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 The Albemarle County Sheriff’s Office hopes to have 200 qualified volunteers for its search and rescue unit by summer.

Ergonomics matter when it comes to recycling.

My first sports event was when as a five year old I saw the Baltimore Orioles in their 1954 debut. I have been a sports fan ever since. My recall of hundreds of games is a bit of a blurred continuum. Mostly I can recall great dramatic moments.

Rose Brown on what the Zero Garbage Challenge means for disposables.

The average size of a new single-family house in the United States grew from less than 1,000 sq. ft. in 1950 to 2,521 sq. ft. in 2007, according to the United States Census Bureau. That was the peak year. By 2010, the average size shrank to 2,392 sq. ft., and experts in the industry predict […]

Real Estate Related News Real Estate Weekly Celebrates 20 Years  In September 1997, I approached Mary Sproles Martin, editorial coordinator for the then five-year-old Real Estate Weekly, about a freelance writing job. I had been in Charlottesville for a little over two years and was working part-time as an assistant to a local builder but […]

Let’s say you like everything about your house—location, size, sunlight, yard, floor plan, and so on. Maybe you’ve lived there for years, or maybe you’re about to buy it. But it has no fireplace. Can you add one? How difficult is it, how much does it cost, and how much resale value does it add? […]

The Miller Center launches online presidential resource in celebration of Presidents Day

Appalachian Voices’ Tom Cormons on why you should care about the SCC.

Where I grew up it was never hard to get something done that wasn’t quite mainstream.

Need something fixed without a permit or license?  No problem.

The reason?

Because everybody had a guy who knew a guy.