First the politicians spoke, Virginia State Senator Phillip Puck, Delegate Terry Kilgore and local Wise County officials among them, offering bland platitudes on economic growth and construction jobs—real concerns to be sure in a place like Wise County, where jobs have become scarce.
There was an unusual amount of energy in City Council chambers at 6:57pm on January 7. And why not? It was a new year, and a new council. Holly Edwards and Satyendra Huja were about to take their seats for the first time, Dave Norris was about to take over as mayor, and the two […]
The Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) lifted its drought warning on January 2 after issuing it in August, and mandatory restrictions were promptly lifted by City Council and the county Board of Supervisors. Lawn-waterers across the Charlottesville area rejoiced. Tom Frederick, executive director of RWSA, says that he expects area reservoirs to top off […]
Dear Ace: Where does the Charlottesville Police Department get those cars with the driver’s side on the right? Do they come from England?—Britt Wheeler Britt: Sometimes the simplest questions are the hardest ones to answer. That’s what Ace found out when, after multiple calls to various locations, the best response he got was: “Y’know, that’s […]
Shortly before Judge Norman K. Moon entered Charlottesville’s U.S. District Court on Monday morning, defendant Kevin Alfred Strom was led in shackles and clothed in the customary grey and black striped prison garb. A year after he was arrested and charged with multiple counts of possession of child pornography, he was set to plead guilty […]
“Standing room only,” says the woman that takes my ticket at the table outside of Four County Players, the 35-year-old community theater space just off of Route 33 in Barboursville.
Daniel Bluestone, a UVA professor of architectural preservation, wanted to make sure that the Compton House (most recently occupied by the Beta Theta fraternity)…
There were a lot of babies in attendance at the January 9 Board of Supervisors meeting. Not the figurative babies who sometimes show up to whine and throw temper tantrums. No, these were real babies, the offspring of parents there to support the Pantops Montesorri Community School’s appeal of an Architectural Review Board (ARB) decision. […]
In a move advertised to improve youth Internet safety, state Attorney General Bob McDonnell…
The proposed Wise County plant has come to symbolize growing debates about the importance of a region’s economic health verses the actual health of its residents, the power of Dominion in state government and the looming battle over the future of public investment for our energy. While Dominion and government officials tout the proposed plant […]