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High winds ripped the roof off the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke July 19, mainly in the aviation wing, according to the Roanoke Times. Fortunately, the airplanes weren’t damaged, but the roof had just been replaced six month ago. Damage is estimated at $250,000, and the storm spewed asbestos all over the place from the remains of the old roof.
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Would-be participants in the competition that has attacted not just one but two Central Virginia women pannicked March 14 after thousands clamored for a role on a Manhattan street.
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A pair of heavy machines, including a ballast tamper, works near Old Ivy Road March 12, thanks to an $8.59 million, six-year state grant to the Buckingham Branch Railroad, which leases the CSX tracks through Charlottesville, to replace about 116,000 ties, as then state rail boss Kevin Page told a 2007 assemblage of rail promoters at the Boar’s Head Inn. Page noted that such improvements will enable the Chicago-to-New York Cardinal passenger train to resume speeds of 60mph (instead of the 40mph limit imposed after a year 2000 audit found gobs of rotten ties west of Charlottesville).
If you’re at all curious what U2’s Charlottesville gig will be like, the band has launched a high-tech virtual preview of their “360 Degree Tour.” As the name suggests, Ireland’s biggest rockers will be performing in-the-round on a set designed by architect Mark Fisher, who was also the man behind the massive “Bigger Bang” stage Charlottesville saw at the Rolling Stones’ 2005 Scott Stadium gig.
One of Virginia’s most colorful retailers, Plan 9 Music, is closing its store in Roanoke. The move follows the closing of oneмебели стара загора of its two Charlottesville stores as well its Lynchburg store, and it plans to close its store in Harrisonburg, the Roanoke Times reports.
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Isn’t this the place kinda next door to the O. Winston Link Museum in the Star City?