Boys & girls club plans new facility
Every day an average of 80 kids crowd into the Boys & Girls Club off Cherry Avenue for one program or another
Garrett Street: hot spot for assault?
“People ask me where I live and I tell them Friendship Court, and they say, ‘I can’t believe you live there.’ It makes me feel bad,” says Justina, a woman who has lived in the low-income housing complex on the 400 block of Garrett Street for more than 15 years. Charles Martin, executive director of […]
City teen faces death penalty
A Charlottesville man faces the death penalty in Buckingham County for charges stemming from the March 9 shooting of Clarence Maurice Austin, whose body was dumped along a rural road off Route 20. Two other men face life in prison for abduction, robbery and murder charges. Theodore Calvin Timberlake of Charlottesville, Claude Lorenzo Booker of […]
Game warden charged in shooting
A Greene County grand jury indicted game warden Robert Orrin Ham, III on charges of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting of 16-year-old Allen Cochran. On January 24, Cochran was suspected of kidnapping his 15-year-old girlfriend. Ham was assisting police in a hunt for the teen when he pulled over Cochran’s vehicle, with his girlfriend inside, […]
Whom would YMCA serve?
Even in the middle of a wet, grey Thursday, as shoppers hurry across the Albemarle Square parking lot, a group of t-shirted guys chuck up jumpshots in ACAC’s indoor basketball courts. Just around the corner in Legacy Management’s offices sits Phil Wendel, founder and president of ACAC. By Wendel’s own figures, he’s invested about $20 […]
Hanger hangs on
State Senator Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. fended off a challenge from Scott Sayre in the June 12 Republican primary for the party’s nomination in the 24th District, which is centered in the Shenandoah Valley. Hanger, who seeks a fourth four-year term, won with 53 percent of the vote by a margin of 865 ballots. Voter […]
City Council: GOP’s tale of woe
For the first time in decades, the Republicans won’t field a candidate for City Council, which has three seats up for grabs in November. Why no GOP contenders? A look at City Council election history gives a hint: Republican bids usually have been quixotic affairs. In the past 21 years, only two Republican candidates have […]
Mall Crossing: stay or go?
The sun’s out, it’s past noon, and the Downtown Mall swells with pedestrians. A grey Acura Integra sits at Fourth Street,
Students take on 29N
A pedestrian crossing Route 29N may seem like a fish out of water, but 10 UVA students have cooked up some intersection designs to make the trek more palatable. “Crossing eight lanes of traffic is daunting to say the least,” says Matt Dreher, one of the student designers. Does the future hold foot traffic on […]
Valley Road closure pending
It’s a pretty fancy cul-de-sac, but UVA might just have to wait to begin its construction on Valley Road. A part of the University’s South Lawn Project that would close 438′ of Valley Road to build an elaborately landscaped cul-de-sac ran into unexpected trouble at the June 12 meeting of the city Planning Commission. The […]