Two years ago when she started the nomination process to list Fifeville as a National Register Historic District (NRHD), city Preservation and Design Planner Mary Joy Scala didn’t think it would turn into a controversial decision. After all, such a designation is largely symbolic: It imposes no design controls on homeowners if they don’t opt […]
Two years ago when she started the nomination process to list Fifeville as a National Register Historic District (NRHD), city Preservation and Design Planner Mary Joy Scala didn’t think it would turn into a controversial decision. After all, such a designation is largely symbolic: It imposes no design controls on homeowners if they don’t opt […]
A week before Thanksgiving, the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation reported an unsettling statistic. Of any town in Virginia, Charlottesville has the highest average cost of a Turkey Day dinner for 10. While the state’s average is $40.74, our area’s is close to $50. Less than two weeks later, a smattering of local officials and housing […]
Ronald Utt meets a waiter in a Slidell, Louisiana, Applebee’s who moved there from California because it’s cheaper. To him, it’s another sign that California is going to hell in a handbasket, with median houses selling for $750,000 in some parts, unaffordable to 95 percent of the population and a working class moving out to […]
Like most UVA add-ons, the Fontaine Research Park has been built to resemble the Lawn, with a broad, verdant expanse of grass connecting two rows of brick buildings that frame a gorgeous mountain view. But unlike the Lawn—and even unlike other Lawn look-alikes such as the Darden business school—hardly a soul strolls across that beautiful […]
A motivated group of UVA students is attempting to do something that has never been done at Mr. Jefferson’s university—implement the first student-proposed major. For the past year, members of the student-run Global Development Organization have been lobbying the administration for the creation of a new global development major. While the interested students recognize the […]
With only 1.2 seconds left, and the UVA men’s basketball team down 70-67 in the squad’s first marquee home matchup against the Syracuse Orangemen on December 5, senior point guard Sean Singletary stood just above the arc. But this time he wasn’t pulling up to hit a game-tying score, nor to pass to a wide […]
The court date for the city man who was hit by an Albemarle Police car while crossing the street in his wheelchair—and then ticketed—has been moved to January 3. Gerry Mitchell appeared in Charlottesville General District Court on the morning of December 6, only to learn that the court had issued a continuance of his […]
"Neal Willetts is a young man who has amazingly supportive friends and family," said a letter crafted by his attorney, Francis Lawrence, and released to the media December 4 shortly before the former social studies teacher at Western Albemarle was sentenced in federal court to 10 years in prison. Neal Willetts will serve 10 years […]
Previous coverage: New charge in trailer park murderDead girl’s boyfriend picked up for perjury Ronald Powell was sentenced to two years in prison on December 4 for two counts of perjury that stem from testimony he gave during the 2006 trial for the murder of his then 18-year-old girlfriend, Azlee Hickman. In that trial, Powell […]
Let’s say that it is 2:30 in the morning, you are out driving, and you take Stony Point Road. Turning off 250 at Pantops, you pass a McDonald’s on the left, its lights dimmed. As you drive along, picking up speed—the limit is 45—you go past Darden Towe Park on one side and a sign […]