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I could imagine L.D. Cox as the gregarious 19-year-old who helped deliver the first atomic bomb across the Pacific. “Don’t shoot!” he said in mock surrender as he made his way across the drill field at Fishburne Military School on a sunny late-March afternoon, passing a cannon that was going to be fired a little…
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I’m reading an article in Time magazine a few weeks back, and there’s a report on how a few new local community banks seem to be doing well in spite of what would seem to be the conventional wisdom on banks and business across the board.
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Will Richey began to notice a difference in the Charlottesville Farmers Market in the late ’90s. Besides the usual crowd seeking coffee and muffins or a week’s worth of groceries, he started running into Charlottesville’s best chefs.
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Everybody knows Sophie. That, and it’s not as long a walk from the 500 block of Chestnut to Berkeley Glenn as I’d thought it might be.
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AFP editor Chris Graham has been on City Hall to do something about the maddening stoplight at the intersection of Main and Wayne in Downtown Waynesboro. Good news – they’ve finally done something! Graham covers the story with a video interview of assistant city manager Jim Shaw and a written report including perspectives from several…
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An Augusta County homeowner has been fined a record $145,000 by the State Water Control Board for damage incurred to five acres of protected wetlands stemming from activities undertaken during the construction of a $2.4 million mansion on Quarles Pond in Stuarts Draft.
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The average price for gallon of regular unleaded in Virginia is at $1.95 this morning, unchanged from a week ago. Crude oil prices ended last week slightly above $50 to close at $53.20 Friday. Corporate earnings reports, a strengthening dollar, growing oil and gasoline inventories and Chrysler heading to bankruptcy all factored into setting the…
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Grassroots training postponed A grassroots training program for Valley Democrats that had been scheduled for Saturday, May 9, in Harrisonburg has been postponed. The program will be rescheduled for a future date, Democratic Party of Virginia political director Don Marks said today.
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– Local News: Left eastbound I-64 lane on Afton Mountain to close for cleanup, posted Monday, 2:45 p.m. – Chris Graham on Facebook: Sports and religion – Local News: I-64 clear after early-morning accident on Afton Mountain, posted Monday, 9:15 a.m. – Event: MHA-A golf tournament on tap, posted Monday, 9:15 a.m. – Local News:…
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Is that reputation repair work that my friends at the News Virginian are doing for Vice Mayor Frank Lucente and City Councilman Bruce Allen on their op-ed page? “Officials like (Lucente) and Allen, who are willing to plunge into the books looking for savings, are rare to the point of vanishing. Government needs more leaders…
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