Correction from December 11 issue

Due to a reporting error, in "Locals up for Grammys" [7 Days, December 11, 2007] one big name was missing: Batesville resident Mary Chapin Carpenter, who was nominated for "Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album" for The Calling.

Other News We Heard Last Week

Tuesday, December 18 One vote for solid waste Only one member of a five-person board was able to vote to fund solid waste services in the city and county, reports today’s Daily Progress. Because of conflict of interest concerns, four of the five members abstained, allowing local builder Michael Gaffney to offer his own motion, […]

Nukes, Fines, C.A.R.S., Pigs and parks

More 2007 year in Review The year of the blueprint (not the bulldozer)2007 development news in review Rape, murder, kiddie porn and more2007 courts and crime news in review One new school, gobs of cash, but no A&S dean2007 UVA news in review Our government—federal, state and local— made its usual range of controversial decisions […]

The year of living famously

It seemed like only yesterday that the most incendiary Hollywood scandals were Man-Eating Actress A snatching up Milquetoast Actress B's husband, Leading Man C getting caught diddling the help, or Has-Been Z wandering through the Valley claiming to be the reincarnation of a space god …

Board of Zoning appeals denies Monticello Ridge

On October 31, Charlottesville city Zoning Administrator Read Brodhead sent a letter to Louise Wright informing her that her plan to offer transitional housing to the homeless was in violation of a nonconforming use permit she had been granted a year earlier to run the former assisted living facility on 218 Ridge St.

One new school, gobs of cash, but no A&S dean

More 2007 year in Review The year of the blueprint (not the bulldozer)2007 development news in review Rape, murder, kiddie porn and more2007 courts and crime news in review Nukes, Fines, C.A.R.S., Pigs and parks2007 Government news in review The area’s biggest employer continued its $3 billion quest to help raise its rankings, while leaving […]

Jones beats Maryland [December 25]

Ten years after being fired as UVA’s men’s basketball coach, Jeff Jones is celebrated in a John Feinstein column in today’s Washington Post. On December 22, Jones’ current team—American University—traveled the short distance from their home in Northwest Washington, D.C. to Maryland’s Comcast Center where they beat the Gary Williams coached Terrapins by the score […]

I’m wassailing away! [December 24]

Among the Christmas tunes that inspire quizzical looks and questions of origin (right up there with “All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth”), “Here We Come A-Wassailing” is a classic …