Oliver Kuttner’s X-Prize team has won the top award, the AP reports. The $10M prize is being split three ways, with Kuttner’s Edison2 team getting $5M, a North Carolina company getting $2.5M, and a Swiss team getting the remaining $2.5M. Kuttner has no intention of manufacturing and selling the car in its present form, but he does intend to plow the winnings into R&D to create a consumer-friendly version. Over one hundred teams entered the contest, which is funded by Progressive Insurance, spending two and a half years building and testing their cars.
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Harley Miles has been appointed as the interim Albemarle County School Board member, the Daily Progress reports. After Brian Wheeler announced his resignation last month, fifteen candidates applied for the seat. After an awkward process of whittling down the candidates, Miles’ selection was announced last night. It’s not clear whether he’ll serve out the remainder of Wheeler’s term—which runs through next year—or whether the courts might require that a special election be held.
Some folks are thinking seriously about shutting down the McIntire Recycling Center, Brian Chidester writes in this week’s C-Ville Weekly. With Van Der Linde Recycling’s single-stream waste management system, use of McIntire is declining as waste haulers start telling customers that they can just dump everything in their trashcans. The city contracts with Van Der Linde now for hauling household waste, but still has the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority handle recycling. The question is whether that RSWA relationship is going to continue for either the city or the county, or whether Van Der Linde will underbid the RSWA and simply eliminate any need for a recycling center. Come December, the city and county will need to figure out if they’re going to stick with the RSWA. If they switch to Van Der Linde, things will get interesting.
Philanthropist and businessman John Kluge died yesterday in Charlottesville. The famed businessman ranked as the wealthiest American from 1989-1991, a run cut short by the rise of Microsoft. Nine years ago he donated his estate, Morven, to UVA, and auctioned off most of the estate’s contents in 2005. He lived mostly in Florida in recent years. Perhaps as locally well-known as him is his ex-wife, Patricia Kluge, and his widow, Tussi Kuttner. John Kluge was 95 years old.
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Police announced this afternoon that their investigation into what was initially believed to be a fatal fire on Rugby Avenue is now a homicide investigation. #
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied George Huguely’s appeal. His second-degree murder conviction will stand, WRIC reports. #
In a carefully worded story, and not citing specific sources, WTVR reports that forensic evidence belonging to Jesse Matthew Jr., the main suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, matches forensic evidence collected during the investigation of Morgan Harrington’s 2009 murder. #
In the wake of Hannah Graham’s disappearance, and the evidence that came from private security footage, city officials are revisiting the question of installing security cameras on the downtown mall. #
Both Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta and former Electoral Board member Stephanie Commander have turned themselves in to the police on
foursix and four felony counts of embezzlement, respectively. #Ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health budget doubled and schools like the University of Virginia built massive new research facilities. A decade later, those buildings remain largely underutilized. NPR visits UVA in this story on the effect of federal binge and spurge spending in the sciences. #
In 2012, Council approved a new student housing complex on West Main—now some council members are questioning whether what they were shown matches what was built. #
The Architectural Review Board has approved a bike-themed mural on West Market, below the McGuffey Art Center, although at least one member expressed concerns that it might look like the bicyclists were riding away from Charlottesville’s downtown. #
City Police Chief Tim Longo is meeting with city leaders to work on protocols regarding the use of military surplus police weapons in Charlottesville. #
A 100-year-old Colonnades resident received military honors for her service in the WWII Women’s Army Corps #
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