County Executive Bob Tucker isn’t as silly as he seemed when he went through with a Board of Supervisors work session June 11 on whether to make the minutes of Board meetings “summary†instead of “near-verbatimâ€: He was able to extract $35,000 from supervisors for additional staff to transcribe Board minutes.
County Executive Bob Tucker isn’t as silly as he seemed when he went through with a Board of Supervisors work session June 11 on whether to make the minutes of Board meetings “summary†instead of “near-verbatimâ€: He was able to extract $35,000 from supervisors for additional staff to transcribe Board minutes.
A Fifeville house in the midst of renovations went up in smoke today. According to city spokesman Ric Barrick, three workers left 1004 King St. around 12:30pm. Around 2pm, a 911 call alerted city emergency personnel of the blaze, which did extensive damage and took off much of the roof of the white stucco dwelling.
Jefferson Area Drug Enforcement Task Force (JADE) officers have arrested two men and confiscated a lot of drugs and a lot of cash. Last night at around 7pm on the 300 block of 10th Street NW, officers arrested Murray Lee Hill, a 51-year-old Charlottesville man, along with 28-year-old Maurice Edgehill of New York City.
An unidentified man was taken to the UVA Medical Center on Tuesday afternoon following an attack that left him with serious wounds in the abdomen.
Last night, at the Toliver House restaurant in charming Gordonsville, about 50 people gathered to celebrate the bounty of food and drink that’s locally produced. The Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) sponsored the four-course dinner, but attention fell mostly on the farmers (and distillers, winemakers and ice-cream producers) in attendance, and the food they’d created.
Don’t expect to find any pot around here for a long time. According to The Daily Progress, a Scottsville woman pleaded guilty to growing more than 50 marijuana plants.
This time yesterday Jason Hoffman was sitting behind a table in Charlottesville’s circuit court listening to two attorneys discuss what happened to him one night last summer.
What do we do when the housing market horse kicks us off? Well, we’re not sure yet, but that bronco is bucking. The Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors released its market report for the first quarter of 2008, and while residential properties are moving, they’re not selling for what owners might anticipate.
UVA announced this morning that its Dean of Admission, John Blackburn, will retire one year from now in June 2009. He’s been the university’s longest-serving admissions dean, having held the position since 1985. Blackburn was also an associate dean of admissions for six years before taking the reins of the admissions office. He is 66 years old.