City on a hill: Is Staunton the next Charlottesville?
City on a hill: Is Staunton the next Charlottesville?
For many it's a Sunday ritual: Pour a cup of coffee and relax with the New York Times travel section for a vicarious trip to some exotic destination. Paris... Bucharest... Fiji... Staunton, Virginia. Huh? Yes, Staunton. The little burg on the other side of the mountains– which many Charlottesville residents consider merely home to a jail, to Western State Hospital, and to the Statler Brothers– Staunton glowed as the lead travel story in the August 10 edition of the New York Times.
Know thy Queen: Fast facts and Stauntonalia
Poking around in Staunton's historic closet yields some interesting and downright strange tidbits. Here are just a few examples, plus a few answers to those pesky frequently asked questions. Why is Staunton pronounced "Stanton" when it looks like it should be "Stawnton"?
Staunton's facelift isn't cheap. Check out this partial tab for some of the Queen City's downtown revitalization projects: Beverley Street infrastructure rehab: $3.5 million New parking garage: $4.5 million Blackfriars Playhouse: $3.7 million RR Smith Center for History and the Arts: $2.5 million New Dixie Theater (The Staunton Performing Arts Center): $5 million Stonewall Jackson Hotel and Conference Center: $19.3 million
4Better Or Worse
Most wedding bells ringing: Hundreds of gay couples line up at City Hall in San Francisco on February 12 after the city starts issuing licenses and performing weddings for ...
The Dish
Branching out: Five, six, another Sticks!
Chris DuBois must be glad to have Dish off his kebob case. You see, for the past six months or so I've been buzzing like a pesky fly around Sticks– which he owns with...
Essays
Sox lid: A hat is not just a hat
It's almost time for major league baseball's spring training to begin. Until this year, I have never really paid attention to spring training because I've never really been...
Question of the Week
What do you think of Staunton?
Noah Comarovschi: "It's almost as exciting as Harrisonburg. I think it's a horrible place. I know some good people from there, but they all moved to Charlottesville." An...
Real Estate
February 19, at 2:30pm, at the Fluvanna County Courthouse Property: 1595 Oliver Creek Road, Troy Debtor: unknown Amount owing: $99,907 Bidder brings: $8,000 or 10 percent ...
Real Estate - $old
ALBEMARLE 11/04 Molly Jane S. and Sarah A. Osborne, Trustees, to James E. and Joan C. Newton, 11 Ednam Village, $460,000. Southland Homes Inc. to Ben and Karen Thom...
Real Estate - On the Block
Hill and grace: Ednam Forest is all that
ADDRESS: 500 Rookwood Place ASKING: $1,500,000 SIZE: 3726 fin. sq. ft. 100 unfin. YEAR BUILT: 1983 NEIGHBORHOOD: Ednam Forest CURB APPEAL: 7 out of a possible 10 LISTED BY:...
Movie Reviews
Maine event: Retiring president v. plumber
Maine is famous for two things: Stephen King and everything else. Welcome to Mooseport isn't likely to change that. This election-year comedy about an election would have b...
Music Reviews
Local showcase: Bucks, Gallants, and Folks...
Folkskonde and Bucks and Gallantsat Plan 9's Outer SpaceSunday, February 15 This year's WTJU (91.1) Rock Marathon– that all too brief week where the daytime op...
Mouse or Beatle?: Listen, then you decide
DJ Danger Mouse:The Grey Album What do you get when you cross the greatest rock band in history with the greatest hip-hop artist in history? We now know the answer. ...
News
Cheese reprieve: Delay good news for feisty farmers
For most Virginians, the Commonwealth's budget crisis is a dark cloud. But for Christine Solem and John Coles, producers of raw goat milk cheese, that cloud has a definite ...
DontGivetoUVA.com: Gay grads solicit UVA donors
It's a constant sore point for gay UVA employees: They don't get the same benefits for their family that their heterosexual coworkers do. Two recent UVA grads, fed up with ...
Ecoterrorism: ELF "targets" Hollymead Center
They burned a mountaintop restaurant in Vail. They released mink from a farm in Pennsylvania. They defaced SUVs in Richmond. And now, members of the Earth Liberation Front&...
Excommunicated: AOL blocks Pope mail
When Charlottesville resident Keith Rosenfeld forwarded a link to a humorous article titled "Pope on a Pogo Stick" to a friend of his, he figured his buddy would get a good...
Free at last? Fridays future depends on Plaza
Charlottesville's beloved and beleaguered summertime tradition, Fridays After 5, faces another obstacle this season: construction of a federally funded transit center sched...
Sky's the limit: Castle Hill could set record
After Monticello, Castle Hill is probably the most famous property in Albemarle County. And like that presidential icon, Castle Hill's history is inextricably entwined with...
Slippery slope: Site work irks neighbors
If Charlottesville cohousers were dead, they might be rolling over in their graves. That's because the five-acre parcel they used to own at the end of St. Charles Avenue no...
The Brazen Careerist
Tell a lie: Talk yourself into advancing
Maybe it's time to set aside all those "know yourself" advice books and try lying to yourself about who you are. You are a finance whiz. You are a sales guru. You are a bri...
Strange But True
Just kidding!: Escaping the psych ward
DRAWING BY DEBORAH DERR McCLINTOCK Q. Imagine you were somehow mistakenly committed to a psychiatric hospital. Would the staff catch it? Would you be able to talk your way...
Facetime
Hill historian: O'Shaughnessy's revolution
Something is rotten in the Jefferson Library at Monticello. But it isn't a newly discovered 18th century scandal– no, a small animal has crawled into the ventilation ...
Hotseat
Kenneth Jackson: Not your stereotypical Republican
He's African American. He's gay. He lives in Section 8 housing. So why is Kenneth Jackson running for City Council as a Republican? Jackson doesn't put too much stock in po...
Letters
I was alarmed to read of the apparent conspiracy to oust Meredith Richards from the City Council [February 12: "Upset: 'Stop Meredith' move ousts Richards"]. As a delegate ...
As a favor to your photographer Jen Fariello, I reluctantly agreed to have my photo and answer to your Question of the Week published. [February 5: "What do you know about ...
Full Stories List for February 19th, 2004 issue #0307
4Better Or Worse
Essays
Cover Stories
Facetime
Fearless Consumer
Hotseat
Letters
Movie Reviews
Music Reviews
News
Photophile
Question of the Week
Real Estate
Real Estate - $old
Real Estate - On the Block
Strange But True
The Brazen Careerist
The Dish
COVER- City on a hill: Is Staunton the next Charlottesville?
COVER STORY SIDEBAR- Know thy Queen: Fast facts and Stauntonalia
NEWSBIZ- Cheese reprieve: Delay good news for feisty farmers
REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Hill and grace: Ednam Forest is all that
THE BRAZEN CAREERIST- Tell a lie: Talk yourself into advancing
THE FEARLESS CONSUMER- Verdict: The engine was not defective
