Snap o' the Day
Snap o' the Day: Police cars galore
Published on May 28th, 2009
0 comments The final day of National Police Week, May 15, included this show of force on the lawn of the Albemarle County Office Building.
Snap o' the Day: Coldplay policies
Published on May 27th, 2009
1 comments Smiling Nissan Pavilion staffers hand out free copies of Coldplay's new live CD after the May 21 concert. In contrast to recent photography bans at the Charlottesville Pavilion during such concerts...
Snap o' the Day: Northtown shop center
Published on May 26th, 2009
3 comments Amid a deep recession, which includes the deaths of many shopping malls, according to a new Wall Street Journal report, developer Wendell Wood plunges forward with his Northtown Shopping Center, a...
Snap o' the Day: Free CDs
Published on May 25th, 2009
0 comments Hook interns Cameron Feller and Gordon Block catch their breath after handing out dozens of free CDs as part of a promotion between the Hook and 106.1 The Corner FM on the Downtown Mall last...
Snap o' the day: Almost-feathered friend
Published on May 20th, 2009
5 comments Fallen from its nest in Lee Park on Monday, May 18, this baby bird waited eagerly for its doting mother, who brought grub after grub and circled protectively. Flight, however, seemed to elude the...
Snap o' the Day: For fallen officers
Published on May 19th, 2009
0 comments The Virginia flag was flying half-staff in front of the Charlottesville Police Station in honor or fallen officers on the final day of National Police Week on Friday, May 15.
Snap o' the Day: Busy Bodo's
Published on May 18th, 2009
0 comments This was the scene at the Corner Bodo's at 11:14am Sunday, May 17, shortly after UVA conducted its Final Exercises on the nearby Lawn.
Snap o' the Day: the Waldo
Published on May 17th, 2009
1 comments We saw this apartment building one day not too long ago in Waynesboro: "WALDO APTS" reads the stone nameplate.
Snap o' the Day: Toady gone a courtin'
Published on May 16th, 2009
1 comments It's toad-courting time– or it was three weeks ago when these pictures were taken in the Shenandoah National Park along the Moormans River above Sugar Hollow.
Snap o' the Day: Peter Pan's finale
Published on May 15th, 2009
0 comments Applause reigns for Tinkerbell and the rest of the cast as the final performance of Peter Pan's two-week run ends for the Black Box Players, a pay-to-play theater company that often manages to fill...
Snap o' the Day: new Martha Jefferson Hospital
Published on May 14th, 2009
1 comments The new Martha Jefferson Hospital rises. The 500,000 square foot, $275 million Pantops Mountain facility is expected to open in 2012. Meanwhile, MJH has found a development partner for its old Locust...
Snap o' the Day: Full trolley
Published on May 14th, 2009
0 comments The Free Trolley leaving UVA by the Rotunda shortly after 2pm on Friday, May 8 was standing-room-only. And plenty warm–- as the air-conditioning was not functioning this day.
Snap o' the Day: Bundoran Farm
Published on May 13th, 2009
0 comments Bundoran Farm, the 2,300-acre high-end “preservation” development in North Garden, on which 90 percent of the land is protected by easements, is being developed by Celebration Associates, whose...
Snap o' the Day: Uncorraled news boxes
Published on May 12th, 2009
2 comments A platoon of newspaper boxes (18 in all) stand at attention on the West end of the Mall. A number of them (1, 2, 3, 4) are not identified as serving any publication. City Councilors were at odds over...
Snap o' the Day: Jefferson's spread
Published on May 12th, 2009
0 comments Tourists at the Monticello Visitors Center study a bronze topographical relief model of Jefferson's 5000-acre plantation as it existed in the 19th century. The model, partly based on Jefferson's own...
Snap o' the Day: Grateful skull
Published on May 11th, 2009
2 comments A skull looks out from the front of a red van sporting a "steal your face" sticker on the side and a license plate reading "RHOOB." The vehicle graces the parking lot of the former home of Star Hill...
Snap o' the Day: Looking out on Hogwaller
Published on May 10th, 2009
0 comments The view of Hogwaller from an upper window in the Charlotteville Livestock Market is interesting, but so is what happens inside.
Snap o' the Day: Dems a votin'
Published on May 9th, 2009
9 comments Charlottesville Democratic voters line up Saturday morning, May 9, to vote in the City Democratic primary at the one and only election spot, Jackson P. Burley Middle School on Rose Hill Drive. A...
Snap o' the Day: Smile, Mr. Jefferson!
Published on May 8th, 2009
1 comments Tourists pose with a life-size bronze statue of Thomas Jefferson at Moniticello's new visitors center, which stands near the shuttle stop up the mountain. At 6 feet, 3 inches, the statue shows...
Snap o' the Day: Credit union guy
Published on May 6th, 2009
0 comments Homer from the UVA Community Credit Union in Crozet stands on Route 250 at Clover Lawn to welcome new neighbor Harris Teeter, whose grand opening is May 6.
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