As you lick it
Oh Lordy, we love to eat around here! No wilting Kate Bosworth-Keira Knightley-Carson Daly types on this staff. Three squares, Guv’ner, that’s what we’ll be having.
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As you lick it
Tossed upon a sea of delicious eats, we pick 50 great local tastes for you to savor
Oh Lordy, we love to eat around here! No wilting Kate Bosworth-Keira Knightley-Carson Daly types on this staff. Three squares, Guv’ner, that’s what we’ll be having.
Gay marriage ban debated
Common ground was a scarce commodity during an October 5 debate concerning the proposed amendment to the State constitution banning gay marriage and civil unions. House Delegate Bob Marshall, one of the amendment’s co-sponsors, took on Evan Wolfson, executive director of Freedom To Marry. The two stopped just short of direct name-calling (but just barely) while disputing each other’s position in a Lincoln-Douglas style debate at the UVA Law School.
Setback for Scottsville streetscape
The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors dealt a devastating blow to Scottsville town leaders at their October 4 meeting, denying $500,000 in requested funding for a street beautification project—a move Scottsville officials say effectively kills their Main Street development plan. The town council for Scottsville—the small tourist destination nestled in the southern part of Albemarle […]
County approves road priorities
The Meadowcreek Parkway was fresh on the minds of the Ablemarle County Board of Supervisors at their October 4 meeting. The $65 million roadway project originally wasn’t the top priority in the 2006 Primary Road Improvement Priorities report. “We’ll be listing Meadowcreek Parkway first there,” said David Benish, the County’s chief of planning, noticing the […]
Schools offer new takes on lunch
It was 30 minutes into the October 5 lunch at Johnson Elementary School, and cafeteria manager Myrtle Brooks had already dispensed 206 corn dogs (as compared to only 39 chef salads). But not to worry—each of those corndoggers got their daily fruit and veg, as well. For every corndog (made of turkey, by the way, […]
Board of visitors approves new dorm for Hereford area
In a September meeting, the Board of Visitors gave the go-ahead on a schematic design for a new residence hall to be built near the existing Hereford residential collegeâa dorm assignment known among students as getting “Heref**ked” due to its isolating design and distance from central Grounds.
Five more campus mumps cases
UVA officials aren’t ready to sound the “outbreak” alarm yet, but with five new suspected mumps cases reported over the past week—bringing the total to seven unconfirmed cases on campus—there’s a high level of unease as other mumps reports emerge in the Charlottesville area. “We’re still on an aggressive campaign to get the […]
sports scholarships As elitism?
Scholarships for students playing traditionally “white” sports could be another way for elites to dominate American universities, a September 21 article in The Economist asserts. A column dealing with Dan Golden’s The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges—and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates claims preps wheedle their […]
Sizing up the school
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes may be a great way to measure a year for those Rent kids, but what’s the best way to measure a growing university? In gallons? In acres? In parking citations? Though C-VILLE couldn’t finish counting all of those curving bricks by deadline, a few interesting totals popped up. […]
New plan to protect rural areas
The contentious issue of rural preservation is at the root of a new proposal for tradable development rights (TDR) from Albemarle County Supervisor David Slutzky. It’s garnering reserved approval from interested parties across the spectrum.
The question of how to prevent bucolic countryside from being converted to cul-de-sacs and strip malls (a.k.a. How Not To Become Northern Virginia) has been critical lately. Three years ago, the Board of Supervisors decided that Albemarle’s answer would be to designate 5 percent of the county as growth areas.