Cavalier developments? UVA buys 199-acre near-town farm
After two decades of dealing, a sprawling Charlottesville-area farm recently came into the possession of UVA, practically completing a sort of university-owned western wall around Charlottesville and stoking development concerns in the surrounding neighborhoods. By paying $1.575 million to Foxhaven Farm LLC on July 7, the University of Virginia Foundation finished its purchase of the properties long owned by the late Jane and Henderson Heyward.
November 8th, 2012 issue #1145
News
JMU student John Geary decided that as long as he had the sign and costume, he'd exercise his first amendment rights in Charlottesville on the corner favored by protesters ...
All the president's men: Woodward and Bernstein tell all
Forty years after a bungled burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters brought the term "Watergate" into the national lexicon, the two men most responsible ...
Gearing up: Stonefield readies for sports store and more
The first store– Pier One Imports– opened Friday, November 2 at the Shops at Stonefield. Trader Joe's and the Regal theater will follow in the next few weeks, b...
Grave discovery: Dig uncovers forgotten UVA resting place
As novelist William Kennedy's main character in his novel Ironweed–- cemetery worker Francis Phelan–- observes, "the dead, even more than the living, settled do...
HMS Bounty: Nellysford man rescued from sinking ship
The Coast Guard plucked 14 people from the sea October 29 near an area known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic after the tall-ship HMS Bounty took on water and sank in heavy...
It's a wrap: Scenes from the 25th Virginia Film Fest
The badge-wearing moviegoers and filmmakers have cleared out of town and the curtain has gone down on the November 1-4 Virginia Film Festival, with all signs pointing to an...
Libertarian reminder in Crozet
Amid the Romney, Obama, Kaine, Allen, Hurt and Douglass signs at Crozet Elementary on Election Day were two for a candidate we almost had forgotten is on the ballot: former...
Poll position: Tight race puts prof policies in spotlight
With just days to go before the Presidential election, new information released by the State Board of Elections suggests that getting to the polls in Virginia on Election D...
Prelim waived: Crozet mom in court in attempted murder
In her first courtroom appearance since her arrest for the alleged attempted murder of her husband by insulin injection, Theresa Brady, bound by shackles and wearing a red ...
Two former guvs: Kaine and Warner push for Senate
Former governors Tim Kaine and Mark Warner stopped by Democratic headquarters on the Downtown Mall November 1 in a home-stretch push to elect Kaine to the U.S. Senate. "In ...
The Dish
Good-bye, Carmello's; Hello Mex... and meals tax hike?
Last February, Carmello's, the venerable Italian restaurant that was located for 19 years at its familiar Emmet Street location next to the EconoLodge, moved to Fontaine Av...
Essays
Flex time: Raise (and lower) the speed limits
By Greg Beato In the wide open plains of central Texas, a new addition to State Highway 130 has just opened for business with a compelling marketing hook: Its speed limit ...
Letters
Historians expect deference on TJ's cruelty
To back up her accusation that I have misled my readers, Cinder Stanton refers darkly, and very vaguely, to truncated quotations, twisted chronology, unnamed misinterpretat...
