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Make up your mind
If, as G.I. Joe once told us, “knowing is half the battle,” then what is the other half? Charlottesville is one of the brainiest cities in the country—which means, presumably, that we know a lot. The irony? We don’t know how our collective brainpower works. Local entrepreneur Jeff Gunther describes his OpenSpace business as a [...]
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Kluge lenders pour it on
If local land were local wine, then Vineyard Estates—a luxury real estate development envisioned by Patricia Kluge and Bill Moses—might be corked
Will amphetamines form basis of Huguely defense?
On the morning of May 3, during the same hour that Charlottesville police arrested George Huguely in connection with the death of classmate and ex-girlfriend Yeardley Love
Tom Skalak a candidate for CalPoly presidency
Thomas Skalak, UVA’s Vice President for Research since 2008, helped bring more than $30 million in grants to the school prior to his promotion. Now, the school may need to boost Skalak’s $275,000 annual salary to keep its lead innovator in town.
Protective orders discussed as Huguely nears trial
According to a report presented to the commission, there are roughly 15,000 final protective orders at any given time in Virginia.
Some assembly required
In the middle of my interview with local architect and developer Bill Atwood, I realize that his shirt is improperly buttoned. At first, I take the jaunt of his collar as part of the overall look—black Ray-Ban Wayfarers, white hair that has grown comfortable with disarray. Think Jim Jarmusch, or Ric Ocasek. “You’re not going [...]
Ragged Mountain dam needs a closer look
Citizen advocate group protests after being denied entry to a panel review of Ragged Mountain water dam
Regional jail grant for "criminal aliens" grows
The Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail was awarded more than $55,000 in federal cash for housing "undocumented criminal aliens" in the last fiscal year.
Dam it all
If the city won’t build a new dam at Ragged Mountain, then the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority
Give a buck, or give up?
Early this summer, a concern among some local businesses about increased panhandling led City Council to further restrict begging on the Downtown Mall, despite an absence of police citations for such problems. Now, panhandling citations are up on the Mall, while a program developed by the Downtown Business Association (DBA) and the Thomas Jefferson Area [...]
Morgan Harrington's mom keeps local vigil
Minutes before 9pm on October 17, 2009, somewhere between the entrance to the John Paul Jones Arena and the Copeley Road bridge where she was last spotted
Martha Jefferson merger could swap patient approval for tech update
Independent, local hospital merges with larger not-for-profit in hopes of constraining costs, expanding services.
DMB, Big Brothers reopen Westhaven Afterschool Program
For the first time in years, when school opened at Burnley-Moran Elementary, the Westhaven Afterschool Program remained closed. Former program director Harold Folley told C-VILLE in June that a grant administered by the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors since 2007 was no longer available, and he hoped to find more funds to reopen the program during the [...]
Breaking his silence after a staffer's suicide, Ted Genoways depicts pressures at VQR and answers the charge that he bullied Kevin Morrissey to death
Among the questions unanswered in the wake of the suicide of Kevin Morrissey, the managing editor of the University of Virginia’s critically acclaimed Virginia Quarterly Review, is this one: What is it like to share an office with Ted Genoways? ; Within days of Morrissey’s July 30 death from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, anonymous critics [...]
City Council approves water plan with 42′ dam, dredging RFP
This afternoon, council meets with Albemarle Board of Supervisors, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority and Albemarle County Service Authority to discuss next step
Winter issue of VQR cancelled
Plans for the Winter 2010 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review were in place by April, around the time editor Ted Genoways received a Guggenheim Fellowship for a project on American poet Walt Whitman and the Civil War. While Genoways was on leave, two organizers of the annual LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph—co-founder Nick Nichols [...]
Clark withdraws offer to withdraw congressional bid
Two days after he offered to withdraw his third-party bid for the Fifth District Congressional seat, Jeffrey Clark—who launched his campaign when a GOP primary selected Virginia Senator Robert Hurt as the Republican opposition to Democrat Tom Perriello—has his game face on again. Jeffrey Clark, independent candidate for Virginia’s Fifth District Congressional seat, wrote in [...]
Sunset/Fontaine Connector gets new study
When the Albemarle County Planning Commission unanimously approved the 54-acre rezoning of UVA’s Fontaine Research Park in July
Well, we still need water
For both fans and foes of the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority’s (RWSA) 50-year Community Water Supply Plan, glasses will remain half-full or half-empty until expansion studies of the Ragged Mountain Reservoir and Lower Ragged Mountain Dam are completed. On Friday, the RWSA released a review of engineering firm Gannett Fleming’s 2004 water demand analysis, [...]
Could tax rebate seal Waterhouse deal?
Thanks to actions last week by Charlottesville City Council and the Board of Architectural Review (BAR), architect Bill Atwood’s Waterhouse project has quickly thawed from glacier to geyser. One day after council unanimously signed off on its first resolution for a tax increment financing rebate—don’t worry, we’ll explain it in the third paragraph—the BAR approved [...]
John Hunter rumored as a speaker at TED conference
Local gifted education teacher John Hunter spent the end of July at the annual EduStat conference, where he was a featured speaker alongside a former chief learning officer for the Central Intelligence Agency and the co-founder of JetBlue Airways. By the following week, the subject of local filmmaker Chris Farina’s documentary World Peace…and Other Fourth [...]
Kendall Singleton expands UVA garden, composting
A few weeks ago, Kendall Singleton returned home from an unplanned trip to Earlysville’s Panorama Farms to find she was down to the last of her weekly community supported agriculture (CSA) produce—onions, basil and garlic from Nelson County, but no centerpiece. A quick shopping trip later, and she had a bit of Twin Oaks tofu [...]
Investigators say hundreds of ghostly voices speak out in this Gordonsville hotel
Mark Higgins’ Mystery Machine is a white Chevy Trailblazer with a “Ghost Hunter” license plate holder, but we’re not blazing trails or hunting ghosts yet. Instead, we’re stuck 10 miles from Pantops Mountain on Route 231, a two-lane road that leads to Gordonsville and to one of the most “active” sites Higgins has investigated: the [...]
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VQR editor Ted Genoways retains lawyer as lit mag pushes toward deadline [UPDATE]
On July 30, Kevin Morrissey called the police to report a shooting near the coal tower on Water Street.
Warrant, lawsuits await Jim Baldi's return
More than two months after Bel Rio owner Jim Baldi asked local artist Chris Butler to display his paintings and pen-and-ink work inside Baldi’s Belmont club, Butler returned to take his work from the walls. By then, Bel Rio had been closed for nearly two weeks, and its owner—the subject of a $300,000 fraud lawsuit [...]
FBI looking for Jim Baldi, too?
From former clients of his Virginia Payroll & Tax business to the Virginia Department of Taxation, more than a few folks would like to know the whereabouts of Jim Baldi. Baldi, who also owns the Belmont club Bel Rio, now shuttered, slipped out of Charlottesville during the last few weeks without a trace, apparently. Other [...]