Follow-up
Last May, staff from the state Department of Historic Resources (DHR) stood before a crowded community center in Tonsler Park to present their nomination of the surrounding neighborhood for a […]
Two students arrested for gun at Walton
On Friday, February 1, one Walton Middle School student brought something more than books or bubble gum to school—he showed up with a pistol. The student then handed the gun […]
AccessUVA almost at “full implementation”
In a September 17 editorial column in The Cavalier Daily, Josh Levy bemoaned the financial help some students receive to attend college. “Financial aid encourages people who have no business […]
Casteen sanguine despite stumbling economy [with video]
“This is about as good as it gets,” John T. Casteen III said last Thursday. Using the lunch hour (84 minutes, as it turned out), the president of UVA delivered his State of the University address to a light crowd in the auditorium of Old Cabell Hall.
The hidden life of UVA
Mai El Gasim Year: SeniorMajor: Premed Home state: Arizona What’s in your backpack? Coat that she borrowed from a friend, Arabic 202 grammar and reading packet, agenda, class notebook, velcro […]
Thao with The Get Down Stay Down
Thao’s songs are refreshingly not all about angsty break-ups. Instead, she writes about family and presents the everyday with new significance as she says, “You can’t build cathedrals out of […]
Dem fundraiser draws Obama and Clinton on cusp of primary
Two girls, probably in their early 20s, get in the line that has formed in front of the concession stand.
Former mayor, delegate Van Yahres dies
Mitch Van Yahres Charlottesville lost one of its longtime public servants on Friday, February 8, when Mitch Van Yahres, 81, died in the Martha Jefferson Hospital of complications after surgery […]
Your tax dollars, at work
Dayna Awkard Worked for Albemarle County for: 18 years come March 15Resides in: Waynesboro Job title: Deputy Clerk. She started working as a deputy clerk straight out of Fluvanna High […]
City prepares to turn down the volume
A few weeks ago on the Downtown Mall, there was an unusual performance: Jim Tolbert, the city’s director of Neighborhood Development Services, strummed an electric guitar hooked up to an amp in front of Snooky’s Pawnshop, with a couple of cops milling about.