Dear Ace: Where’d the bison out in Albemarle County go?—Buffalo Bill Buffalo: Yes, local food-lovin’ Charlottesville has lost some local food. The bison around here have gone the way of the buffalo, as it were. What’s the deal? The 100 or so bison that were here until recently were residents of Georgetown Farm, an operation […]
This event, April 16, was the 9/11 for colleges and universities across the country," said Phil Schaenman, staff director for the
Downtown businesses were able to leverage fear from the "white t-shirt gang attacks" and push the city to move forward with plans for Downtown Mall cameras—despite the fact that none of the incidents happened there. The city has put out a request for proposals and has budgeted $300,000 for the surveillance, which city Police Chief […]
One requirement. That’s all we had: “Be bold.” Otherwise, our instructions to photographers in this year’s the-art-director- is-on-vacation photo contest were fairly freewheeling.
In the July 10 cover story ["Food fights"] The Farm at Red Hill was misidentified as Red Hill Farm. Also, it is located in North Garden, and not Free Union, as was stated in the article. Our sincere apologies to the fine folks at the farm for the reporting errors.
In last week’s story on the proposed government auction of bandwith ["City Fire Chief Enters Bandwidth Battle," Government News], the position and role of Charlottesville Fire Chief Charles Werner was misrepresented. Werner is not a public safety commentator with the Association of Public Safety Officials International. Moreover, while there are concepts in the Frontline proposal […]
When he talks about the sludge of bureaucracy that Iraq veterans must wade through for combat-related disability pay
The poster is a simple design—black and white over a purple background, a man’s hand cupping the tiny palm of a child. The tag line reads: "It doesn’t feel right when I see them together." This poster has raised the ire of fathers’ rights fighters like Rush Limbaugh, who feel it alleges all hand-holding daddies […]
With area streams running 25 percent below normal (as indicated by the glass above), the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) was expected to declare a drought watch, the first of three phases of drought conditions. It means that we all should "voluntarily conserve water at every opportunity." RSWA reports that as of July 18, […]
Of those presenting to the Virginia Tech Incident Review Panel at Darden School of Business on July 18, none topped Russ Federman, director of UVA's Center for Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), whose candor garnered the full attention of the panelists and audience.