January 31st, 2013 issue #1205

January 31st, 2013

The Liar's Club: Keeping the wild history of White Hall alive

Nazi POWs picking peaches in Crozet? Check. An Albemarle County farm boy surrounded by Ethiopian tribesmen carrying spears? Believe it. The Albemarle County area called White Hall might not look like much more than bucolic countryside for those just driving through, but folks stopping at historic Wyant's Store any weekday morning may learn that things aren't always as they appear– and, if they listen up, they'll hear some wild stories being told by a group of men who call themselves the Liar's Club.

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The week in review

Worst exercise of Second Amendment rights: A man walks into Kroger on Emmet Street with a loaded AR-15 semi-automatic rifle January 27. Worst idea for a hoax: University of...

Groceryland: Albemarle Square gets fresh

Yes, Charlottesville, you will soon have yet another grocery store option, as the North Carolina-based gourmet grocery store chain The Fresh Market is set to open on Februa...

Senator Henry Marsh's big day

Blogger Waldo Jaquith was at the Virginia State Capitol on Monday, January 21, when Republican senators passed a controversial redistricting bill. This is his account of th...

Fifeville farmhouse: Country charm, convenient location

Address: 311 6 1/2 Street SWNeighborhood: FifevilleAsking: $250,000Assessment: $284,400Year Built: 1925Size: 1502 finished sq. ft.Land: .1260 acresCurb Appeal: 7 out of 10L...

Property auctions

January 31 at 1pm at the Charlottesville Circuit Court Property: 1107 6th Street SE Debtor: Paul A. Accardo Original amount owing: $218,000 Bidder brings: 10 percent I...

Birds of a feather

Hey, we thought they flocked together, but this juvenile swan joining Canada geese at Beaver Creek Reservoir in Crozet apparently didn't get that memo. The Wildlife Center ...
Dead or alive: The Hook's legislative watch

Week 3 of the General Assembly and suddenly redistricting is a hot topic, putting Virginia on the national map– and on the Colbert Report– with the Senate Repub...
Flu season: 3 deaths reported at UVA Medical Center

An already bad flu season has turned worse with three flu-related deaths reported at UVA Medical Center. One of those was well-regarded architectural photographer Philip Be...
Rare openings: Treasurer, commissioner of revenue up for grabs

Commonwealth's attorney and sheriff are the better known constitutional officers; treasurer and commissioner of revenue– not so much. In the next year, each of these ...
Surprise redistricting: Local GOP delegates mum about controversy

Business for the day had already concluded in Richmond on January 21– Martin Luther King, Jr. Day– when Republican senators took advantage of the absence of a D...

Spin doctors: Good pitchers know their physics

Q. What tips did the future baseball pitcher pick up in his college physics class? –N. Ryan A. He learned that a spinning ball may curve as much as 12 inches on its way t...

Flash of color on a snowy morning

Schools were closed and bricks were slick on Thursday morning, January 24, as a jogger travels the nearly empty Downtown Mall.

Get Out! events, shows, things to do

"Simplified gestural figures continue to illustrate the wonder and the struggle of being human, and our hunger for validation.”– Intimacy Theories, by Polly Br...