April 29th, 2004 issue #0317

April 29th, 2004

  • Time of the signs: How many is too many?

    PHOTOS BY JEN FARIELLO Big sprouts in townsville April showers bring May flowers, but some man-made symbols of spring are just as predictable in Central Virginia: real estate signs. And although it's natural that anyone selling a home wants to get the word out, some signs cross a legal line– particularly when they're placed blocks– sometime even miles– from the property they're promoting.

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4Better Or Worse

  • The week in review

    Biggest march: Hundreds of thousands pro-choicers, anti-Bushers flood the Mall in Washington April 25. Most high-profile American war death: Former NFLer Pat Tillman is kil...

Essays

  • Freelancers: Going after rogue killers

    What is the legitimate purpose of the nation-state? Surely its chief function is to protect the lives and property of its citizens. At least that's the best justification f...

Question of the Week

  • How did you find your home?

    Sonia Chapman: "A newspaper classified ad. It's hard to find affordable housing in Charlottesville." Alan Firth: "Through the MLS system. I bought one home in 1996 in the...

Real Estate - $old

  • REAL ESTATE- $old

    CHARLOTTESVILLE Charles W. Hurt and Shirley Fisher, Trustees, to Southern Property LLC, 20 lots in Burnet Commons, $918,000. John and Margaret Unsworth to Zoltan P. and Mar...

Real Estate - On the Block

  • Log on: Pottery barn adds possibilities

    ADDRESS: 3350 Reas Ford Lane ASKING: $549,9000 SIZE: 2,367 fin. sq. ft., 2,100 unfin. YEAR BUILT: 1977/1989 NEIGHBORHOOD: Earlysville CURB APPEAL: 8 out of a possible 10 LI...

Real Estate Property auctions

  • REAL ESTATE- Property auctions

    May 7, at 9am, at the Fluvanna County Courthouse Property: 2.0 acres on State Route 631 Debtor: Samuel E. and Shellamont L. Rose Amount owing: $70,550 Bidder brings: $5,000...

Music Reviews

  • Feel the spirit: Love saturates concert hall

    Black Voices' Spring ConcertOld Cabell Hall Saturday, April 24 I was raised in the church. Three days a week my family attended. There was Bible study, choir practice, and ...

News

  • Baby 101: Take sons to work-- everyday

    For middle school humanities teacher Katrien Vance, every day is "take your child to work" day. And now the North Branch School, where she works, has an award to prove it. ...

  • Basket wars: Cost Plus challenges Pier One

    Charlottesville already has Pier One, the go-to place for imported brass candlesticks and rattan chairs. Now the import store is about to find an old California competitor ...

  • Coran's place: Rock 'n real estate

    Since the 1840s, ionic-columned Seven Oaks has had its share of the famous visitors, from neighboring Mirador's Langhorne-Astor-Gibson girls to the turn-of-this-century's D...

  • Planked: Sabato skewers at shad fest

    Some people go to the Wakefield Ruritan Club's annual Shad Planking to enjoy the bony fish that fed the colonists. Those people are in a decided minority. Most of this year...

  • Prism Schism III: Meeting brings tears, cheers

    Tempers flared at the Prism Coffeehouse on Tuesday night, April 20, as nearly 100 current and former volunteers, board members, and concerned community members met with med...

  • Uncanned: Mickey makes its debut

    Long stalled by its failure to find a distributor, Mickey has finally debuted in the city of its creators. Author John Grisham and movie director Hugh Wilson unveiled their...

  • UVA rape case: Student accepts lesser charge

    On April 26 in Charlottesville Circuit Court, 19-year-old UVA second year Zachary Jesse– charged late last summer with rape– pled guilty to aggravated sexual ba...

The Brazen Careerist

  • The haunting: Resume lies can bite you

    Some recruiters say that as many as one in five job hunters is guilty of resumé enhancement, or lying about their qualifications. Why isn't this news plastered on the fron...

Strange But True

  • Polar protected: Why fish don't freeze

    Q. Do cold-water fishes have ice in their blood, or are they equipped with "antifreeze"? Would a couple of quarts of fish juice protect a car radiator during winter? ̵...

Facetime

Hotseat

  • Lisa Collis: Not in anyone's shadow

    It's impossible not to be charmed by a famous University of Virginia graduate who, returning to the Lawn for the first time since her graduation, candidly admits, "The only...

Letters

  • Churches not lily white

    I appreciate that the Hook honored the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education with a narrative of local civil rights activism in the 1950's and '60's ["On Brown's ...

  • Think outside the brick

    Christine Madrid French is my new hero. The postmodern Jeffersonizing of our town into a faux-Disney, pretend-historical-theme-park is not only revisionist, it's disrespect...

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