Barracks Road Suffers String of Robberies

Over the course of the last two weeks, the same man has held up three different stores at Barracks Road Shopping Center. The man — a white male in his 20s, 6′ and 170lbs-220lbs — has held up Ben & Jerry’s, Lindt Chocolate Shop and Barnes & Noble, all while armed. Eric Swensen had the story in yesterday’s Progress.

Dem. Council Nomination Tallies Available

For the curious, George Loper has made available the results from last week’s Democratic nominating caucus for City Council. The votes from each of the four rounds [1, 2, 3, 4] make for interesting analysis, as has already been done by party co-chair Lloyd Snook and Democrat Rey Barry. Comments can be posted below, of course, or you can e-mail your thoughts to george@loper.org if you want them to appear on his site.

Body Found in Buckingham

WVIR reported this evening that a survey crew has discovered human remains in the woods near the intersection of 602 and 655 in Buckingham County. Local police are guarding the scene until dawn, when the investigation will resume. The body has not been identified, but there are several missing persons cases in Buckingham that this could be connected to. This is being treated as a homicide.

UVa Attacks: What About the Victims?

Several people submitted stories about the Daily Progress’ two articles this weekend. One person writes, “The Saturday story clarifies a lot of factual mistakes that the police have been perpetuating for weeks. The second, on Sunday, details many of the victims’ serious injuries. It also quotes several victims wondering why the city establishment seems to be ignoring them and running to help their attackers. How about some predictions: since these stories don’t follow Maurice Jones’ party line, can we expect more public-access propaganda labeling them sensationalism?” Writes another, “If these people were the victim of rape the uproar for the lack of concern for victims would be at an national outrage. The city officials seem to be serious about the criminals not the victims.” Each Progress story contains new and interesting information about the attacks. If you haven’t read them, be certain to get your hands on a copy.

Another Public Parking Lot Sold

writes: Apparently, the City of Charlottesville has quietly sold the last of the free downtown public parking lots. The two-hour lot at the corner of Water St. & 5th St. SE was sold last August, according to the Charlottesville Police Dept. Although city signs limiting parking to 2 hours remain posted, the police department is no longer permitted to ticket vehicles that are parked there overtime, nor will they ticket or tow the vehicles that double and triple park there on a daily basis.

Hey, free parking!

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