What’s in your backpack?
Jonathan Daron Year: Junior Major: Interdisciplinary Studies, with a business concentration Hometown: Norfolk What’s in his backpack: Four bottles of water, 1984, The Art of Fear, Best Darn Lies and […]
Hundreds flood Richmond to oppose new coal plant
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.
Accord the norm for new City Council?
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 […]
Another drought could be disaster
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 […]
The wrong side of the law
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 […]
Strom pleads guilty to child porn
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 […]
The Eli Cook Band
“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.
City agrees in concept to expand historic properties
Daniel Bluestone, a UVA professor of architectural preservation, wanted to make sure that the Compton House (most recently occupied by the Beta Theta fraternity)…
Rainharvesting edges gables in county dispute
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. […]
MySpace agrees to greater policing [January 15]
In a move advertised to improve youth Internet safety, state Attorney General Bob McDonnell…