Local mogul Coran Capshaw has committed to donate $6,000 a month for a work crew to improve landscaping around the entrances to Albemarle County. The program will allow inmates to work for “time off” from their sentences. Inmates who are jailed for non-violent crimes for sentences less than two years qualify, according to Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional […]
A man was killed in a single-vehicle accident after robbing Cavalier Pipe and Tobacco in the Barracks Road shopping center last week—another reminder that it’s always a bad idea to flee police in your car. In this case, the officers hadn’t even mounted a chase. Albemarle police spotted a Jeep Cherokee driving without its lights […]
Police arrested 28-year-old Damiris Lamont Wilson on Thursday, June 29 for two robberies that took place hours apart early that same morning at the Quality Inn on Emmet Street and the Red Carpet Inn at Premier Circle. In both cases, Wilson is accused of wielding a knife and escaping with an undisclosed amount of money. […]
The contentious melee that mired the State legislature in a three-month delay\-he longest everâfinally reached some sort of resolution on Wednesday, June 28 when members of the Virginia House of Delegates approved a $72 billion state budget (minus $22 million Republicans stripped out at the last minute).
Few are the reasons we would interrupt an architect on charette, that deadline-crazed period just before a design is due, but when we heard that Judith Kinnard was getting ready to meet Brad Pitt, well, we had to give the UVA architecture prof a call. O.K., she’s not exactly getting ready to meet Mr. World […]
In the spring, UVA football head coach Al Groh publicly acknowledged that the team had to do some “significant rebuilding.” And in sports, “rebuilding” is almost always used to lower fan expectations for the coming season. Indeed, preseason guides by Sporting News and Lindy’s pick UVA to finish in the lower portion of the ACC, […]
As UVA’s School of Nursing plans to expand, its leadership is receiving some high accolades. Nursing School Dean Jeanette Lancaster was recently named a finalist for the “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare,” a survey sponsored by Modern Healthcare Magazine. Final results of the survey won’t be announced until August, but Lancaster is already flexing […]
Finally. New Charlottesville School Superintendent Rosa Atkins got to start her job on July 3, more than 14 months after the school board accepted the resignation of former superintendent Scottie Griffin. Atkins recently finished her duties as assistant superintendent in Caroline County. “It feels good to start full force in Charlottesville,” she says. In this edited interview, Atkins explains why she\’s so fired up about learning.
Fifth District Congressman Virgil Goode is trying to make political hay with the debate over illegal immigration, but so far his litany of bills isn’t going anywhere. In the current congressional term, Goode has co-sponsored 11 bills and three resolutions that target illegal immigrants. All the bills, however, are stuck in committee and did not […]
At their last meeting, the Albemarle County School Board closed a loophole in their beverage policy that had allowed student groups and athletic boosters to sell snack bars and soft drinks. A group of students from Western Albemarle High School, concerned about nutrition issues, precipitated the change by informing School Board member Brian Wheeler of […]