What's in your backpack?
Ben Hackney Year: Freshman Major: Environmental sciences What’s in your backpack? The Craft of Argument, Puntos en Breve 2, Spanish notebook, Nature Valley bar, two pencils, two pens, one highlighter, […]
Search for deans is on
Within a month, Provost Arthur “Tim” Garson expects to have names from external firms conducting searches for the open deanships for the schools of nursing, medicine and arts & sciences. […]
Big donation hits home [March 17]
It’s a good Monday to be Overton McGehee, director of the Charlottesville branch of Habitat for
Police expand powers in public housing
One night late in June 2007, William Miller Herndon was found on the 800 block of Hardy Drive in the Westhaven public housing complex, unresponsive and with multiple gunshot wounds.
Lawsuit of the week
Margaret Virginia Gibson fell after stepping into a “large depression” on Second Street. Plaintiff: Margaret Virginia GibsonDefendant: City of CharlottesvilleCourt: Charlottesville Circuit CourtWhat’s at issue: Whether the city is responsible […]
Path cleared for southern retail center
Roughly 10 years ago, the Board of Supervisors was in a position to approve a big box
Downtown + hotel = Apple store on Mall?
One thing is for certain: When it’s complete next summer, the 100-room boutique hotel that broke ground last week will bring rich people to the Downtown Mall. Developed by Lee […]
County, developers find kinks in rural ordinances
Several rural ordinances when passed by Albemarle County Supervisors February 6 were billed as moderate measures designed to promote the environmental health of the rural areas. But some developers and […]
The defense rests [March 14]
March melancholy overtakes Hooville today, after the UVA men’s basketball team didn’t make it
UVA grad has ties to Eliot Spitzer case [March 13]
The New York Governor Eliot Spitzer prostitution-ring debacle is making waves even down here