Housing stock plump [April 14]
Here’s the quickie version of the first-quarter market report just out from CAAR (the Charlottesville Albemarle Association of Realtors).
Correction from April issue of ABODE
In the April 2008 issue of ABODE, due to an editorial error, the Hot House page contained text referring to the ecoMOD3 project on Fourth Street SW, but the photo shows the ecoMOD1 project on 7 1/2 Street SW. Unlike ecoMOD3, the ecoMOD1 project does not incorporate a pre-existing 19th century building.
Correction from April 1 issue
The Charles Kingrea implicated in a cockfighting ring in Harrisonburg is not a jeweler as erroneously reported in an April 1, 2008, Government News story [“Cockfighting becomes felony”]. Charles Frank Kingrea, owner of C.K. Jewelers, is not the Charles Leo Kingrea of Gordonsville, who is alleged to have operated a retail business at a cockfight. […]
Critics fear changes could worsen voluntary care
Just a few days shy of the anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings, Governor Tim Kaine signed mental health care reform legislation that some mental health care advocates and survivors say will have disastrous effects.
BZA to hear homeless shelter appeal
On Thursday, April 17, 40 to 50 men, women and children will learn from the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals whether their home at Hope Community Center will have to shut its doors. For a little more than four months, the Hope Community Center, run by Josh Bare with his father, Harold, has housed the […]
Picking through your curb-side recycling
When the general manager of the Tidewater Fibre Corp (TFC) recycling facility in Chester stands up in front of 15 visitors and says that 95 percent of the facility’s work is done by manual labor, he is to be believed. Citizens of Charlottesville: Recycling all your plastic, metal and paper may be doing its part […]
City backs federal Department of Peace
What was the line that Claire from “Six Feet Under” uttered about her languishing high school compatriots? “I wish that just once people wouldn’t act like the clichés that they are.” Well, file this resolution from the City of Charlottesville in the Claire Fisher folder: On April 7, City Council passed a resolution supporting the […]
Your tax dollars, at work
Worked for the city for: Two years Resides in: CharlottesvilleJob title: Reading coach at Clark Elementary School. Coyner, who describes herself as an “embedded professional developer,” works with teachers to instruct reading and writing. Her position is federally funded as part of the No Child Left Behind Act. Paula Coyner Best of times: “Working with […]
Police bust cemetery violators
Last week, C-VILLE reported on neighborhood anger about graveyard vandalism at Maplewood Cemetery.
We’re with the bands
By the C-VILLE Weekly Pick-Up Ensemble, led by Brendan Fitzgerald and John Ruscher, with session players J. Tobias Beard, Will Goldsmith, Cathy Harding, Erika Howsare, Scott Weaver and Sara Yenke From the mosh pits to the nosebleed section, the floor seats to the door seats to the bar stools in the back, C-VILLE’s writers spend […]