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Residents cowered in basements, the Pavilion cancelled its show, NBC29 pulled out the red Storm Team jackets. Was it all an overreaction?
Worst Friday morning: Sixteen-year-old Sydney Aichs is struck and fatally injured by a tractor-trailer on U.S. 29 north as she leaves her Forest Lakes South neighborhood May 9 to go to Albemarle High
IMAGE COURTESYGuilt-- probably not the reaction Rosemarie Fiore was going for with her wide-ranging exhibition, "Painting, Performance, Machines" at Second Street Gallery. Yet, confronted with her f
"I'm hairy noon and night. Hair that's a fright. I'm hairy high and low. Don't ask me why. Don't know" (Hair, the musical).  At my school, Denison University, when we produced Hair, they actuall
Oil prices have climbed to their highest level ever, flirting with $120 per barrel. And consumers are feeling this price spike at the pump, with gasoline averaging $3.61 per gallon in the United State
MACAA's new executive director continues the war on poverty at a time when life is costlier than ever.
"Especially when I'm here studying late at night," says regular Greenberry's customer Kate Gregg, "a glass of wine would be great."PHOTO BY COURTENEY STUARTThe windows of Greenberry's are often filled
Gary AlbertAgent, State FarmPHOTO COURTESY GARY ALBERTQ: How do I make my home work for me financially, especially in the so-called housing crisis we're in? A: As the housing and financial markets mo
As a baseball fan, I dread the double play. Correction: as a Cubs fan, I fear it. Will Ronny Cedeno have true aim toward first, or will he throw wide into the dugout? Will Aramis Ramirez forget to dri
As I reported in my last column ["Unhappy ending: Customer, furniture-seller at odds," May 8], Meghan Pianta emailed me two weeks ago to update me that after almost seven months she still had not rece
Financial grind: County officials say they were "surprised" to receive a bill for their half of the $200,000 renovation of the McIntire Skatepark. PHOTO BY DAVE MCNAIRWhen the skateboard park on McInt
APPEARED IN THE HOOK: June 21, 2007 in issue 0625 ADDRESS: 2860 Cindy Lane, Stony Point ASKING PRICE: $529,500  ASSESSMENT: $356,600 LISTED BY: Barbara Seidler, Real Estate III, 960-2102
ADDRESS: 5310 Havenwood Lane NEIGHBORHOOD: The Quarries, Schuyler ASKING: $625,000 ASSESSMENT: $529,200 YEAR BUILT: 2006 SIZE: 2,348 fin. sq. ft. LAND: 21 acres CURB APPEAL: 8 out of 10 LISTED
May 19 at 3pm at the Albemarle County Courthouse Property: 530 Rolling Valley Court, Foxcroft Debtor: Shay T. and Anita R. Nixon Amount owing: $274,550 Bidder brings: $15,000 or 10 percent of the
ALBEMARLE 1/8 Geoffrey S. Hubona to William T. Hubona, Michele H. Heine, and K. Susan Hubona, 17.43 acres on State Route 20, $553,120. Rogers Building Systems LLC to Lois S. Keeney, condominium uni
Two popular gallery/museum directors are out the door. So's the head of the Paramount. Is it spring cleaning time?
Two popular gallery/museum directors are out the door. So's the head of the Paramount. Is it spring cleaning time?
Former City Councilor Rob Schilling finds something malodorous about the City's plans to support affordable housing by giving to Habitat for Humanity the North Berkshire property that caused the bankruptcy of a young couple-- who were seeking affordable housing themselves.
Pat Enright and Katurah Roell want to get into the dredging business.PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCERThe old quarry lies about 3,000 feet from the Rivanna Reservoir.PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCERTo skeptics, the big ho
In what a group of water watchdogs fear could be a harbinger of harsher things to come, County water bills will spike 20 percent this year, compounding last year's 30 percent jump to mean customers wi
It seems that officials have been remiss in rejecting the dredging option for the Rivanna Reservoir on the basis of only one cost estimate ["Dredging 101: New estimate at $25-30 million," May 8]. My c
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