We’re now into the second month of our highly selective tour through the past two decades of local news and arts in C-VILLE. Already, we’ve touted our early jump on the Obama bandwagon (remember, this is the paper that projected DMB’s rise to the top), and revisited Market Street Wineshop’s Robert Harllee’s secret to staying warm—below the belt—in the winter, just to name a few things. So stay tuned as we keep looking back at the accumulated pluck and pizzazz that will power this still free and still free-thinking institution into the next 20 years.
Paging through the archives
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“Local real estate professionals, through their association, The Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors (CAAR) now have their own mass circulation publication. The Charlottesville Area Real Estate Weekly, its first issue fifty-six pages long…hit the street February 12. …Faced with a weak housing market, a perception of high advertising rates at the daily paper, and a wish for a publication they could call their own, CAAR may be joining a trend toward association-owned publications. ‘I expect that in the next two years, it’ll be a huge trend,’ says Christopher E. Haring, who manages a real estate weekly in Asheville, North Carolina, for the association that owns it. ‘I’ve talked to 50 or 60 [real estate groups] who are doing the same thing.’”
February 10, 1992
Getting covered
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Ah, remember the good old days when our housing crisis was merely that the darn things were ridiculously expensive? Our June 8, 2004 cover story got to the heart of the difficulty of affording a house in Charlottesville. Now our reporters’ searchlights are trained on the fact that for some people it’s not about buying new homes, but about trying to keep the ones they have. “Get over it” is a phrase we’ll put aside for now.
