March 24th, 2011 issue #1012
March 24th, 2011
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Local or campus cops? 'Kathryn's Law' bounced from committee (sidebar to cover)
A bill that would require campus police to hand over control of certain violent crimes to local police departments won't pass this year, but the woman who inspired it remains hopeful. -
Long gone: How UVA lost Pat Collins
Barbara Shannon was so nervous about flying overseas that she called her son in Charlottesville, where the 27-year-old had recently moved from California. "Pat's last words to me were, ‘Don't worry, Mom, everything's going to be all right. Nothing's going to happen to you.’” And indeed, 25 years later, his mother is still alive— but the same probably can’t be said for Patrick Collins.
4Better Or Worse
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The week in review
Latest in last spring's Blue Ridge Parkway shootings: Ralph Leon Jackson, 57, is expected to plead guilty March 23 in U.S. District Court in Harrisonburg to fatally firing ...
The Dish
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Cuccinelli whips up a fenzy
A food frenzy, that is. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli will be the special guest speaker at the 5th Annual Statewide Legal Food Frenzy kickoff luncheon on Friday, March 25... -
Now & Zen's Toshi Sato watches, waits for news
One of the more widely broadcast videos of the tsunami damage in Japan is of Kesennuma, a small city in northern coastal Japan that was close to the epicenter of the massiv... -
Radio Bistro at C & O
As you may already know, the C&O Restaurant launched its Monday late-night Radio Bistro on March 14. What's Radio Bistro? "It's an idea that was presented to me by Adam...
Essays
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EPA and NRC: Abolish both to really protect public safety
The New York Times recently revealed that as long ago as 1972 the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (precursor to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission) knew of fatal design defect...
Real Estate - $old
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Property transactions
ALBEMARLE 7/20Wilkshire Corp. to Millard F. Rose, parcel in Foxchase, $1,095,300.Arthur W. Clinger Jr. to Russell B. White, 1529 Kinross Lane, Glenmore, Keswick, $680,000.E...
Real Estate - Commercial Construction Permits
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Commercial Construction Permits
Charlottesville
Real Estate - On the Block
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Channeling Bette: Live like a leading lady in Staunton
Address: 1320 N. Augusta StreetNeighborhood: Gibbs Hill, StauntonAsking: $675,000Assessment: $435,000Year Built: 1915Size: 4,553 fin. sq. ft. /1,390 unfin....
Real Estate - Update
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Still available
APPEARED IN THE HOOK: November 18, 2010 in issue 0946 ADDRESS: 49 East Point Road, Lake Monticello, Fluvanna CountyASKING PRICE: $189,000 (was $199,000)ASSESSMEN...
Real Estate Property auctions
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Property auctions
March 25 at noon at the Albemarle County Courthouse Property: 2903 Brookmere RoadDebtor: William L. Cruse and Virginia D. RawleyAmount owing: $257,000Bidder brings: $31,00...
Art Features
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Reading into things: Chroma artists have a way with words
“Show, don’t tell.” Every author knows this dictate by heart (whether choosing to comply or not). The visual artists showing work in Chroma Projects’ current exhibi...
DR. HooK
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Radiation sickness: Horrible symptoms, horrible death
Meryl Streep starred in Silkwood in 1983, a movie about Karen Silkwood, who was purposely contaminated with radiation in a plutonium processing plant. This was not a Homer ...
Movie Reviews
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Brain strain: 'Limitless' falls short of brilliance
I know how Eddie Morra feels. Like him, I know almost everything, but have forgotten most of it. We are told time and again that we utilize only a small portion of our brai...
News
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'Unpardonable': Faulty IT system vexes college-bound County seniors
Now is a crucial time for parents and their college-bound high school seniors, but problems with a new high-tech student information system Albemarle unveiled last year hav... -
Addendum to tragedy: How far is Charlottesville from North Anna?
On Wednesday, March 16, U.S. officials warned American citizens living in Japan to evacuate to points beyond a 50-mile radius of Japan's damaged and radiation-leaking Fuk... -
Funding fight: Brown, Shadyac spar over Haven
News that the Haven homeless day shelter is seeking $45,000 in city funds to help cover next year's operating expenses has sparked dueling emails between outspoken downtown... -
Glenmoregate: Embezzling Comer gets another 3 years
Convicted embezzler Michael Comer stood before a judge today in federal court for the final sentencing in a string of charges that came to light when the Glenmore homeowner... -
Incumbent protection? House plan would add Fauquier to 5th
Every 10 years, Virginia redraws its congressional districts following the fresh census results. Cooler heads inevitably call for nonpartisan redistricting, and accusations... -
Meadowcreek Interceptor creating potential hazard
The Meadowcreek Interceptor, an underground project to funnel feces across the city, may have created a hazardous situation in one neighborhood. NBC29 has the story of an o... -
Ragged cost: Wildfire tally nears quarter-million mark
As the criminal trial nears, tallies of suppression costs and property losses have begun in the so-called Ragged Mountain Fire, and the price-tag appears to have neared the... -
Signs of spring? New execs offer slight optimism in budgets
For the past couple of years, Charlottesville and Albemarle have faced grim downturns in revenue compared to the high-flying days of the real estate boom and ensuing high t... -
The mystery: Nancy Drew convention comes here
What would Nancy Drew do in Charlottesville? That mystery is pretty easily solved in The Hidden Window Mystery, number 34 in the enduring series about the Titian-haired tee... -
Wrong-way Hogberg sentenced to two-plus years
Wrong-way drunk driver Michael Dennis Hogberg gets a two-year, three-month sentence March 15 from Albemarle Judge Cheryl Higgins. Hogberg is the man who burst onto the scen...
The Brazen Careerist
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Obstacle leap: Don't let a defect derail you
Here's a tale to show that no obstacle is too high when it comes to career success. It's about my friend Ann, who has a really deep voice. It isn't a sexy deep voice; it so...
Sports Doctor
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Beware the Ides: VT's Hokies deserved NCAA's snub
Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 2:Caesar: Who is it in the press that calls on me? I hear a tongue shriller than all the music cry, "Caesar!" Speak. Caesar is turn'd to hear.So...
Strange But True
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An earful: Listening while driving as dangerous as talking
Q. Even if you're careful to refrain from cell phoning while driving, what allied form of carelessness might develop as you carpool to the office? –A.G. Bell
Letters
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Biscuit Run good for the locals
For the sake of argument (and I am not agreeing with your argument), let's say that you are right, that the taxpayers are getting hosed. [January 6 cover story: "Bad men? N... -
Chief should note malaise at old P.D.
As a long time resident of Fairfax County now living in Afton (recently Greenwood), I am a bit perplexed by newly hired Deputy Police Chief Steve Sellers characterization o...
Black and White
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Brick house
The house associated with the Rives Street store was torn down last week.~Bill Emory puts up a new photo every day at billemory.com/blog.