4Better Or Worse


The week in review Published on Dec 1st, 2011 0 comments Biggest countdown: Will they stay or will they go? Charlottesville withdraws the welcome mat (permit) for Occupy Charlottesville in Lee Park with an 11pm November 29 deadline, after the Hook has gone...
The week in review Published on Nov 23rd, 2011 3 comments Latest George Huguely ruling: A judge says November 18 that defense attorneys may see slain student Yeardley Love's medical records. Biggest issue for UVA students I: The magnolias slated to be cut...
The week in review Published on Nov 16th, 2011 2 comments Worst week for traffic fatalities: Three people die within 14 hours on Albemarle County roads, none of whom were wearing seatbelts, according to police. Amber Leigh Johnson, 20, and Michael Wayne...
The week in review Published on Nov 9th, 2011 0 comments Most double-shotted endorsement: The Daily Progress picks two pro-dam candidates for the three open seats on City Council– incumbent Satyendra Huja and Kathy Galvin– and opines that of...
The week in review Published on Nov 2nd, 2011 0 comments Most secret negotiations: Albemarle officials are meeting behind closed doors to push for a 42-foot Ragged Mountain dam rather than the city-approved 30-foot earthen dam, and dangling an offer to pay...
The week in review Published on Oct 27th, 2011 0 comments Most accommodating: City officials agree to extend the permit for Occupy Charlottesville in Lee Park until October 27, and waive the $25 fee. Previously, camping had not been allowed in the city park...
The week in review Published on Oct 20th, 2011 1 comments Best sign Louisa may be cursed: A tornado touches down southeast Gordonsville around 3:30pm October 13, ripping the roof off historic Sylvania, a house on the James Madison Highway that dates from...
The week in review Published on Oct 13th, 2011 1 comments Worst crash aftermath: Doris Campbell, 33, injured October 3 in a head-on collision on Old Lynchburg Road, dies October 10 and becomes the 14th fatality in Albemarle this year. Brandon Wilson, 28, of...
The week in review Published on Oct 6th, 2011 0 comments Gloomiest Albemarle budget news: The county projects a $1 million shortfall for this fiscal year and the next because of a fall in real estate assessments anticipated through 2013, the Daily Progress...
The week in review Published on Sep 29th, 2011 0 comments Most disturbing statistics: One in five Charlottesville families can't pay their bils and one in three can't afford day care and transportation costs to keep a job, according to a study based on U.S...
The week in review Published on Sep 22nd, 2011 3 comments Most clueless board: The Commonwealth Transportation Board. In late June, VDOT's own engineers peg the cost of building the Western Bypass as $436 million, nearly double the previous estimate. CTB...
The week in review Published on Sep 15th, 2011 1 comments Most epochal: The 10th anniversary of September 11. Most torrential: A five o'clock thunderstorm September 12 brings hail, a tree on top of a car on JPA, and a stalled car on flooded Old Ivy Road....
The week in review Published on Sep 8th, 2011 0 comments Latest tropical storm: Lee heads up from Louisiana, dumping rain on Cental Virginia and bringing flood warnings. A truck stalls out in high water on Avon Street Extended September 6 when a drain...
The week in review Published on Sep 1st, 2011 0 comments Most disaster prone: The 5.8 magnitude Cuckoo quake August 23, followed four days later by Hurricane Irene, causes the governor to raise the inevitable question: When does the swarm of locusts arrive...
The week in review Published on Aug 25th, 2011 0 comments Biggest primary: Dems elect City Council candidates Satyendra Huja, Kathy Galvin, and Dede Smith August 20 to run for three open Council seats. Llezelle Dugger gets the nomination for clerk of court...
The week in review Published on Aug 18th, 2011 2 comments Harshest weather: A severe storm pounds Charlottesville August 14 and leaves 7,000 without power in the city and more than 11,000 in the dark in the county. Park and Wertland Streets are closed the...
The week in review Published on Aug 11th, 2011 0 comments Worst slaying: Clark Elementary third-grade teacher Dawn Reddick is gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Newark July 29, shielding a seven-year-old boy she didn't know from flying bullets, the...
The week in review Published on Jul 28th, 2011 0 comments Hottest: Temperatures reach 102 degrees July 22, so the city and county open cooling centers . Latest summertime juvenile rampage: A Charlottesville resident is bashed in the head with a garbage...
The week in review Published on Jul 21st, 2011 0 comments Biggest meetings: An Albemarle Board of Supervisors hearing July 13 on the proposed Western 29 Bypass brings out the citizenry, with 108 signed up to speak. A Metropolitan Planning Organization...
The week in review Published on Jul 14th, 2011 0 comments Longest arson sentence: The two teens who torched Ruckersville Baptist Church last summer are sentenced July 11. Sean Douglas Heiderscheidt, 19, will serve seven years, and Stephen Fox, 18, received...
The week in review Published on Jul 7th, 2011 1 comments Worst spate of Southwood trailer park news: Two men are sentenced June 27 for distributing meth in the mobile community. Darlin Antonio Rodriguez-Recinos and Israel Espinoza-Chavez receive six and a...
The week in review Published on Jun 30th, 2011 2 comments Best example of too little, too late: Five weeks after an unannounced, late-night June 8 vote that resurrects the controversial U.S. 29 Western Bypass, the Albemarle Board of Supervisors will hold a...
The week in review Published on Jun 23rd, 2011 0 comments Latest in the Western 29 Bypass resurrection: City Council votes 4-0 June 20 to oppose the controversial roadway. After a more than 10-year hiatus, the bypass revived June 8 at the end of a late-...
The week in review Published on Jun 16th, 2011 5 comments 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...
The week in review Published on Jun 8th, 2011 5 comments Greatest disparity in sentencing in Lousia: Remone J. Houchens robs, brutally beats and blinds an 87-year-old woman and is sentenced June 1 to 30 years. That same day, Canadian Alan Sauve, 48, is...
4BETTER or worse: The week in review Published on Jun 2nd, 2011 0 comments Worst week for baby deaths: The family of year-old Camora Latay Wicks raises money May 30 to pay for a $4,000 funeral to bury the baby, whose cause of death is undisclosed. Ramon Turley, 18, is...
The week in review Published on May 26th, 2011 0 comments Worst spate of females allegedly deliberately running down people: A Louisa teen is in custody after allegedly driving her car into a crowd outside a party just after midnight May 22. According to...
The week in review Published on May 19th, 2011 0 comments Latest missing young woman: Katalina Mikitarian, 21, disappears from a bus headed to Charlottesville, and calls her mother a week later, but won't say where she is. Mikitarian is learning disabled...
The week in review Published on May 12th, 2011 3 comments Most wanted: Taybronne A. White is arrested May 8 in connection with a triple homicide after the bodies of Lisa Hwang, 26, Brian Lee Daniels, 26, and Dustin Tyler Knighton, 25, were discovered...
The week in review Published on May 5th, 2011 0 comments Deadliest month for tornadoes: Violent storms across Virginia April 27-28 leave four dead in Washington County in southwest Virginia, and one dead in Southside's Halifax County, the AP reports. Two...