Wasted gateway: How the City (mis)treats the Belmont Bridge
Few of today's college students were alive in 1986. That was the year the space shuttle Challenger exploded, and Ronald Reagan was president. That was also the last time the Belmont Bridge was painted.
Such a 26-year omission bolsters the view that Charlottesville has neglected one of its most prominent and valuable pieces of infrastructure, a vital gateway to downtown that city officials now want to destroy and replace for an amount estimated to top $14 million.
April 19th, 2012 issue #1116
News
A time to sentence: Huguely fate to be finalized August 30
During a brief but at times testy 25-minute hearing in Charlottesville Circuit Court, convicted murderer George W. Huguely V, received a sentencing date of 1pm on August 30...
Baffling: nTelos Pavilion gets sound upgrade
Crews take down the old acoustic panels at the nTelos Wireless Pavilion in anticipation of a new set of panels to baffle sound away from adjacent neighborhoods and focus it...
Belmont rocked: Neighborhood drug ring smashes stereotypes
With its trendy restaurants, remodeled houses, and close proximity to downtown, Belmont has enjoyed at least a decade as the hip district for Charlottesville's young profes...
Drowning in debt? Water litigator warns of future shocks
Citizens who have seen their water bills triple over the past decade are facing another wave of price hikes and a suddenly-doubled debt load that could cause financial trou...
Gone global: Hunter and his World Peace game soar
If there were a competition for the most modest man in Charlottesville, teacher and World Peace Game creator John Hunter and local filmmaker Chris Farina would be neck-and-...
Mud fun: 2,400 humans, one bull turn out for Mud Warrior
Participants came prepared to leap over flames, scale walls, and wade through mud, but several runners in the first-ever Mud Warrior mud race faced an unexpected obstacle: ...
Muzzle time: VA prisons receive life sentence in censorship
Related stories: • Gag me: Does censuring the censors really work? • Protester removal: Boar's Head denies ordering trespassing arrest
Overcharged? Capitol protesters weigh community service deal
A Richmond prosecutor has dropped the unlawful assembly charge against 30 protesters arrested last month on the steps of the state Capitol and offered a community service d...
A team called "Spellbound" from the Daily Progress won Wordplay, a benefit cultural literacy game at the Paramount Theater Wednesday night. The April 11 event was organized...
Three years ago, the Jefferson Area Tea Party tax day rally filled what is now the nTelos Wireless Pavilion. On April 16, a smaller band of citizens assembled at the Free S...
Trunk show: Market Street resident protests spruce felling
There's something about Market Street, something that seems to prompt otherwise law-abiding citizens to embark upon civil disobedience despite the prospect of getting haule...
The downtown block party to kick off a month's worth of events for the inaugural Tom Tom Founders Festival took place as planned April 13 with a blocked-off Second Street N...
The Dish
'Mother' calling: Celebrity chef Alice Waters to visit Monticello
Okay, hard-core foodies, fasten your seat belts. Monticello just announced that Alice Waters, widely hailed as the "mother of American cooking" and the American pioneer in ...
Growing trend: Zynodoa puts the farm on the table
There's a growing trend, literally, among chefs and restaurant owners to source food from their own gardens and small farms, but few seem to be embracing that idea quite li...
Essays
Silly panic: The fuss over a 'minority white' nation
More by Ron Bailey • Gas, not water: A better fracking way to tap shale • Germ theory: What if disease causes autocracy? • How many? Numbers suggest a low terror dea...
Real Estate - On the Block
Labor of love: Covesville Victorian renovated by neighbor
Facetime
American garden: Peter Hatch and the restoration of Jefferson's landscape
Peter Hatch is all over the place this month. He's in Washington to help First Lady Michelle Obama plant the White House vegetable garden, he's in San Francisco for a Garde...
