Tuesday, January 3Preservation and zoning at odds on Rugby Tonight City Councilors discussed options for a design control district in the Rugby/Venable area. The City wants to give its Board of Architec-tural Review purview over development in the district, and to restrict demolition in the neighborhood. This move toward preservation conflicts, however, with a 2003 […]
Tuesday, December 27 Monticello receives TJ’s old chairs Today Monticello announced that curators of Thomas Jefferson’s house recently received a pair of centuries-old armchairs that once belonged to Charlottesville’s favorite son. TJ bought the neoclassical curved-back chairs to furnish the townhouse he rented while living in Paris as an ambassador in the 1780s. According to […]
Tuesday, December 20 Charter school proposed for troubled students Tonight, the Charlottesville City School Board heard a proposal for a charter school, grades 5 through 8. The proposal, advanced by Bobbi Snow, addresses the needs of kids having the most trouble in school—typically two years or more behind their classmates. Snow has already squared away […]
Tuesday, December 13 Casteen keeps checking cheddar for UVA Jay-Z would say UVA president John Casteen checks cheddar like a food in-spector. Today the school’s prez celebrated news of a $45 million gift—the largest in school history—from the Ivy Foundation of Charlottesville. The money is earmarked for biomedical research, and the news comes on the […]
Tuesday, December 6 UVA football co-captain reaches new high Today, Tony Franklin, a defensive starter on the UVA football team, received an early Christ-mas present: a court summons charging him with possession of marijuana. The Daily Pro-gress reported that the team co-captain faces a misdemeanor possession charge, indicating that the officer found less than 14 […]
Tuesday, November 29 For once, Dulles looks good Travelers headed for Charlottesville were still stranded today, thanks to bad weather and a computer glitch. The Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport cancelled flights yesterday and today due to a combination of heavy rain and the malfunctioning of the airport’s instrument landing system, which helps pilots land when there is […]
Tuesday, November 22 Breedens sell land, get rich overnight Two months after C-VILLE reported the rumor, The Daily Progress today confirmed that the Breeden family has officially sold their 1,353 acres of prime property just south of town to Forest Lodge LLC. Price tag? An eye-popping $46.2 million. The man behind the LLC is developer […]
Tuesday, November 15VFF gets a shot in the arm Today, the Virginia Film Festival announced that it was to receive a $15,000 grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—its second. VFF is in good company, as the Academy awarded a total of $300,000 to 19 separate film festivals, including New York, Chicago […]
Tuesday, November 8 Four men narrowly escape death Westbound traffic on Interstate 64 came to a standstill today due to an accident involving a Saturn sedan and a semi truck. The crash occurred when the Saturn, carrying three men, suddenly swerved in front of the Freightliner truck while trying to make a U-turn in an […]
Tuesday, November 1Bypass could waste money A study released today reports that 67 percent of the traffic on 29N is local, meaning that a proposed bypass through Western Albemarle County would do little to ease traffic congestion on the highway. Albemarle County and State officials collaborated on the survey, and the results will be used […]