January 3rd, 2013 issue #1201

January 3rd, 2013

Armed ed: Should teachers be packing heat?

"Schools should be places of safety and sanctuary and learning. When that sanctuary is violated, the impact is felt in every American classroom and every American community."– President George W. Bush, April 16, 2007, following the deadliest single-gunman school shootings in U.S. history at Virginia Tech.

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The week in review

Worst rumor: That something will happen at Albemarle High on the Mayan Doomsday December 21– one week after the horrific massacre of first graders in Newtown, Connect...

Letter from the Editor

Greetings Hook readers,The beginning of a new year is always a good time for a fresh start, and 2013 marks an exciting new chapter for the Hook. As many of you may have alr...

Family feeling: The Farmhouse at Veritas Vineyards

Owners Andrew and Patricia Hodson opened Afton's Veritas Vineyards in 2002, and within a few years their daughter, winemaker Emily Pelton, was winning awards, including tak...

Somewhere in America

By Hilary Holladay Somewhere in America, as I write this, you sit hunched over a laptop in your family’s basement planning a rampage. You are male and young—eighteen, n...

Custom design and proper pricing expedite sale on Rugby

8/30/2012 Charlottesville Richard L. & Sarah E. Johnson to Theodore W. Perry, 300 10th Street NW, $230,000 Ian Pallini to Langhorne & Langhorne LLC, 1309 Wertland S...

Fear and learning: School districts and property values intertwine

Redistricting has been a hot topic of late for many families in Albemarle County. Parents of students attending potentially affected schools have expressed concerns about t...

Property auctions

January 3 at noon at the Albemarle Courthouse Property: 3672 Stony Point Road Debtor: James A. Morris Original amount owing: $205,000 Bidder brings: $26,000 or 10 perc...

'Impossible' impact: Tsunami film an Oscar contender

The tsunami that devastated the Pacific Basin in the winter of 2004 remains one of the worst natural disasters in history, and although I assumed its climax as shown in Cli...

Table of contents

COVERArmed edIn the wake of the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Americans are talking seriously about gun control and ways to keep students safer. Is arming teache...

Murder-suicide: Rio Mills standoff leaves two men dead

A neighbor had heard gunshots before behind the Rio Mills Road house where two men were found dead December 26, but she didn't that day. "We heard nothing yesterday," says ...
Self-serving: The 'Hook' goes into time capsule

In 50 years, although print media may well be a thing of the past, one local paper will be around when the time capsule stored at the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical S...
Spy-cam finale: Former UVA law student sentenced

Joshua Gomes, the second-year UVA law student arrested for breaking into Carruthers Hall and planting a coat-hook camera in the registrar's office, got a three-year suspend...

Roseberry's lens

Photographer Ed Roseberry, a man whose images constitute a powerful record of more than 50 years, was on the job at Charlottesville's 250th birthday celebration, shooting ...