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 […]
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 […]
Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, disobeyed orders when he appeared in uniform at a Washington, D.C. protest on March 30 and offered a prayer “in Jesus’ name.” Klingenschmitt was court marshalled on September 14, and received a suspended fine and a reprimand. “Three little words,” says John Whitehead of Charlottesville’s Rutherford […]
Student Financial Services was trying to e-mail 1,264 students to tell them to pay their bills and avoid being blocked from spring registration. But, due to what University Spokesperson Carol Wood termed a “human error,” Student Financial Services, on Tuesday, October 31, instead sent 632 e-mails to half of those students containing other students’ data, […]
Though consistently ranked at the top of the heap, UVA doesn’t cut it for some ambitious college students who want more than Mr. Jefferson’s manicured lawns, neoclassical architecture and renowned professors. So where can they go to get away from the whole “public school” feel of things? The law school, of course, and its crowning […]
Two lawyers went head-to-head in a panel discussion at UVA Law School’s Caplin Pavilion Wednesday, November 1. One, Jay Speer, the executive director of the Virginia Poverty Law Center, said pay-day lending is predatory and should be outlawed; the other, Michele Satterlund, an attorney who represents payday lender CheckSmart, said her company is simply fulfilling […]
In its efforts to provide enough fresh water for the next 50 years of area growth, the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) is inching closer to working out the details for expanding the Ragged Mountain Reservoir. At a November 2 meeting, RWSA unveiled and explained the so-called mitigation plan, required to offset the loss […]
If you’ve been feeling a little more continental lately, it’s not just your imagination. On October 20, Charlottesville formalized its union with Besançon, our longtime unofficial sister city in France. Besançon Mayor Jean-Louis Fousseret was on hand to sign a charter recognizing the alliance, though he apparently couldn’t quite get the hang of the sister […]
In 1936, “Jefferson’s University” so wanted to maintain its segregated self that it implemented a unique admissions policy for dealing with black applicants. Its forward-thinking solution? The best and brightest African American minds were paid to go anywhere but UVAâ”anywhere” usually being a blacks-only college, according to a new weekly tour of UVA’s African American history.