From January 30 to February 16, the Charlottesville City Schools posted a community survey on its website. During that time, 868 people logged on (a few filled out paper versions). The results were presented to the Charlottesville School Board on May 17 [a PDF of the Results of CCS Community Questionnaire can be downloaded from […]
From January 30 to February 16, the Charlottesville City Schools posted a community survey on its website. During that time, 868 people logged on (a few filled out paper versions). The results were presented to the Charlottesville School Board on May 17 [a PDF of the Results of CCS Community Questionnaire can be downloaded from […]
Graduation has passed, the kiddies have gone home, and it’s time for another season in Charlottesville: construction season. The first phase of the huge South Lawn project will
On a recent Monday night, the University of Virginia Patent Foundation honored Wladek Minor as the 2007 Edlich-Henderson Inventor of the Year, an annual award for the last 15 years. A professor of molecular physiology and biological physics in the University’s School of Medicine, Minor is a researcher and inventor in the field of protein […]
A National Research Council report released this month says that by 2020, less than 2 percent of the United States’ total carbon emissions would be offset by wind energy development. Rick Webb, a senior scientist at UVA’s Department of Environmental Sciences, contributed to the report. He thinks wind energy’s negative impact may far outweigh its […]
In honor of another school year ended, we, who call ourselves permanent residents and bona fide Charlottesvillians, undertook the task of revisiting the neighborhood we usually dare not mention, neither as drinking spot, nor acceptable hangout. We are referring, of course, to the Corner. Sophomoric as it may be, the block has its draws in […]
Friday, June 1 Andy Waldeck and the C-villians. The celebrated instrumentalist and singer is backed by an equally talented band. $8, 9pm. Gravity Lounge, 103 S. First St., off the Downtown Mall. 977-5590. Caroline Spence. This fresh-faced teenager sings songs that pierce the heart with their poignancy and honesty. $5-7, 6pm. Gravity Lounge, 103 S. […]
Dear Ace: The Foxfield Races designates a charitable organization to receive proceeds from its semiannual steeplechase races, but how much are the Foxfield folks actually giving to charities?—Horace O. Coors. Horace: Boy, you’re even more cynical than Ace, huh? Still, Ace supposes you have some justification. Those white-glove-wearing, julep-sipping, portfolio-having derbyites over at Foxfield surely […]
In August 2004, Derek Breen went upstairs to check his e-mail. “My bedroom was right above the hammock shop,” he remembers. At the time, just over a year into his Twin Oaks tenure, he was managing the hammocks business, the community’s biggest income source. Pier One was a longstanding and very sizable client—representing up to […]
Devon Sproule, perennial favorite of the Charlottesville folk scene, just might be Twin Oaks’ best-known local alum. (She grew up there.) But she’s hardly the only ex-Oaker, as they call themselves, to settle in Charlottesville. With the community only 35 miles away from our relatively cosmopolitan city, perhaps it’s a natural that Oakers leaving the […]
… Plenty of outsiders come. They’ll pull off I-64 at Shannon Hill, then follow the calm roads a few miles north into Louisa County. Along the way is the usual rural mix of trailers, tiny frame houses, more prosperous-looking farms.