Glass act: A local winery’s new tasting room is all bottled up
The empty bottles were piling up at Free Union’s Glass House Winery. The recycling service that co-owners Jeff and Michelle Saunders relied on for years had begun hauling the glass […]
In brief: Neo-Nazi battle, minimum wage raise, Landes and Galvin decide, and more
Who’s head neo-Nazi? James Hart Stern, a black activist, claims he had taken over the National Socialist Movement and filed a motion February 28 accepting liability in the August 12-related […]
In brief: Rotunda breakage, budget burdens, alleged perv and more
Breaking news On the first of the month, UVA students rallied outside of the Rotunda, where the Board of Visitors was set to discuss living wage for university employees. While […]
YOU Issue: Single-stream recycling
Here’s what readers asked for: I’ve heard that it’s all a sham and it all just goes into a landfill, that the processes are super inefficient compared to regular recycling […]
Van der Linde dumps its recycling program
By Natalie Jacobsen On February 19, the area’s main transfer station for trash and recycling haulers, Van der Linde Recycling, abruptly shuttered its household waste processing facility. The sudden halt […]