The Mall is due to get a huge sundial in front of City Hall. I like the sister cities video teleconferencing idea better. #
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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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I wonder if we could get a price break for buying two and use the second to mark the next time capsule location.
Well its about damn time they put a sundial in, because it was getting so that a man couldn’t tell time at all in front of City Hall. Many is the time I’ve walked by that spot and thought to myself, “self, what we need right here is a sundial.”
Nobody downtown need ever be late for an engagement again.
I actually kind of like the idea of a sundial. Charlottesville’s most famous sundial currently resides up at Monticello, so sundials are already a tiny, tiny, tiny part of CVILLE culture.
Although when I think about big sundials, I can’t imagine any that would really be able to compare with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Vietnam_Veterans_Memorial
It’s quite stunning, and pretty well engineered, in my opinion.
But I DO like the idea of video teleconferencing, just because then everyday people’d be able to interact with sister city folks, and not just the city council foreign junkets. Oh well.
Dropped a link in my last comment:
http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/spherical-sundial
There we go. :-)
@the boss of me , I was about to suggest that we bury it under this one but in 50 years I’m sure it would have been dug up. I now understand why nobody remembers where it was buried 50 years ago. Judy Mueller, Maurice Jones and Dave Norris coundn’t remember yesterday the results of a vote that Council took a week ago Tuesday. Then again, Council must continue spending money or somebody may start expecting it to lower a tax rate or two.