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.
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 […]
Things are falling into place for the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, the first new school at UVA since…
Vesla Weaver leans across her desk and points to a graph on her computer screen. There are three bars. Each represents a different skin color of African Americans; the bars’ height shows the education and income levels for each statistical group. The chart is one of many, but each one shows the same thing: As […]
We know it doesn’t pay to play coulda-shoulda-woulda, but we couldn’t resist a rundown of plays that in toto gave the Gator Bowl to Texas Tech (mercifully, we’ll only start in the second half): Texas Tech recovers a surprise onside kick; refs don’t allow UVA Coach Al Groh to challenge a Red Raider fumble; quarterback […]