The City has started a discussion forum on their website. The system runs on phpBB — an excellent free, open-source software package that’s similar to the software that runs cvillenews.com — and they have created one topic area thus far, “Budget FY 2002-2003.” This forum is being used as a method of getting your $0.02 to Council about the upcoming budget, but those of you that aren’t hip to the e-government thing can just attend next Tuesday’s City Council meeting at 7:30.
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Fashion Square Mall is has requested permission to expand. They’ve asked the Board of Supervisors to permit them to get rid of 600 parking spaces to make space to add more retail space. The BOS will discuss that at their 7pm meeting this evening. WINA has the story.
Today’s Cavalier Daily (newly back from a month-long break) reports that Plan 9 is finally moving into their new, bigger digs later on this month. They’ve been working with Higher Grounds for at least a couple of years now to open up a shared space next to Littlejohn’s, in the old bookstore. They will be closing down their old location, just a little bit down West Main Street, where they’ve been located for the past 11 years.
Charles Paschall, the president and CEO of Albemarle First Bank, has resigned. (You may know him from their commercials.) He was one of the founders of the bank three years ago. WINA has the story.
There’s a fifth person in the City Council race: democrat David Simmons. The 50-year-old Simmons, a nurse at the UVa Medical Center, ran in 2000, but withdrew from the race in order to bring end to fighting within the party. Simmons intends to work to help the education system deal with the Standards of Learning and increase the amount of affordable housing in the city, among other things. Jake Mooney has the article in today’s Progress.
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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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