Barking dogs in the People’s Republic
If you’re inclined to compare local government to totalitarian regimes, at least be hip about it.
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County staff gets $35K to keep near-verbatim 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.
Blaze claims Fifeville house
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.
Police seize $34K and 200 grams of crack
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.
Updated 4:11pm: Man, stabbed in abdomen, has emergency surgery
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.
Farmers and foodies eat a royal local feast
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.
War on Drugs Won
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.
Corner brawl between Hoffmans and UVA wrestlers nets two misdemeanor pleas
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.
CAAR releases market report
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.