June 16th, 2005 issue #0424

June 16th, 2005

Burn baby burn: fire sparks dump controversy

Poisoned ground? County wakes up to illegal dump Palettes and pumps, windows and wheelchairs, rusted cars and rotting wood. Engines, ovens, tire piles, leaking drums, dishwashers, oil and propane tanks, asphalt and asbestos shingles, toilets– and, yes– even kitchen sinks. All up in flames.

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4Better Or Worse

The week in review

Latest in the Scottie Griffin annals: A lawsuit against the former Charlottesville school superintendent and her previous employer, the New Orleans public schools, is settl...

The Dish

Belmont boom: First of three cafes opens

This could be the year for downtown Belmont. With three new businesses planning to open this summer, it looks like the café-restaurant scene is finally catching up to the ...

Essays

Weighty matters: Ice cream's soft, and so am I

There once was a time that keeping weight off was effortless. For most of us, we could eat whatever we wanted because the act of finding food was enough to burn it off. As ...

Question of the Week

What do you think of the pavilion going up at the east end of the Downtown Mall?

Robert Hobart: "I don't think one way or the other. I doubt I'll go to any shows." Ralph Walke: "They just put the old one in– it hasn't even been a decade! It wa...

Real Estate - $old

$old!

What happened to On The Blocks of the Past? Published June 16, 2005 in issue 0424 of the Hook APPEARED IN THE HOOK: March 3, 2005 in issue 0409 ADDRESS: 1203 Meriwether Str...
REAL ESTATE- $old

ALBEMARLE 4/6 Church Hill Development Co. to Robert V. and Annamaria Bakalian, 1.980 acres at 2959 Catlett Road, $439,000. March Mountain Properties LLC to Thomas L...

Real Estate - Commercial Construction Permits

Commercial construction permits

CHARLOTTESVILLE 6/2 Martha Jefferson House, 400 Ackley Lane, demo office building, $20,000. Second & Market Development, 116 Second Street NE, tenant upfit, $10...

Real Estate - On the Block

On the Block Nothing mousy: Restoring a relic on Ridge

ADDRESS: 505 Ridge Street NEIGHBORHOOD: Fifeville ASKING: $550,000 YEAR BUILT: 1843-1845, addition 1912 SIZE: 3,330 fin. sq. ft. 202 unfin. LAND: 0.219 acres CURB APPEAL: 8...

Real Estate Property auctions

Property auctions

June 17, at 9am at the Charlottesville Courthouse Property: 1455 Avon Street Debtor: Jermaine R. Barrett Amount owing: $78,876 Bidder brings: $7,000 or 10 percent of the s...

Movie Reviews

Dark roots: New Batman leaves fun behind

How do you like your Batman? That's important to consider if you're in doubt about seeing Batman Begins, the new movie that's essentially a prequel to the quartet made betw...

Music Reviews

Lovin' it: Horn delivers, Hacks do too

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News

Debut: Queen of Country to open amphitheater

Loretta Lynn has had the still-under-construction Charlottesville Pavilion on her tour schedule for months. It wasn't until last week the Coran Capshaw-run pavilion made it...
Grave matter: South Lawn remains to be seen

When Roanoke resident Jan Wilkins received a phone call from The University of Virginia in 1995, the last thing he expected to hear was that archaeologists had accidentally...
Not Meriwether: The neighborhood that didn't want to go

School redistricting this year has had some of Albemarle's most affluent neighborhoods– particularly on the western side of the county– up in arms at the sugges...
Recuse yourself! Public Defender asks Peatross to go

A little over a month after Judge Paul "Mac" Peatross resumed hearing criminal cases after being cleared of wrongdoing by the Virginia Supreme Court, another hurdle has bee...
Revamped: SNL building gets the Coran touch-- and tenants

It's no secret that Dave Matthews Band manager Coran Capshaw is Charlottesville's own King Midas. His MusicToday sells tickets and merchandise for some of the world's bigge...
Seeing stars: Local psychic Renier on NBC

Crime-solving psychics seem to be the latest fad in ever-popular cop shows, and the same network that brought the series Medium is picking up real-life cases from Court TV'...
Spore-atic: Mold-house family faces 'camping'

The closer Larry Butler and Judit Szaloki come to getting into their new home, the closer they are to ending up in the street. The couple was the subject of the Hook's Marc...

The Brazen Careerist

Worst mistakes: Avoid errors of new managers

First-time managers are generally nightmares to work for. They are people who got promoted by doing a non-management job well, and they probably have little experience in m...

Sports Doctor

SPORTS WRAP

Best American/local lacrosse clinic: Many of America's future women's lacrosse stars will look to improve their games by attending prestigious lacrosse camps along the east...

Strange But True

Stab in the dark: Murderous dreams come true

DRAWING BY DEBORAH DERR McCLINTOCK Q. While the city sleeps through the long dark night, crime stalks the streets. But what if the sleepers are themselves the stalkers? Is...

Facetime

Spy guy: Snooping stoppage allowed 9/11, says Naftali

The man who runs the Miller Center's Presidential Recordings Project is jetting through Charlottesville on a book tour layover, with San Francisco, L.A., New York, Miami, a...

Hotseat

Seven-year hitch: Duffy's an anchor in a storm

NBC29 News at Sunrise anchor Beth Duffy looks fresh and alert– even sunny– as the weekday broadcast begins at 5:30am. What viewers don't know: she not a morning...

Letters

A hound by any other name

The Calendar in the May 26 Hook advertised an Elizabethan Faire with "wenches and whippets." I fear that your literary license led you astray. The pictured hounds appear to...
Great doc; great pix

When I lived in Charlottesville I always enjoyed Dr. John Hong's morning appearances on Channel 29. Now that I don't get local stations anymore (thanks, DirecTV), I'm thril...
Skunk stripe appalling

$2,300 for a white line down the middle of a path in the woods?! [June 2: "'Skunk park'? RTF users irked by stripe"] Honestly. Would somebody please just get a grip? Every ...
Trojan train indeed

Janis Jaquith's essay [April 7: "Trojan train: Keep D.C. a car commute away"] sent chills down my spine. The scary warning was that the cancer of development now vastly sur...