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.”
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.”
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.
Construction at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport is entering its final stages.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All right, so you may not have attended “Mr. Jefferson’s University” as an undergrad. Maybe you don’t have a “degree,” or a “job,” but that doesn’t mean you can’t come out and join the celebration during Finals Weekend 2006. And why not show a little love for the grads? It’s not like this is Durham or something.
A change can do a body good. And a refreshing change is what Hawes Spencer hopes will come to the mixed-use Jefferson Theater building, the Downtown stalwart and second-run movie palace, now that he is selling it to local megadeveloper Coran Capshaw.