you were to get into a fender bender, for instance, while winding up Boulder’s Road towards the center […]