City market: looking like a million bucks
It’s official: the farmer’s market is no podunk operation. Last weekend, the Charlottesville City Market passed the $1 million sales mark for the season. That’s a lot of carrots.
The name of this Republican band is talking heads
Paste Magazine compiles the best band names from the speeches of McCain and Palin. Add your own!
Setback to where you once belonged
So, anyone else being totally cheap about turning on the heat? We have vowed, with a certain amount of false bravado, that we won’t fire ours up until Thanksgiving. (Check in with me on Election Day and see how that’s going.)
BAR allows Landmark Hotel developers to kill granite facade
The black granite façade of the former Boxer Learning Center, where the nine-story Landmark Hotel is rising, is one step closer to demolition.
Hunter Craig buys Wachovia building for $6.7M
Not everyone is in retreat mode during the current economic climate. A limited liability company managed by local developer Hunter Craig has purchased the Wachovia building on the Downtown Mall for $6.65 million.
Let’s hear it for freecycle!
And, while we’re at it, let’s hear it for Apartment Therapy Re-Nest, one of my favorite green-living blogs. A while ago on Re-Nest I spotted this post, about turning a reclaimed futon frame into a lovely, Japanese-ish front gate for a city house.
City of Charlottesville abandons planned ambulance service
After a year and a half of reports, debates and recrimination, the city has decided to abandon its plans for an ambulance service run by the fire department, according to a report this weekend by NBC29 as well as a story in today’s Daily Progress.
The Roots and Yoda: Who are the old-school masters?
What records of yesterday will you buy again tomorrow?
Albemarle murder suspect arrested in Maryland
The suspect in the September 30 homicide on Commonwealth Drive has at last been apprehended. Daniel Lee Dove, a 28-year-old Louisa County resident, was arrested in Hyattsville, Maryland, at around 11am this morning by U.S. Marshals.