Change is afoot [January 10]
The New Year is already bringing some changes to the local political and educational landscape.
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Change is afoot [January 10]
Lucy leaving Planning Commission; Leatherwood bumped upstairs at City Schools
The New Year is already bringing some changes to the local political and educational landscape.
Perriello to Goode: Let’s get it on [January 9]
Four months of fundraising has made Albemarle county native Tom Perriello the Democratic challenger to Virgil Goode, Bob Gibson of The Daily Progress reported today.
Primary dreams
First off, caveat emptor: The sell-by date on this particular edition of The Odd Dominion is so close, that it may well expire before you reach the end of the first paragraph.
Guitar Hero competition
The DJ, a tall, goateed man in a dark shirt and a Tampa Bay Lightning baseball cap, is still connecting the HDTV (high-definition television) to his PlayStation system as the 9pm start time for the first of the now-weekly Guitar Hero competition nights at Fellini’s #9, but by a few minutes after he’s ready to go.
The Virginia Quarterly Review
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 […]
Mulch ado about playgrounds
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 […]
Correction from January 1 issue
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.
Greetings from Second Life!
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.
In the future, green may be bland
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 […]
Beavers can’t build out of development
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 […]