Brush up on your UVA
While UVA students were away interning, working, taking summer classes or laying on the couch eating Fla-vor-ice and playing X-box, there were some changes made ’round TJ’s university.
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Brush up on your UVA
Your back-to-school guide to what's new
While UVA students were away interning, working, taking summer classes or laying on the couch eating Fla-vor-ice and playing X-box, there were some changes made ’round TJ’s university.
UVA\’s Blue ridge hospital site stagnates
Property values for the 45 or so historic buildings at UVA Foundation’s Blue Ridge Hospital site are dropping fast as land values in the area off Route 20, south of Charlottesville, continue to rise. This means adaptive reuse of the buildings on the 140-acre property may become even less worthwhile for UVA. According to the […]
Allen’s controversial greeting sparks debate
As Virginia Senator George Allen’s biggest verbal blunder of his campaign saturates the media, the Republican hopes to put the recent monkey business behind him.
New census data conveys old news
In spite of a uniquely thriving culture, Charlottesville’s population tallies run closer to those of the rest of Virginia than expected. Charlottesville met the requirements for study by the U.S. Census Bureau thanks to the agency’s decision to publish findings for populations of 65,000 or more. A few unique academic, family, and language statistics, culled […]
School board to consider religious literature
The next Albemarle School Board meeting may bring about a battle of divine proportions, thanks to a recent attempt by two Hollymead Elementary students to distribute religious literature among their classmates. And—with a blessed hand from a pair of Virginia-based rights organizations—the battle may be a swift one. Albemarle School Board attorney Mark Trank confirms […]
Few changes to city discipline policy
Only a few tinkerings to the discipline system will result from the recommendations of the Charlottesville schools’ Discipline Task Force. Then interim superintendent, Bobby Thompson, appointed that group of 25 parents, students, teachers and principals after last year’s well-publicized violent incidents in City schools—particularly at Buford Middle School, where reportedly 13 staff members were threatened […]
Take a seat?
What I mean is, why is so much of this public space taken up by private seating for restaurants? What\’s the idea?âPaul Uppaskwat
Taking Care
Reva Frazier choked on a piece of chicken in July 2004, while living in the Trinity Mission of Charlottesville nursing home. She was 90 years old and legally blind. She’d entered the home because she couldn’t walk or feed herself anymore. She could barely communicate, and didn’t have the ability to tell anyone she was choking…
Back to school
Or is this some kind of trick question designed to confuse the students? âWanda Ring Aigh
City planning commission rejects Fifeville project
In an uncharacteristic decision, the City Planning Commission flexed its muscles August 8 and unanimously voted to reject the preliminary site plan for a four-storey, 27-unit Fifeville development that would be located a few hundred feet from Walker Square. Developers of the 850 Estes St. property call it “mixed-use” despite reserving only 835 square feet, […]