August 12th, 2004 issue #0332

August 12th, 2004

  • Sullivan's pave: Whose road is it anyway?

    Can one wealthy landowner trump public debate over land use? For some Albemarle residents, that's the question that lurks beneath every conversation about the paving of the last gravel stretch of Blenheim Road. To state and county officials worried about shrinking transportation funds, telecom magnate Thomas H. Sullivan's offer to pave the road that fronts his farm is a million-dollar gift. To some of his neighbors in this peaceful Scottsville-area hamlet, however, his free road is no free ride.

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4Better Or Worse

  • The week in review

    Biggest migration: Thirty-two students take advantage of the school choice option and leave Clark Elementary after the school fails to meet the requirements of the federal ...

Editor's Note

  • Attention, sports fans...

    Dear Sports Fans, The Hook has decided to try its hand at that time-honored American pastime, Monday morning quarterbacking. In this case, however, due to our publication d...

The Dish

  • W by SW: New venues heat up Crozet

    Things are buzzing west of town. Let's start our tour in the little hamlet of Ivy, home to Duner's and to the slowly transforming general store, Toddsbury of Ivy.

Essays

  • JibJab: This song is Arlo's manifesto

    It seems like every blog and e-mail list has linked to This Land!, that corny but funny cartoon where John Kerry and George W. Bush trade insults to the tune of Woody Guthr...

Question of the Week

  • Do you think country roads should be paved?

    Steven Burden: "No. As a rite of passage of living in the country, you should have to have a four-wheel-drive vehicle. No city folks allowed." Alethea Miller: "I don't t...

Real Estate - On the Block

  • Boating buddy: Home shares wall and water

    ADDRESS: 235 Buttercup Lane ASKING: $305,900 SIZE: 3100 fin. sq. ft.; 400 unfin. YEAR BUILT: 1997 NEIGHBORHOOD: Lake Reynovia CURB APPEAL: 7 of 10 LISTED BY: Stuart Rifkin ...

Real Estate - Update

  • UPDATE

    APPEARED IN THE HOOK: April 8, 2004 in Issue 0314 ADDRESS: 2610 Jefferson Park Avenue ASKING PRICE: $329,900 SELLING PRICE: $293,330 DAYS TO CONTRACT: 197 SELLER'S AGENT: P...

Real Estate Property auctions

  • Property auctions

    August 12, at 9am, at the Orange County Courthouse Property: 300 N. Main St., Gordonsville Debtor: Steven E. Lynch Amount owing: $145,050 Bidder brings: $14,500 or 10 perc...

Music Reviews

  • Can't stop the pop: Marky likes it

    Zag at Miller's Friday, August 6 "Zag" is: a) A town in Kentucky b) A meteorite c) A human protein d) A geography journal in Germany e) A good pop/rock group f) All of the...

  • Step closer: Local idols look to win

    Idol Semi-finals Starr Hill Music HallSunday, July 31 As an artist, I can't think of anything more difficult than covering a song written and popularized by someone else. ...

News

  • Bruce Rasmussen: Lawyer won big awards, high regard

    When a jury awarded $20 million in 1997 to a Keswick man seriously injured by a 16-ton hunk of concrete falling off a truck and onto his vehicle, it was the largest persona...

  • Horder & Goliath: Local shop fights Staples

    Nearly a decade ago, several local booksellers folded when Barnes & Noble appeared on the horizon. So when behemoth office supplier Staples opened a second Charlottesvi...

  • Jilted paper: Left at altar, Observer folds

    Observer publisher Kimberly Robbins had been looking for a buyer and thought she'd found one. She'd been approached by a local publisher over a year ago and had been in se...

  • Lockdown: ER plays it safe

    Maybe it was the nearly full moon. After two separate shootings June 29, the UVA Medical Center Emergency Room was locked down twice in one day– something that appare...

  • New digs: Kappa Sigma moves on

    Less than a year after Kappa Sigma lost its Ivy Road national headquarters in a bitter legal dispute, the fraternity is preparing to break ground on new headquarters near M...

  • RU ready? Abortion options widen with Jones

    Though abortions have been offered at Charlottesville clinics since the late 1970s, local women with unwanted pregnancies now have access to another choice: RU-486, commonl...

The Brazen Careerist

  • New mantra: Bad boss is your fault

    Want to deal with a bad boss? First, stop complaining. Unless your boss breaks the law, you don't have a bad boss; you have a boss you are managing poorly. Pick on your bos...

Strange But True

  • Oil and water: Ben discovers the secret

    DRAWING BY DEBORAH DERR McCLINTOCK  Q. What trick did U.S. statesman and kite-flying scientist Ben Franklin use to still turbulent streams with a wave of his walking ...

Facetime

  • Horsey set... To win some in Athens?

    Charlottesville has an Olympian. His name is Winsome Adante, and he's 11 years old. He can jump four feet off the ground and can hit speeds of over 22 miles per hour, and t...

  • No whimpers: Rubin orchestrates Phish exit

    The revolution will not be televised. It will, however, be broadcast live over XM satellite radio to over 2.1 million subscribers. August 15 will mark the end of an era, an...

Letters

  • $old

    ALBEMARLE 6/3  Ronald D. and Frances Carter to Robert R. and Heidi E. Johnson, 3201 Darby Road, Glenmore, Keswick, $870,000. Charles P. Ancona to Eileen A. Gallagher...

  • A time to be naked

    I couldn't help but notice the Orwellian juxtaposition of two items in the 4 Better or Worse section July 22 ["Worst decision for nude teens" and "Best reason to wear clean...

  • Help available for immigrants

    Thank you for bringing attention to a major hazard faced by immigrants and visitors to this country. In your July 22 story, "Alien: The unbearable paperwork of being," Arun...

  • Parents are to blame

    Let me see if I have this right: We have a piece of playground equipment, designed for children, that several parents determine is not age-appropriate for their child to us...

  • Thank the trail-builders

    The author's July 1 letter– headlined "Presley's greedy," about the woman who cried foul over unpermissioned use of her property, touched off a couple of feisty repli...

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