Tuesday, January 11 DNC gives Kaine a $5M kiss National Democratic Party chair Terry McAuliffe today announced that the DNC would contribute an unprecedented $5 million to Lt. Governor Tim Kaine’s gubernatorial campaign. Calling Kaine “the future of this party,” McAuliffe said, “he’s a pro-business Democrat, a man of strong faith and values and is […]
Tuesday, January 11 DNC gives Kaine a $5M kiss National Democratic Party chair Terry McAuliffe today announced that the DNC would contribute an unprecedented $5 million to Lt. Governor Tim Kaine’s gubernatorial campaign. Calling Kaine “the future of this party,” McAuliffe said, “he’s a pro-business Democrat, a man of strong faith and values and is […]
Tuesday, January 4 CHO-DET route announced Flying to Motown will get easier for folks around here when Northwest Airlines begins twice-daily direct service to Detroit in April. The airline’s decision was announced at a news conference today at the airport. Northwest will be the fourth carrier to operate out of CHO, assuming that United and […]
Tuesday, December 28 Presumed romantic entanglement ends in death Schuyler resident Dwayne Scott Wyland was arrested in the early-morning hours in connection with the shooting death of Timothy Wayne Wilkerson, also of Schuyler, according to a report in The Daily Progress. Wyland, who is 40, is being held in the regional jail on two charges, […]
Special short-deadline holiday edition Tuesday, December 21 Street kid gets 28 years for non-fatal shooting Gamar Leander Turner, a black Charlottesville man whom his attorney described as a “product of the streets,” according to a report by James Fernald in The Daily Progress, was today sentenced on three charges related to a 2003 Fifeville shooting. […]
Tuesday, December 14 Bank move adjacent to Meadow Creek approved Charlottesville Planning Commissioners tonight approved a site plan submitted by Union Bank and Trust to relocate its Barracks Road-area branch to a site near Meadow Creek. According to a report by John Yellig in The Daily Progress, the bank, which earlier this year acquired Guaranty […]
Tuesday, December 7 Driver cited for hit-and-run Acting, they said, on a couple of Crimestoppers tips, Albemarle County Police today charged a Free Union man with felony hit-and-run. Nineteen-year-old Liza Jones was struck on Earlysville Road late on November 29 as she crawled from her wrecked car. She had been proceeding north on the winding […]
Tuesday, November 30 Guv urges fitness Mark Warner’s two-day Summit on Healthy Virginians wrapped up this afternoon with a visit from the trim guv himself. Addressing several hundred people, Warner reiterated the state’s dire obesity figures and identified a trio of target groups for improved health—State employees, school children and Medicaid recipients. Warner characterized the […]
Tuesday, November 23 Poetry site gets NEA nod Senator George Allen’s office announces today that Poetry Daily, a locally produced poetry website (www.poems.com), has been granted $7,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts. The grant marks the second dollop of NEA money this year for the site, a 7-year-old project of Don Selby and […]
Tuesday, November 16 Giving voice to the beakless While the drive-through window remained busy, a pair of young activists from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals appeared outside the Emmet Street KFC this noon, dangling rubber chickens and holding signs that read “KFC tortures chickens” and “Boycott KFC.” Activist Kat Erdel wore a flat-screen […]
Tuesday, November 9 Big bucks for Virginia Virginia is sitting on a pot of money for the first time in four years. Members of the General Assembly today met at the Boar’s Head Inn to discuss what to do with the cash. The bulk of the bounce in revenue results from Northern Virginia cashing in […]