The issue of an unbuilt road in the Hollymead Town Center, hotly contested when it came before the County Planning Commission, fizzled out in a rushed hearing with little controversy when the Board of Supervisors heard it at their November 1 meeting.
The issue of an unbuilt road in the Hollymead Town Center, hotly contested when it came before the County Planning Commission, fizzled out in a rushed hearing with little controversy when the Board of Supervisors heard it at their November 1 meeting.
Culbreth Theatre, UVA Grounds. Sunday October 30, 2005. 4pm.
8,640 hours, 30 minutes to go.
Shea Sizemore, Paul Metzger, and Kim Bonner are taking in the applause. The filmmaking team has just won the Mentor Award for the 2005 Adrenaline Film Project for their short movie, Small Loss. The prize, given by the project’s directors, rewards the team that overcomes the largest odds and still makes a great film.
A lot of people from Charlottesville like to think of themselves as Hollywood types, but Jeff Wadlow, son of the late State Senator Emily Couric and Charlottesville High School graduate (Class of 1994), really is one.
State police pledged “no new victims” on Halloween this year, vowing to keep trick-or-treating children safe from sexual predators. So, they continued an annual program called “Operation Trick No Treat” that requires sex offenders to stay at home with their lights off or attend a meeting during prime trick-or-treating hours.
‘Tis the season for multibillion dollar university campaigns. In September and October, UVA ended the “silent” phase of its capital campaign, and several other schools also made public their considerable underground moneymaking efforts.
On Tuesday, October 31, three George Allen campaign aides dragged a first-year UVA law student out of the Omni Charlottesville Hotel. Mike Stark, a liberal blogger who has provoked Allen in the past on Allen’s use of the “N”-word, was booted out for asking the senator needling questions about his first marriage at a campaign event.
The long real estate saga that has entangled the Little High Area Neighborhood Association (LHANA) and Region Ten, the public agency that provides services to mentally disabled people, came to what seems like a conclusion on October 26 when the City’s Board of Zoning Appeals ruled in favor of Region Ten. At issue was whether […]
In its efforts to preserve rural areas, the County’s Board of Supervisors hasn’t managed to impose restrictions on development rights, known as “phasing.” Yet it has managed to preserve 3,776 acres in the last four years through the Acquisition of Conservation Easements (ACE) program. Conservation easements overlay certain restrictions on land with the idea of […]
City prosecutors reached a deal with murder suspect William Franklin Marshall on Monday, October 30, that said he is guilty of being an accessory, but cannot be tried as the killer, in a 2004 strangulation that occurred at a trailer park on Carlton Road. Marshall will serve only 12 months for the misdemeanor charge. Marshall […]
Parents who provided alcohol for their teen’s 16th birthday acknowledge they bought the beer, but argue their home was illegally searched the night they were charged for contributing to the delinquency of minors. Initially sentenced to eight years in prison, George and Elisa Robinson, now divorced, appealed to the Virginia Supreme Court, which heard the […]