Funny how much difference a million dollars can make. It only took five minutes for the 124-unit Avinity project to garner the stamp of approval from the Albemarle Board of Supervisors at their June 13 meeting—thanks to a substantial increase in the amount of money developers agreed to pay the county for each unit built. […]
Every day an average of 80 kids crowd into the Boys & Girls Club off Cherry Avenue for one program or another
“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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The sun’s out, it’s past noon, and the Downtown Mall swells with pedestrians. A grey Acura Integra sits at Fourth Street,
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 […]