
Commonwealth Transportation Board awards Route 29 Solutions contract
The Commonwealth Transportation Board has awarded Lane/Corman Joint Venture the $116.7 million design-build contract to improve the Route 29 corridor in Albemarle County.

The Commonwealth Transportation Board has awarded Lane/Corman Joint Venture the $116.7 million design-build contract to improve the Route 29 corridor in Albemarle County.

#2 UVA baseball will move its upcoming weekend baseball series with Marist from UVa’s Davenport Field to Charleston, S.C., because of recent and projected inclement weather in Charlottesville. Virginia will play four games at three sites in the Charleston area over the course of the weekend.

U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) announced that Virginia housing authorities have received more than $30.4 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Capital Fund Program.

This week, the House continued to pass solutions that will create jobs and grow our economy throughout Virginia’s Fifth District and across the country.

From 4 p.m. Monday through 12 p.m. Tuesday, Virginia State Police troopers and dispatchers statewide fielded 3,363 calls for service statewide.

You know going in against second-ranked UVA that it’s going to be a dogfight. Possession by possession. You’re not going to get easy baskets in transition. You’re not going to get a lot of offensive rebounds. You can try to get into the lane, get open looks off screen action, but you have to be perfect with every pass, and make the open shots that you get.

The official attendance per the UVA sports media office was 13,593. Can’t verify that independently, because I was among the masses who had to miss the game because of the heavy snow (and a mountain pass separating my home office from the John Paul Jones Arena), but watching the game on TV (as excruciating as that was), it did seem that there was a decent crowd in the house.

UVA basketball coach Tony Bennett talks with reporters after the second-ranked Cavaliers defeated Pitt, 61-49, in ACC action on Monday.

Second-ranked UVA got 18 points from Malcolm Brogdon in a 61-49 win over Pittsburgh in snowy Charlottesville Monday night. Jamel Artis scored 20 points in a losing effort for the Panthers. The win pushed the Cavaliers’ record to 24-1 overall and 12-1 in the ACC.

Pitt closed a 10-point halftime deficit to three, but an 8-0 run broke the game open and pushed second-ranked UVA to a 61-49 win in ACC action in Charlottesville, Va., on Monday.
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