Don’t sweat the smoke that’s hanging in the air around town–it’s from a big ol’ wildfire down in NC. I was in NC earlier this week and, believe me, things could be a lot worse here.
News and meta-news about Charlottesville, VA, since 2001.
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UVA graduation is this weekend (May 20th). Consider yourself warned. #
Theodore Roosevelt’s Albemarle retreat, Pine Knot, is looking to become more well known and accessible. #
Tablet computers are working out pretty well in city schools. #
VDOT got seven bids for the Western Bypass, but they’re secret until one is selected in June. #
One small car part is the sole evidence of who killed a Waynesboro woman in a hit-and-run on Saturday. The community at Jalopnik figured it out—it’s from the grille of a 2003 Ford F150 XL. #
Does the city have the power to set the speed on the bypass so ridiculously low? Several people argue that it does not. #
Council has again shot down the police department’s request for funding to put CCTV security cameras all along the Downtown Mall. #
A little light reading: Charlottesville’s charter. These are the rules, set by the legislature, under which C’ville exists. #
The plan for Shoppers World has been made public. Stein Mart and DSW will moving in to the complex recently vacated by Whole Foods. #
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That fire in NC is from a long history of fire suppression of an area that used to burn almost on a yearly basis. the coastal area from Virginia all the way to florida was once long leaf pine forest, a fire dependant ecosystem. Now we’ve let fuel loads build up for years without controlled burns and Nature is taking her due payment.
Many plants like the Venus Flytrap, (located only in coastal North and South Carolina) depend on fire to survive. What seems like a tragedy to us, is a blessing for this species and other endangered plants and animals.