A 27-year-old former legal secretary pleaded guilty May 16 to defrauding her boss, a Louisa County lawyer, for more than $145,000 in credit card charges and bank withdrawals she made in his name. The case reads like a bad novel. Paula Jean Hufner was a secretary for what court documents call “Acme Law Firm,” and […]
As of 2004, 1 percent of the inmates in Virginia prisons were known to be HIV positive. That’s around eight times the rate of HIV cases in the total state population according
Last summer, River Heights Associates, a company largely controlled by Wendell Wood, filed suit in the Albemarle County Circuit Court against Regency Centers Corporation, DRG
One item on City Council’s consent agenda hit a snag at a meeting May 7. A special use permit for a small apartment building to be built on a one-acre site on Jefferson Park Avenue threw Council into the ongoing debate about how the city is supposed to house all the ’Hoos. Robby Noll of […]
Since 2002, the Brownell Metal Studio has produced everything from grates at the Darden School to gorgeous custom furniture. “What we do is high-quality, high-end architectural metalwork,” says Brownell. “I’d never say anything about the other shops in Charlottesville, but we do things differently.” The local boom in upper-crust construction allowed Steve Brownell to open […]
The title is lost. We are no longer No. 1 in Cities: Ranked and Rated, the 2nd edition of the book put out by Frommer’s (guidebook of the upper-middle class tourists yearning to hit the respectable talking-point sites on the next family vacation). Charlottesville has fallen, in fact, to No. 17 in the list of […]
Four of the five Democratic candidates for City Council recently met at Fry’s Spring Beach Club to discuss their positions on various issues facing the neighborhood off Old Lynchburg Road and Jefferson Park Avenue. Only months ago, a contingent of elderly retired residents from the neighborhood forced the Council into agreeing to make various improvements […]
The Charlottesville City Market is known as a place where customers can meet vendors, face-to-face, to buy fresh, locally grown produce and homemade goods. It’s trust-driven
From January 30 to February 16, the Charlottesville City Schools posted a community survey on its website. During that time, 868 people logged on (a few filled out paper versions). The results were presented to the Charlottesville School Board on May 17 [a PDF of the Results of CCS Community Questionnaire can be downloaded from […]
Graduation has passed, the kiddies have gone home, and it’s time for another season in Charlottesville: construction season. The first phase of the huge South Lawn project will