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Reid’s Supermarket on Preston has been powerless since around 6:35 this morning after a Waste Management truck took out an electric pole in the back of the building. “Dominion had to put in two transformers and a pole,” reports store manager Charlie Wood from the closed market. He expects the electricity to be back on in about an hour.
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A Virginia-based forest conservation group announces it will seek a new leader. Like the current 500-Year Forest Foundation boss, Ted Harris of Lynchburg, the new More… (1)
These jumbo compressors stand between UVA’s new Carr’s Hill parking deck (vantage point for this June 28 photo) and Carr’s Hill Field. (0)
Luscious Lucas, the girlfriend of one of the men charged in the July 2008 slaying of Joshua Magruder, 19, testifies in court July 1 that her boyfriend, Trenton Michael Brock, had a problem with the victim, Tasha Kates reports in the Daily Progress. That same day, Lucas, 23, is also the victim of simple assault on East High Street, where Charlottesville Circuit Court is located, according to the police arrest report. Is there a connection between the assault and Lucas’ testimony? Police had not returned phone calls at press time. (0)
The Newsplex reports that 47-year-old Samuel Murray of Charlottesville went into the Papa Johns on Ivy Road last month to fill out a job application, then stole a tip jar with $57.55 on his way out, a heist caught on the store’s surveillance camera. Charlottesville Police Lt. Gary Pleasants said there was “not much investigation to do.” (0)
This is how it looked in the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport (CHO) on June 11 when a Delta flight to Atlanta was canceled and these passengers were offered alternate travel arrangements. (2)
