The week in review

Longest mile: The Meadowcreek Parkway has obtained all its permits and VDOT is good to begin construction after City Council declines to block road building last week, according to Charlottesville Tomorrow. A group known as the Coalition to Preserve McIntire Park filed a lawsuit in February to stop the parkway and expects a ruling by the end of the year.

Lamest task force: The group charged six months ago with recommending new future locations for the Charlottesville City Market offers this suggestion to City Council: Keep the market where it is for another three years while they study further. Graham Moomaw has the story in the Daily Progress.

Least sustainable: Albemarle's membership in the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives is voted out June 8 by supes Ken Boyd, Lindsay Dorrier, Duane Snow, and Rodney Thomas, WINA reports. The decision follows a sparsely attended Tea Party briefing June 1 that warned climate change was an "elaborate fraud" and membership in such organizations trampled on local autonomy.

Worst single-vehicle crash: Fourteen-year-old Kirsten D. Ellis of Nellysford is killed June 7 when the 1992 Toyota Camry in which she's a passenger leaves westbound Route 6, hits a sign, a tree, and overturns. She and the 16-year-old driver were wearing seatbelts, and authorities say neither speed nor alcohol were factors.

Directest connection: CHO and American Airlines launch a pair of daily roundtrip, nonstop flights to Chicago on Thursday, June 9.

Worst flooding: Berkmar Drive near U.S. 29 is closed after a stormwater pipe under the road washes out from heavy rains over the weekend, the Newsplex reports.

Biggest vacuum: With former county growth area Biscuit Run becoming a state park, developer Wendell Wood proposes moving 600-acre, south-of-town Somerset Farm into the growth area to fill an alleged housing void, according to the Newsplex.

Biggest drug ring: Eighteen middle schoolers in Fluvanna are rounded up for possession of prescription drugs, and three face distribution charges.

Biggest broadside: UVA prof Farzaneh Milani takes aim at "gender apartheid" in the Middle East in a New York Times editorial and denounces the segregation of women. On June 17, women in Saudi Arabia will protest the ban that keeps them from driving.

Costliest success: AccessUVA, the university's financial aid program to increase socio-economic diversity, has been so successful that its annual cost of $25 million is more than double what was anticipated, prompting the Board of Visitors to take a closer look at the program. Ted Strong has the story in the Daily Progress.

Ickiest: Perry Henderson Baugher, 82, is arrested at Gypsy Hill Park Pool June 10 in Staunton after he allegedly exposes himself and masturbates while looking at pre-teen girls, the News Virginian reports. He's charged with two felonies and one misdemeanor, and police seize his bottle of body lotion.  

Latest buzz on Virgil Goode: The former 5th District congressman is the top choice to represent the Constitution Party in a bid for the U.S. Presidency in 2012, and the party passed a resolution urging him to run, according to the Roanoke Times.

Latest terror in the woods for hikers– and deer: The Virginia Board of Game and Inland Fisheries endorses the concept Sunday hunting. (The General Assembly would have to approve the controversial step.)

Best baseball team: The Cavaliers come from behind in the ninth inning June 13 to take down UC-Irvine 3-2, a victory that sends them to the College World Series.

Best ACC steeplechaser: UVA track star Stephanie Garcia (and the Hook's special sections editor) breaks the ACC women's 3,000-meter record with 9:48.29, coming in second in the NCAA finals June 11 in Des Moines.

Hottest car: A black 2001 Ford Expedition disappears from the parking lot of the Virginia State Patrol area headquarters in Appomattox. The spare vehicle, license number XPX-2447, is equipped with blue lights.