Monthly Archive for April, 2013

County Eyes New Library Location

Published by Waldo Jaquith on April 29, 2013 in In Brief. 6 Comments

The Northside library branch may move to West Rio—the old Phillips Building Supply.  #

Woodbrook Divided Over Bench and Bridge

Published by Waldo Jaquith on April 29, 2013 in Blogs and General News. 13 Comments Tags: .

Via Charlottesville Tomorrow, I see that the Woodbrook Neighborhood Blog has a long piece about how the neighborhood is divided over an Eagle Scout’s project to build a bench and a bridge over a county-owned lagoon as a part of a trail on public land. Blogger Dan Gould conducted a bunch of interviews, talked to county employees, took a bunch of photos, and even took an informal survey of landowners who live nearby. A lively discussion has ensued in the comments section. It’s a great piece of work about a parochial matter, the sort of thing that would surely have no place in a regional publication, but that anybody who lives in the Woodbrook area surely finds very interesting.

Charlottesville Tomorrow Teams Up with C-Ville Weekly

Published by Waldo Jaquith on April 29, 2013 in Business, Education and Meta News. Closed Tags: , , , .

Charlottesville Tomorrow is extending its content sharing to a new publication, they’ve announced in an unsigned story, to include the publication of education stories in C-Ville Weekly. No money is changing hands in the agreement, which includes a cooperative venture to put together a voter guide for city and county school board elections in November. The collaboration gets underway in June. Simultaneous to this news is Charlottesville Tomorrow’s Kickstarter-based effort to raise $17,000 to fund a new education-reporter position. The expansion into education marks a noted increase in the scope of the mission of the non-profit, which has focused primarily on development-related issues since its 2005 founding.

It was nearly four years ago that the online-only publication struck a similar deal with the Daily Progress, in a similar deal: the Progress prints the organization’s voter guide, in exchange for being able to run any Charlottesville Tomorrow stories that they want.

Trump Winery to Add Golf Course

Published by Waldo Jaquith on April 29, 2013 in In Brief. 1 Comment

Trump Winery is rehabbing the old Kluge estate golf course, only now it’ll be open to the (paying) public.  #

Republicans Field Two Council Candidates

Published by Waldo Jaquith on April 27, 2013 in Politics. Closed

Charlottesville Republicans have managed to find a couple of candidates for Council, Aaron Richardson reports for the Daily Progress. After sitting out the last few elections, the party has put forth Buddy Weber and Mike Farruggio as their two candidates for the November election. Weber is the chair of the city party, and Farruggio is a career city police officer. Weber cited mismanagement of public housing as a particular concern, while Farruggio is opposed to the new stormwater utility fee. Five Democrats are seeking one of two nominations; the winners will go on to run against Weber and Farruggio in the general election.