Nineteen-year-old Marcel McArthur Turner of Riverside Avenue in Charlottesville turned himself in to police on Monday, August 21, after shooting and wounding another Charlottesville man. Turner shot the victim, Earl Dudley, who was riding in a car near the intersection of Carlton and Nassau streets in the Belmont neighborhood.
Following the Charlottesville Board of Architectural Review’s June approval of “Waterhouse”-he nine-story tower to be built between Water and South streetsâCharlottesville Tomorrow Executive Director Brian Wheeler wrote a letter to try to persuade Mayor David Brown to preserve two adjoining Water Street parking lots. One is the current location of the City Market.
Of any area in Charlottesville, Pantops—with its many car dealerships and strip malls lining Route 250 East—would seem an unlikely candidate for the planning stage (at least, at this point). […]
The recent approval of the preliminary site plan for Albemarle Place leaves developers Landonomics eager to make themselves at home in Charlottesville. Roll out the welcome wagon, Charlottesville, it’s time […]
Foundation has built 120 shelters for Katrina victims —with more on the wayEven before Hurricane Katrina made landfall last August, Pearlington, Mississippi, was a hurting town. Located 45 miles northeast […]
The ghosts of Albemarle County’s agricultural and industrial past haunt the Crozet headquarters of Musictoday. The company is housed in the ConAgra building, a hulking structure built in 1953 to house the packaging operations of Morton’s Frozen Foods.
Local State legislators met with County officials last week, preparing for the upcoming legislative session (the last one before the November election). Sen. Creigh Deeds, Sen. Emmett Hanger, Del. Robert […]
Independent Senate candidate Gail “For Rail” Parker’s got a steady platform to build rail across Virginia, which she says will reduce emissions, save lives and even fix Iraq (less oil, […]
Last February, Mitchell Wade, the former head of defense contractor MZM, pleaded guilty to paying California Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham more than $1 million in bribes in exchange for government […]