Year in review: The good, the bad, the horrible
Have we bottomed out yet?
Bankers say yay; job seekers say nay. For the most part, Charlottesville escaped the massive layoffs faced in places like neighboring Waynesboro, but then, we didn't really have much of an industrial base to begin with.
National economic unease has changed us.
And locally, the October 17 disappearance of Morgan Harrington has changed how we see ourselves and where we live. In best-place-to-live Charlottesville, a cruel truth is that it's not unusual for young women to get raped. But for them to disappear off the face of the earth, that simply doesn't happen here. We like to think Katie Worsky's 1988 disappearance an anomaly, but Harrington's vanishing has burst the security bubble of this community.
Hundreds turned out to search for her, and two months later, we're left to come to grips with a gaping wound of the sort found in other, less desirable places to live. Harrington is the most tragic example of missing this year, but there were other disappearances.
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A contractor jack-hammers out a cobblestoney set of concrete pavers Wednesday, December 16, installed as part of an early 1990s Corner district overhaul.
Worth the wait? 2009 highlights in architecture
Charlottesville Mayor Dave Norris celebrates the completion of the Mall re-bricking project, while the uncompleted Landmark looms. FILE PHOTO BY DAVE MCNAIR Quite a few a...
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In a front-page story on Saturday, the Daily Progress reported that the Regal Seminole 4 had no heat. Then, the next day, on Sunday, December 13, according to a theatergoer...
Full Stories List for December 24th, 2009 issue #0851
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