Bike advocates take to the streets
Alia Anderson’s most recent accident pitched her off the bicycle she uses to travel from her home on Cherry Avenue to the Alliance for Community Choice in Transportation (ACCT)
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Bike advocates take to the streets
Troubleshooting and 12-speeds on University Avenue
Alia Anderson’s most recent accident pitched her off the bicycle she uses to travel from her home on Cherry Avenue to the Alliance for Community Choice in Transportation (ACCT)
Everybody iPod
It’s a common sight at UVAâa large lecture class dismisses, a flood of students pours out a set of double doors and they all plug in, dialing cell phones or popping those telltale white
Bobby Seale: “They tell me I made history”
“I’m an improviser,” announced Bobby Seale (www.bobbyseale.com), once Black Panther Party (BPP) (www.bp.org) chairman, during his February 22 address to a packed Harris-Small Auditorium. And for an hour and a half, he stuck to form, delivering a rambling but illuminating recital of the group’s beginnings. Invited to speak as part of Black History Month, Seale—sartorially […]
Lighting the proper way
As an update to a story last week (“County tackles research park’s ‘awful’ lighting”), the County Planning Commission approved a lighting waiver for additions to UVA Foundation’s (www.uvafoundation.com) North Fork Research Park off Route 29N. The commission denied a similar request in November because the lights didn’t meet the definition of full-cut off, meaning some […]
They love him just the way he is
With a key-pounding “Root Beer Rag” dedicated to Virginian pianist Bruce Hornsby, a rendition of AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” fronted by a roadie named Chainsaw, and even a dirty joke or two, on February 23 the aging Piano Man showed the John Paul Jones crowd that he can still kick in on a Friday night. […]
Is Deeds violating ethics rule?
The Virginia State Bar is considering getting rid of a rule that has long prevented legislators from practicing in law firms that employ lobbyists. The Washington Post reported on February 16 that one local legislator especially has an interest in seeing the ethics rule eliminated: R. Creigh Deeds (www.creighdeeds.com), a Democratic State senator from Bath […]
Farmers head to Washington
In 2005, a law was passed that said Albemarle farmer John Coles couldn’t sell his unpasteurized goat cheese anymore. Coles now makes his living selling vegetables, grown at his farm off Route 29 about eight miles north of Fashion Square Mall, and gives away pounds of cheese on a donation-only basis. Like many small farmers, […]
Hamilton won’t seek re-election
Kendra Hamilton, City councilor since 2004, has decided not to seek re-election in November. “It was about creating some balance in my life,” says Hamilton. “It’s a big job, and it takes some time. It just wasn’t a good time for me professionally.”
War protestors arrested
City police lead out Jeff Winder, 38, one of three locals arrested February 21 for refusing to leave Congressman Virgil Goode’s Charlottesville office. Part of a simultaneous effort nationwide in a dozen other cities, a group of locals staged a sit-in in Congressman Virgil Goode’s office on February 21. Three were arrested: Jeff Winder, Shelly […]
County gets new Circuit Judge
On February 22, a committee of six Republicans from the 16th Judicial Circuit in the Virginia General Assembly selected local attorney Cheryl V. Higgins for the Albemarle County Circuit Court judge seat. Higgins was approved by the full assembly the fol