Charlottesville news, issues, and event coverage on the net:These folk like to pay attention to what’s what in Charlottesville, as do we! cvillenews.com, Charlottesville Tomorrow, Charlottesville Podcasting Network
Charlottesville news, issues, and event coverage on the net:These folk like to pay attention to what’s what in Charlottesville, as do we! cvillenews.com, Charlottesville Tomorrow, Charlottesville Podcasting Network
Saturday morning lifted the spirits (and, most likely, the self-imposed shower restrictions) of more than a few citizens as the heavens opened up and soaked our city with a resounding downpour. Which was presumably followed by a slight sight of relief and more than a few half-hour showers. From Friday, October 26, until Saturday morning—roughly […]
Cavalier football fans are venting on TheSabre.com today, trying to realign expectations after a surprising hot start to the season came to an end Saturday against N.C. State. The UVA football team was looking for its seventh straight win against a team that didn’t have a single conference victory prior to yesterday, but with quarterback […]
The current issue of What Is Enlightenment, a quarterly magazine about spirituality, contains a brief obituary for Dr. Ian Stevenson…
Staunton's News Leader fired sports reporter Blair J. Parker on Tuesday, October 23 for plagiarizing at least four stories from different internet sources, that paper reports this week.
It was a dark and stormy night when Lake Anna residents, staff members from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Committee (NRC) and officials from Dominion Power met to discuss plans for a third nuclear reactor on Lake Anna.
When Michael Watson, then 55 years old, accepted an unloaded pistol as payment for 24 doses of OxyContin, the definition of a single word came into question. A federal provision criminalizes the "use" of a firearm during a drug trafficking offense and imposes a mandatory consecutive sentence of at least five years. Because of the […]
Bernard Frischer spends most of his life living in—to borrow a line from Stevie Wonder—a pastime paradise. As I sit across from him at the foot of a 20′ projection screen, I can’t help but think that he’s a spittin’ image of the Motown recording artist, wearing dark virtual reality glasses, bathed in colored lights […]
They lay on their backs, shoulder to shoulder, for three minutes. Each was dressed in black, and each wore maroon and yellow ribbons around his or her neck. Thirty-two UVA students held a "lie in" October 16 in protest of what organizers say are the country’s lax gun laws, the 32 signifying the victims of […]
When Kurt Krueger, the president of the Piedmont Family YMCA’s Board of Directors, got up to speak at the October 15 City Council meeting, the first thing he said was that the YMCA and the city have some negotiating to do. The Council is considering a $14 million YMCA facility in McIntire Park, and that […]