Hall, sold: Richmond magnate buys Keswick resort and club
At least one suicide and a murder: what you won't find in the releases 1912: Robert B. Crawford spends $100,000 to build his dreamhouse, Villa Crawford.1947: Local busines...
January 19th, 2012 issue #1103
News
Life behind bars: Eric Abshire defiant at sentencing
After declaring his love for his late wife and his innocence in her death, a defiant Eric Abshire, convicted in October of killing Justine Swartz Abshire, spoke aloud in co...
Observer founder Kay Peaslee has died
Less than two years after moving to Indianapolis, Kay Peaslee, the founder of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Observer, a weekly paper whose muckraking set a standard for 198...
Pam Melampy: Clerk candidate dies from aneurysm
It started as a really bad headache over the weekend. By Monday, January 16, Pam Collier Melampy was dead from an aneurysm, says her sister, Albemarle Circuit Court Clerk D...
Rape charge: County cop arrested and media blocked
On January 5, Albemarle County Police arrested one of their own, former County police officer Sean M. Horn, 42, who has been charged with an alleged Thanksgiving Day weeken...
River law: Local angler fights for river access
Several years ago, when a local angler waded into a waterway in Alleghany County, he also waded into a legal battle over property rights and public access to Virginia's riv...
Scanner error: NC State checks turn up in Charlottesville
Anson Parker made a New Year's resolution: To let North Carolina State University know that the scanner he bought on eBay contained copies of thousands of checks written to...
Winter jasmine jumps out early
Some priors: - 2011 - Feb 19 - 2010 - March 10 - 2009 - Feb 12 - 2008 - Feb 22 - 2007 - early January
Staunton resident Bill Golden (right) pauses while getting filmed for a video advertising his business which partners investors with people who find distressed properties, ...
The Albemarle Morris Men enliven the Downtown Mall on a recent afternoon.
Workers position a truss for a string of townhouses at Pavilions at Pantops, a growing community that launched with a bang– literally, as blasting caused some minor d...
The Dish
Concrete move: Market Annex work begins on Main St.
Workers ready the former site of C&R Auto, whose painted signs used to grace 513 West Main Street with promises of "specializing in automatic transmissions," for an exp...
Escafé readies: Grand reopening before month's end
Escafé's coming back, baby. As first reported in the Hook, the venerable Downtown Mall restaurant with the hip nightlife recently packed its bags from its longtime home in...
Healthy Chinese: Song Song's Zhou & Bing
Right across from the "Skybar" on 5th Street NE, you may or may not have noticed that a placed called Song Song's Zhou & Bing opened on the Downtown Mall with little fa...
Monsoon, switched: Friends season Market Street with Siam
How did two Thai art students wind up taking over Monsoon, Charlottesville's oldest Asian fusion restaurant? Well, to hear 31-year-old "Kitty" Ashi tell the story, it began...
Restaurant Week tip: Reserve early for semi-annual food fandango
From January 23 to 29, Charlottesville will once again experience the hugely popular Restaurant Week, which draws eager diners from within Charlottesville and the surroundi...
Essays
Online specs: How I reframed the discussion
“Why would you want to line the pockets of the Chinese or whoever, when you can buy your glasses from an optician right here in Charlottesville? Tell me you won’t buy y...
Real Estate - On the Block
Facetime
Simpson's folly? Nelsonian gets serious about Alaska race
After more than a generation as the unofficial ambassador of Nelson County, Russ Simpson suddenly finds himself unrecognizable. The proprietor of a popular roadside stand a...
