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.)
The black granite façade of the former Boxer Learning Center, where the nine-story Landmark Hotel is rising, is one step closer to demolition.
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.
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.
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.
What records of yesterday will you buy again tomorrow?
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.
On Saturday, McCain adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer said McCain would do well in the “real Virginia” which, by her definition, means anyplace south of NoVa. Which would seem to include the heavily Obama-leaning Charlottesville, no?
It’s been five months since Satellite Ballroom closed, yet the Facebook group, “Coran Capshaw, Save Satellite Ballroom!” still has 1,000 members, says Cavalier Daily columnist Isaac Wood, which just shows how urgently Charlottesville needs a mid-sized music venue. Wood’s solution: Get the University Programs Council (UPC) involved.