Snap o' the Day
Conduct this
Published on Aug 1st, 2012
2 comments A conductor stands ready for any last-minute passengers as Amtrak's Lynchburg-based Northeast Regional prepares for an on-time 8:52am Tuesday departure from Union Station in Charlottesville. The...
Pit bull bites Mercedes
Published on Jul 29th, 2012
4 comments According to the yellow sticker pasted to the driver's window of this Mercedes sport utility vehicle parked Related: Aug 2010: Boot'vil: UVA clamps down on scofflaw parkers on University Way (...
Burning up the derecho limbs
Published on Jul 27th, 2012
0 comments From the comfort of a hammock, a jack russell terrier watches a bonfire consisting of limbs and trunks from derecho-damaged trees in a Western Albemarle backyard.
Another stuck truck at the 14th Street bridge
Published on Jul 25th, 2012
4 comments The taller-than-10-feet truck wedged under the 14th Street bridge is a perennial mishap. This one occurred shortly before 9am July 18.
Starlight takes a pit stop
Published on Jul 11th, 2012
0 comments The Starlight Express, Charlottesville's only non-stop overland connection to New York, takes a quick food break at the Delaware Welcome Center Travel Plaza on Related Ix to NYC: Starlight finds its...
Stuck on the Buckingham Branch
Published on Jul 6th, 2012
8 comments Falling trees along the rail lines that connect Charlottesville to Chicago have put a stop to all rail traffic along the CSX/Buckingham Branch rail line. Empty grain cars have been stranded rail...
Not the usual Towe boat-sighting
Published on Jul 2nd, 2012
0 comments Every day, canoes, kayaks, and little fishing boats put-in to the Rivanna at Darden Towe Park. But Sunday, July 1 looked a little different as a replica of a "white pirogue," part of the flotilla...
Sullivan returns... to Beta Bridge
Published on Jun 28th, 2012
10 comments We saw a multi-aged group of fans of UVA and Teresa Sullivan laying down the orange shortly before dusk on Tuesday, the 26th of June, not long after the Lawn erupted in joyful noise over the...
Shanked drive: Car wrecks at golf club
Published on Jun 27th, 2012
2 comments A car lies wrecked by the golf course of the Country Club of Virginia in Richmond. The driver, who may have swerved, was reportedly uninjured.
Message to the Rector
Published on Jun 22nd, 2012
10 comments A passerby gives two thumbs up to a statement painted on Beta Bridge.
Unauthorized dialogue: 'Palace coup meets grassroots rebellion'
Published on Jun 18th, 2012
30 comments An overnight message hand-scrawled in thick red marker defied UVA's official attempts to wipe it clean. G R E E E D (they added a bonus "E") spelled out over the six Corinthian columns on the north...
Mysterious milky water at Sugar Hollow
Published on Jun 12th, 2012
11 comments Pete Myers has been visiting Sugar Hollow for 20 years, and he calls the milky milieu he saw last weekend "astounding." Says Myers, "I've never seen anything like this here, ever." He's not the only...
The Truth Booth
Published on Jun 8th, 2012
2 comments People check out the Truth Booth, a mobile audio/video studio capturing citizen input set up in the front yard of the City's McGuffey Art Center on day one of Look3: Charlottesville Festival of the...
A parking deck arises
Published on Jun 7th, 2012
1 comments The Jefferson School has been a hub of construction activity since it got the cash for an $18-million rehab late last summer. The plans include a parking deck, now emerging along 4th Street NW....
Saving Bambi
Published on Jun 4th, 2012
19 comments A samaritan who plucked a newborn fawn that had been wandering amid the traffic of Mint Springs Road near Crozet directs a trio of girls to return the errant youth to its mother, a doe who was...
Gilding with Gilden
Published on Jun 3rd, 2012
0 comments Mural-sized photographs by Bruce Gilden get applied to the side of the Regal cinema on the Downtown Mall by a team of volunteers on the morning of Thursday, May 31. The Charlottesville Festival of...
Blood on the bricks
Published on May 31st, 2012
2 comments A six-foot swath of blood drops splattered on the Downtown Mall bricks near the crossing at Second Street greeted people Thursday morning. Police had not responded to an inquiry from the Hook at post...
Bikini bonfire
Published on May 29th, 2012
0 comments In Western Albemarle a bonfire burns as nearly a dozen bikini-clad girls run around it. Must be some sort of Memorial Day ceremony– or else it was a birthday party for the daughter of a pyro.
Jennifer Stuart: She's the Paramount Idol winner
Published on May 23rd, 2012
2 comments On the same night that semi-shaven fellow with similar first and last names won the eleventh season of American Idol, a Central Virginian was named the winner of the Paramount Idol, a spiffy little...
Over Alan Jackson
Published on May 20th, 2012
0 comments This is how the free Sunday evening concert that country music superstar Alan Jackson gave the people of Louisa County looked. The May 20 event was limited to a crowd of 6,000– 3,000 residents...
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