First Elected School Board a success
Charlottesville has its first elected school board in decades. Ned Michie, an attorney and the only incumbent on the ballot, received the most votes: 3,101.
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First Elected School Board a success
Michie, Puryear and Wade win out
Charlottesville has its first elected school board in decades. Ned Michie, an attorney and the only incumbent on the ballot, received the most votes: 3,101.
Voter turnout up
Last week, 5,993 of y’all turned out to vote for two City Council seats and three School Board seats—that’s 26 percent of all registered voters. About 600 more city residents voted this year than in May 2004, due in part to massive voter registration efforts in the November 2004 presidential election, which added about 2,000 […]
Local immigrants join in national day of demonstrations
Waving American flags, singing hymns in Spanish and English, and holding signs that declared “We struggle for what is right with dignity” and “I am an immigrant, not a delinquent,” about 350 local Hispanics and community members gathered outside the County Office Building on McIntire Road at 6:30pm on May 1 to tell Charlottesville loud and clear: “We\’re here, and we matter.”
County moves toward new park
Mountain bikers bummed over the recent closing of the public trails at Panorama Farms got some good news last week. On Wednesday, May 3, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to move forward with plans to turn the 571-acre Preddy Creek property in Northern Albemarle into a park.
Airport construction almost done
Construction at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport is entering its final stages.
Mum’s the word on Possible SNL sale
Last month the London Telegraph reported that SNL Financial is up for sale, but so far local confirmation is hard to come by. Sources inside the company report that Chairman Reid Nagle announced that SNL was on the market, but President Mike Chinn had “no comment” on the matter.
RICO Retrial begins Monday, Bryant is lone defendant
In late November, after 10 days of testimony and arguments in federal court, jurors were preparing to go into deliberations in the RICO trial against four alleged members of the Westside Crew (a.k.a. Project Crud), a local gang.
Fifth Street church burns. Was it arson?
At about 11pm on Thursday, May 4, Bishop Rufus Hayes of the Charlottesville Church of Christ was awakened to a telephone call telling him that his church was burning.
By the time he arrived at the church he’s led for 17 years, flames had engulfed the Fifth Street building’s smaller sanctuary and offices, and firefighters were working to keep the main sanctuary from succumbing to the fire.
Architects dis South Lawn
UVA architects have decided to let bygones be bygones on the massive South Lawn project, but they\’re still asking the administration for more discussion about the general course of campus architecture.