Mayor Norris got engaged and shaved off his beard. When you wonder “who is that chipper-looking handsome stranger?”, look again.
[...]Mayor Norris got engaged and shaved off his beard. When you wonder “who is that chipper-looking handsome stranger?”, look again.
[...]It’s not just Glenmore: Mill Creek’s treasurer has been arrested for embezzlement, too. You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.
[...]Charlottesville’s Dr. Gregg Korbon told the story of how Brian C. Korbon Little League Field got its name on NPR this morning. John Borgmeyer named this as the best story recorded by StoryCorps here in 2005.
[...]Hollymead Town Center isn’t the paragon of pedestrian friendliness that it’s touted as, Erika Howsare writes in the current C-Ville Weekly. Years after the development went in, Howsare tried to take a stroll to the shopping center from the townhouses that make the place ostensibly mixed-use. It did not [...]
Local filmmaker Eric Hurt has won Organizing for America’s competition to create short films about the paucity of affordable family health care, Brian McNeill writes in today’s Daily Progress. A thousand films were submitted, with a blue-ribbon panel naming this one the best. It was shot at Riverview Park.
Angry protesters are driving away customers to businesses next door to Rep. Perriello’s office, and they’re demanding that Perriello relocate his office to a place where they can more easily picket him.
[...]The Victory Shoes façade has been illegally demolished, Dave McNair wrote in The Hook a few days ago. (Here’s how it looked when the shoe store was still in business.) One of the few remaining examples of art deco architecture in town, the building—just to the left of [...]
Adopt a needy family for Christmas. I’ve done this—it’s guaranteed elevation.
[...]West Main business owns are pushing for a charrette on the history of the corridor, Rachana Dixit writes in today’s Daily Progress. (For those who aren’t familiar with the process, Wikipedia provides a good definition. It’s basically when a bunch of stakeholders get together and try to collaboratively [...]
President George W. Bush has assented to participate in the Miller Center’s ongoing presidential history project, The Daily Progress reports. Every president since Carter has been interviewed—along with hundreds of administration officials—for their Presidential Oral History Program, which has used that extraordinary level of access to create an [...]
The Cavalier Daily is scaling back the number of issues they’ll publish each year, they announced in today’s lead editorial, going from 136 down to 131, or thereabouts. It’s a financial decision, a result of decreased advertising revenue, so they’re eliminating five Friday papers, the day that generates the [...]
My brother’s second “deer hunting for locavores” class starts on Sunday, and there are still slots available. It’s $50, with neither experience nor a rifle of your own required.
[...]Albemarle financial situation is worsening, the the $4.7M shortfall now up to $5.7M.
[...]This is a fun audio profile of erstwhile Toscano opponent R.B. Smith. Also, I like to say “erstwhile.”
[...]Democrats have won all of the Charlottesville elections, unsurprisingly. Delegate David Toscano easily defeated independent challenger R.B. Smith, James E. Brown bested independent Paul Best in the sheriff’s race, and Mayor Dave Norris secured reelection while ticket-mate Kristin Szakos joined him in defeating independents Bob Fenwick and Paul Long. [...]
Both Republicans running for the Albemarle Board of Supervisors have won: Duane Snow in the Samuel Miller district and Rodney Thomas in the Rio district.
Snow was in a three-way race against Democrat Madison Cummings and independent John Lowry, all vying for a seat vacated by [...]
A PAC called “Albemarle Citizens Against Racism” political action committee just registered yesterday, according to the Virginia Public Access Project, with the stated goal of defeating Rodney Thomas. (He’s the Republican running against incumbent David Slutzky in the Rio district in today’s election.) In violation of state campaign [...]
I’m kind of excited about “Secretly, Y’all,” a new storytelling collective. On Nov. 15, a bunch of strangers will get together and tell stories on a theme of “crazy,” in the style of “The Moth.”
[...]There are all sorts of elections on Tuesday. Statewide, we’ve got the governor’s race (Democrat Creigh Deeds vs. Republican Bob McDonnell), the lieutenant governor’s race (Republican Bill Bolling vs. Democrat Jody Wagner), and attorney general (Democrat Steve Shannon vs. Republican Ken Cuccinelli). There are also a pair of House of [...]
Waldo Jaquith, Matthew Farrell
