River bluff: How to save a park-- sort of

Jul 8

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The week in review
Best balance for Yankee John Kerry's presidential ticket: He adds Southerner John Edwards to the VP slot July 6. Best news for Guantanamo Bay prisoners: The U.S. Supreme Co...

Editor's Note

Two cartoonists win
The Hook is pleased to note that two of the national cartoons we publish won awards in the annual contest of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. "Slow Wave" by Jes...

The Dish

Birds of a feather: Flock to Pantops
What's all the squawking about up on the hill east of town? It must be the Lazy Parrot Grill, which took over the Sweetbones space in the Pantops Shopping Center on May 5. ...

Essays

Ron ran: Lebanon sullied Reagan and us
Even after all these years, I'm not sure whether Ronald Reagan knew where Lebanon was on a map, though the diminutive county proved to be the most enduring bane of his two ...

Question of the Week

What's your dream neighborhood in Charlottesville?
Mac Schrader: "I don't have one, and it's because I don't know Charlottesville enough. I live in Albemarle County." Veronica Holland: "Some place with decen...

Real Estate - $old

$old
ALBEMARLE 5/18 Stuart Birckhead to Andante LLC, parcel on State Route 240, 5793 The Square, Crozet, $475,000. Michael J. and Katheryn E. Fulton to Brent and Anita F...

Real Estate - On the Block

Sandwiched retreat: Split personality on Winston
ADDRESS: 1821 Winston Road ASKING: $474,000 SIZE: 2,769 fin. sq. ft. / 119 unfin. YEAR BUILT: 1968 NEIGHBORHOOD: Rugby CURB APPEAL: 5 out of a possible 10 LISTED BY: Anthon...

Real Estate - Update

UPDATE
APPEARED IN THE HOOK: May 6, 2004 in Issue 0318 ADDRESS: 1416 Hampton Street ASKING PRICE: $174,900 SELLING PRICE: $174,900 DAYS TO CONTRACT: 57 SELLER'S and BUYER'S AGENT:...

Real Estate Property auctions

Property auctions
July 13, at 10am, at the Albemarle County Courthouse Property: 2661 Kendalwood Lane, Forest Lakes South Debtor: Robert A. and Janice E. Dumitru Amount owing: Unknown Bidde...

Movie Reviews

Soft history: Square knights of the Round Table
Last year about this time, Jerry Bruckheimer opened Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and exceeded everyone's expectations, critically and financially....

Music Reviews

River grass: Rhythms rock the James
The Dixie Power Trio and the Rogan Brothers at Dorrier Park, ScottsvilleJuly 3 For the past five years, Scottsville (population: 555), has thrown free concerts in Dorrier ...
Transfixed: Old stand-bys set standard
Thompson/D'earthat Miller's Thursday, July 1 Driving around Charlottesville, it's hard to miss how quickly the city is growing: apartments on Main Street, developments out...

News

'Steep, deep, sticky': One slide, several injured kids
When Jennifer Mnookin and her husband Joshua Dienstag took their two young children to Greenleaf Park on Sunday, June 27, they were hoping for a relaxing diversion. They'd ...
Ancient Chinese secret: Mountain Lumber hauls it in
At Mountain Lumber, using old wood is nothing new. For 30 years, the Ruckersville-based company has scoured the nation for condemned old buildings, swooping in to "reclaim"...
Dead rights: Funeral signs not backed by law
Trying to find a parking space downtown is not easy even on the best of days. But funeral-goers get a special perk that operates on the edges of the law when funeral operat...
Market makeover: Belmont store has new lease on life
For more than 100 years, Belmonters have shopped for groceries and goods at the Belmont Market on Monticello Loop near Mas. But with the arrival of upscale convenience stor...
Seniority out: First-termer David Brown is mayor
In recent City Council history, the mayorship has rotated according to seniority. Following that tradition, Kevin Lynch should be the new mayor. But the cycle was broken Ju...

The Brazen Careerist

Family business: Go elsewhere, take risks
For too many people, staying in the family business is the easy way to worm out of difficulties of adult life: finding a place where you fit in, discovering what you love t...

Strange But True

Return to sender: Your boomerang will come back
DRAWING BY DEBORAH DERR McCLINTOCK Q. What makes a properly thrown boomerang come back? –C. Drake

Facetime

Ramblers man: Jamie Dyer goes way back
Talking to Jamie Dyer is an experience rather akin to being inside a Jose Luis Borges story: You recognize some of the names and places as real, but some of the conversatio...

Hotseat

George Bailey: It's a wonderful life
Former Albemarle Sheriff George Bailey has more in common with the Jimmy Stewart holiday classic movie than the lead character's name. Sheriff Bailey, too, grew up in an ar...

Letters

Let's borrow Johnsen's stuff
After reading Scott Johnsen's letter regarding Shirley Presley's selfish hoarding of her private property {July 1: "Presley's greedy"], I just have a few questions. Mr. Joh...

Full Stories List for July 8th, 2004 issue #0327

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