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.
The ice park has reopened, now named the Main Street Arena. #
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.
For $120k, Agnor-Hurt had best have a great playground. I’d love to see a cost breakdown here. #
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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