The farmer’s market is open for the season. Huzzah! (Via The Hook)
Sideblog
- Some nice pictures: Ghost signs of downtown (Via LoCoHistory) and Duncan Brown's 1980 photos of the Downtown Mall. #
- Charlottesville native Will Frischkorn, racing for Garmin-Chipotle, is kicking ass in this year's Tour de France. #
- 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.
Just to clarify, it’s opening April 5th, not tomorrow.