Due to an editing error, we need to correct a correction in last week’s issue. (Are you following?) Last week’s correction (p. 19) stated that we incorrectly identified a circuit court judge candidate in our article “Who are you outside the law,” Courts & Crime News, December 19. That’s correct; however, we incorrectly corrected the […]
Due to an editing error, we need to correct a correction in last week’s issue. (Are you following?) Last week’s correction (p. 19) stated that we incorrectly identified a circuit court judge candidate in our article “Who are you outside the law,” Courts & Crime News, December 19. That’s correct; however, we incorrectly corrected the […]
Dear Ace: I heard that police officers don’t have to write citations for every traffic accident. Is that true? What kind of discretion do they have?—Rex Carr Dear Rex: You and Ace are on the same wavelength: His car insurance premiums are pretty deadly, too. So what are the odds of making sure that fender-bender […]
The sky is dark, wrapped around the UVA Chapel, and the wind feels fit to bring down trees. Well below the deep brown, barrel-vaulted ceiling, Sarah White and the Pearls are setting up to play a gig…
Amid heaps of seeming junk in Oliver Kuttner’s workshop on E. Market Street sits a steel skeleton portending the next big building on the Downtown Mall, on the site of the former Boxer Learning center.
As the Downtown Mall continually snazzifies with boutiques and restaurants, vacant rental spaces supposedly get snapped up like hot cakes by businesses eager to join the bustle. If that’s true, then why are there so many Debbie Downer empty buildings spoiling the splendor? Not including buildings we know are currently being redeveloped, we confirmed roughly […]
In a tiny space in the Jefferson Theater, there’s a store with a big heart. Innisfree World Artisans takes its name from Crozet’s Innisfree Village (www.innisfreevillage.org), a community of mentally challenged adults, and sells village residents’ crafts (woven placemats and scarves, wooden cutting boards, and granola) as well as items from Ten Thousand Villages and […]
Albemarle Police (www.albemarle.org/police) announced December 21 that over a dozen burglaries that occurred this year in two county neighborhoods constitute a burglary string. Sixteen burglaries in the Hessian Hills and Canterbury Hills neighborhoods and two on nearby Georgetown Road have led police to think one or several people are responsible for the spike in thefts. […]
A survey released by the UVA Center for Survey Research asked a pool of Charlottesville residents to rate how safe they feel in city neighborhoods. Police Chief Timothy J. Longo says he’s “not at all surprised” by the survey’s results.
When Randy White began work as a medical supply clerk at the UVA Medical Center (www.virginia.edu/hlth.html) in May of 2005, he was asked by a supervisor to work one weekend per month. White explained to his supervisor that he is a Seventh-day Adventist and does not work from dusk on Friday to dusk on Saturday. […]
Robert W. Haigh, a Harvard Business School graduate, successful executive and former Darden School of Business dean was found dead December 26.