Not every town is tickled pink to have Red Light Management get involved in a project. Coran Capshaw’s company won a $120,000 contract in April to conduct a feasibility study for a riverside amphitheater in Roanoke.
Not every town is tickled pink to have Red Light Management get involved in a project. Coran Capshaw’s company won a $120,000 contract in April to conduct a feasibility study for a riverside amphitheater in Roanoke.
Allow me to continue the lovefest that has recently swelled around Virginia Senator Jim Webb (C-VILLE joins in here). As the Democratic primary plays itself out (ohgodpleaseend), VP talk about Webb has increased.
Democrat Tom Perriello, who actually seems to have a chance of unseating Fifth District Congressman Virgil (“No habla espanol”) Goode, will become the official Democratic nominee at the fifth district nominating convention
Months after the November announcement that Daniel P. Jordan, the 24-year veteran and chief executive of Monticello’s governing body, would retire, a press release from the Thomas Jefferson Foundation has announced that Leslie Greene Bowman will take over on November 1 of this year. Bowman’s appointment is timed to coincide with the opening of the 42,000 square foot, $55 million Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center and Smith Education Center.
Peace activist Cindy Sheehan will speak in Charlottesville on May 22. She was last in town almost exactly two years ago…
Les Yeux du Monde, the Water Street art gallery owned and directed by Lyn Warren, will vacate its space on June 30. An exhibit by photographer James Nachtwey, ironically titled “The Unvanquished” and planned as part of the second annual Festival of the Photograph, will be LYDM’s last show, according to Warren.
Back in February, I wrote about the rift between environmental groups over the water supply plan, a riff that revolved around the idea of dredging. That seems to have died down since then, huh?
The new Weekly Standard has a piece on Virginia senator Jim Webb’s legislative attempt to escalate the educational benefits for G.I.s.
Just received an e-mail from Edward Gaynor, the head of Collection Development at the Special Collections Library at UVA, about the UVA Quiz on this week’s cover. I didn’t tell Gaynor this, but I’ve always harbored dreams of becoming a librarian, especially since they’ve become so cool.
A 19-year-old already facing 15 felony charges in Albemarle County now has six more to worry about in Waynesboro.