Susanne Kogut Worked for the local SPCA* for: 3 yearsResides in: Ruckersville Job Title: Executive director of the Charlottesville Albemarle SPCA. Kogut is responsible for directing her staff, financial matters, public relations, and working on legislation for animals. Best of times: “When I first started, we were euthanizing over 40 percent of the animals. Now […]
C-VILLE has been following the Hope Community Center’s zoning dispute with the city over operating a homeless shelter on 11th Street NW, but if the Board of Zoning Appeals doesn’t rule in Hope’s favor at an April 17 hearing, at least two men will have jobs to fall back on. According to Hope’s Josh Bare, […]
In case you missed them, a number of eye-popping reports have recently been released on the sexual state of our (increasingly libidinal) nation.
The songs on each of Paul Curreri’s albums are about the subtle movements and antiquated objects that a person fixates on when something immense is breathing down the back of a city’s shirt collar. An ache in an elbow joint, say, that tips a man off to a storm. A creaking floorboard. A mass of […]
The Albemarle Commonweath's Attorney's office has filed five more felony charges against Slade Allen Woodson stemming from the I-64 shootings that took place in the early hours of March 27.
You don’t need to have lived in the area your whole life to see the design flaws in Route 29N—all it takes is a 5pm trip to Wal-Mart or Whole Foods to experience the magic.
Today brings a press release from the UVA Police that we can only imagine the brass in the athletics office dearly wishes was an April Fool’s joke. J’Courtney Williams, a noted redshirt freshman linebacker for Virginia, has been charged with credit card theft and credit card fraud, along with one other student, Lester Guy Spellman III.
What did we learn from the 33rd annual Charlottesville Ten Miler? That runners from outside the area are gunning for our local pavement pounders! A record 2,525 runners took off at the start of the race on a chilly, 50-degree morning; the first finisher, 24-year-old Charlie Hurt of Scottsville, crossed the line 51 minutes later. […]
UVA-baseball-player-turned-Major-League-wunderkind Ryan Zimmerman continues to cement his place in Washington Nationals lore. With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Zimmerman hit a walk-off homer today to give the Nats a win in their first game in their new $661 million stadium. “There’s something about him,” said Zimmerman’s teammate, Dmitri Young, in an ESPN.com […]
In today’s installment of his This Land column in The New York Times, Dan Barry visits Monticello to investigate everyone’s favorite local race-related conundrum—the relationship of Thomas Jefferson to his slave Sally Hemings.