TheRutabaga: Second Street becomes waste transfer station

The Landmark Materials Transfer Facility, which opened this summer, has been a remarkable success.

Neighborhood development chief Jim Tolbert announced today that the section of Second Street SE beside the abandoned Landmark Hotel has become an RSWA-sponsored waste transfer station. The site, which is being called the Landmark Materials Transfer Facility, has actually been accepting construction and demolition debris, as well as careless source unseparated recyclables such as coffee cups and cigarette butts, since the Downtown Mall re-bricking project was completed earlier this year. Tolbert says the program has been a success so far.

“We’ve been full to capacity with trash and junk since June,” says Tolbert. “Folks have really been happy to have a place so close to the Downtown Mall to dump crap.”

Rivanna Solid Waste Authority director Tom Frederick is pleased with the program as well. Once every six months, he says, Allied Waste will come to the transfer site and transfer the trash to its transfer site at Zion Crossroads, which will then be transferred to the RSWA’s Ivy transfer site, picked through by hand, then transferred by Waste Management back out More… (0)

Crozet paper opens window on farming

Ever wonder what a king’s grant looks like or how it launched the career of a now 83-year-old farmer? The Crozet Gazette has farm tales from Dan Maupin (who played a cameo in a 2003 Hook story about the collapse of apple farming). (0)

Food Hub gets some press

Yesterday, the Washington Post ran a story on our own Local Food Hub (which didn’t get much help from BoS earlier this year), a place for area small farmers to bring their produce for distribution. According to the story, Food Hub director Kate Collier says the enterprise could turn a $1.5 million annual profit in about seven years. That’s a lot of zucchini! (3)

Killed cyclist was doctor, surprise-minded father

The bicyclist struck and killed Tuesday was a 49-year-old Virginia Beach man riding from Wintergreen Resort to surprise his son, a freshman at James Madison University, the Harrisonburg newspaper reports. A web search indicates that the victim was a renowned anesthesiologist. (2)

Another reason to visit cvillemovies.com

American newspapers are now losing movietime advertising, according to the AP. Indeed, in Charlottesville, the theater chains may still run a tiny ad in the Progress, but often it’ll merely point readers to a chain’s website. We recommend (and own) this one: cvillemovies.com. (1)