Welcome to your new area code: 434. Wouldn’t you think that we all would have gotten a letter in the mail from the telephone company or something? nym points out some detailed documents (a PDF) that show what areas and prefixes are affected. Most people have until January 2002 to make the switch. Those of us that are mobile phone users have until January 2003.
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- The Hook calls the Progress on posting a conservative e-mail forward as a letter to the editor when the paper knew it was was plagiarized. Worse still, it's a terrible letter; why publish it at all? #
- DMB's LeRoi Moore is in the UVa hospital in "serious condition" after getting into an accident on his ATV on his farm. #
- Charlottesville resident Adam Nelson has qualified for the Olympics in the shot put. #
- Council is looking at blanketing downtown with WiFi. I'd go with a mesh network—it's cheaper, and my tests downtown show that it'll work just fine. #
- VDOT is reviewing the timing of lights on 29N. The bad news is that some of these jammed intersections are probably just getting more traffic than they can handle. #
- The Sheltons' apple orchard will begin producing hard cider, with the first batch expected to go on sale in the spring. Oh, hell yes. #
- Crime was down 3% in Albemarle and 7% in Charlottesville last year. Statewide the drop was 1%. #
- Courtesy of Google Books, "Rev. Edgar Woods' 1901 Albemarle County in Virginia" (PDF), his 412 page history of the county. I'm excited about reading this. #
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This is a community news blog about Charlottesville, VA, USA, started in March of 2001. It's run by Waldo Jaquith. It has nothing to do with C-Ville Weekly, the newspaper. Feel free to submit a story.
Our business promptly notified all of our customers about the new 434 area code, only to be told by out-of-state customers that they couldn’t get calls or faxes through to us, using the new code. They just got error messages.
I called Sprint, our local telephone provider, and was told that the problem was with Verizon, who hasn’t updated their system to accept the new code. Who knows when that will happen?
In the meantime, good old 804 is still working fine.