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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] That car is me, ain’t it? “You need to pimp that thing up and start cruising Greenville Avenue again,” my friend Eli insisted. “We could really pick up babes in that car,” our buddy Mordecai chimed in. “Um, fellas, I’m married,” I shot back, stating what I…
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Column by Jim Bishop Greetings from Harrisonburg! I thought this would be my annual beach report, live and direct from the Outer Banks, N.C. But, as Scottish poet Robert (Sun)Burns rightly observed, “The best-laid plans of mice and men gang often go awry” (Gang aft agley). Instead, I’m hunkered down in the bedroom of our…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The presumed number-one quarterback, Peter Lalich, is busted for underage possession of alcohol. Then one of the incoming starters on the offensive line, Will Barker, is among two UVa. players picked up for stealing beer from a nightclub on The Corner. And that was just last week’s news….
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Never underestimate the Chinese. Bill Crutchfield, the CEO of the Charlottesville-based Crutchfield Corp., learned that on his short jaunt through Hangzhou, China, carrying the Olympic Torch in May. Tens of thousands of young Chinese among the 1 to 2 million people lining the streets that day were sporting…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Ben Irick has joined the Member Investment Services team at DuPont Community Credit Union as a financial consultant. Irick, who lives in Charlottesville, comes to DCCU from a large investment firm in Houston. Irick has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Texas and holds both the Series…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] An Albemarle County winery will hold a special opening on Aug. 2 and Aug. 3 to introduce itself to the Virginia wine community. Virginia Wineworks has set up shop at the former Montdomaine winery 12 miles south of Charlottesville. Partners Michael Shaps and Philip Stafford will offer complimentary tastings at…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] An urgent message from a business colleague yesterday. “Call me. Private.” I’m expecting some sort of scoop. I had no idea I would be the subject of the scoop. Turns out that somebody is calling around asking friends and former and current business associates the…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll: Would you support the adoption of some kind of universal health care system in the U.S.? As recently as a year or two ago, mention of the words universal health care in the context of the ongoing national discussion of what to do to address the growing…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Media General apparently isn’t making enough money at The Daily Progress in Charlottesville to justify spending the “several million dollars of repairs, refurbishing and rewiring” needed to continue long-term operations at its printing plant on West Rio Road. These can’t be good days at the Richmond-based Media General, the parent…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Good news for travelers who drive back and forth to Charlottesville every day. The bridge rehab on Interstate 64 over Stockton Creek at mile marker 108 has been substantially completed, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation, and both westbound lanes were reopened to traffic yesterday afternoon. But we’re not…
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