Snap o' the Day
Cavorting: Wintergreen wide open for business
Published on Feb 16th, 2012
0 comments Two girls cavort on the Eagle's Swoop slope at Wintergreen Resort Wednesday night. While the Resort has recently announced financial difficulties, the snow-covered slopes remain wide open for skiing...
7:59am: Huguely readies for more prosecution
Published on Feb 14th, 2012
10 comments Escorted by two Charlottesville Sheriff's deputies, accused murderer George Huguely V arrives an hour and one minute early for court on Valentine's Day.
Snap: Main Street in Orange
Published on Feb 5th, 2012
0 comments Just another quiet Thursday afternoon on Main Street in the town of Orange, in this case the 26th of January.
Snap: After soaking, Wintergreen gleams
Published on Jan 27th, 2012
2 comments After a band of morning rain showers moved through Central Virginia, the sun broke through to illuminate the slopes of Wintergreen Resort in Nelson County Friday morning. As this view from downtown...
Meadow Creek Parkway amid icy trees
Published on Jan 23rd, 2012
2 comments The just-completed weekend was gorgeous with its combination of ice-covered trees and very few power outages or roadway hazards. Few places near town were as scenic as the Meadow Creek Parkway...
The hockey stick 'graph
Published on Jan 18th, 2012
1 comments You've heard of the hockey stick graph. Well, how about the hockey stick autograph?
Blue Ridge commercial
Published on Jan 16th, 2012
0 comments Staunton resident Bill Golden (right) pauses while getting filmed for a video advertising his business which partners investors with people who find distressed properties, something he claims has...
Morris men!
Published on Jan 11th, 2012
1 comments The Albemarle Morris Men enliven the Downtown Mall on a recent afternoon.
It's beginning to look a lot like... winter
Published on Jan 9th, 2012
2 comments Last week, we asked the burning question "When's it gonna snow?" in this so-far mostly snow-starved winter. And, today, the snow gods have responded with one that seemed to have escaped the National...
Raising the roofs
Published on Jan 8th, 2012
1 comments Workers position a truss for a string of townhouses at Pavilions at Pantops, a growing community that launched with a bang– literally, as blasting caused some minor damage at adjacent Fontana...
Concrete move: Market Annex work begins on Main St.
Published on Jan 5th, 2012
1 comments Workers ready the former site of C&R Auto, whose painted signs used to grace 513 West Main Street with promises of "specializing in automatic transmissions," for an expansion of the purple-hued...
On top of the pyre
Published on Dec 17th, 2011
0 comments Six boys celebrate on top of a burning brush pile at an undisclosed location in Western Albemarle.
Trader's dirt
Published on Dec 15th, 2011
1 comments You have to scrape a few trees to build something, and nowhere is that more evident than at Stonefield, the 65-acre mixed-used development at the corner of Hydraulic Road and U.S. 29. On the morning...
Autumn light rocks
Published on Dec 14th, 2011
2 comments A Hook photographer was out (along with other light-savvy photographers) on the afternoon of Wednesday, November 23, the day before Thanksgiving, when the afternoon light suffused the buildings and...
Saturday sadness
Published on Dec 11th, 2011
0 comments Diners at the Tavern on the morning of December 10 check out the breakfast fare. The Tavern plans to close on December 24.
Sing in the holidays!
Published on Dec 3rd, 2011
3 comments Choir Director Eric Betthauser directs some Henley Middle School singers at the City Market on Saturday, December 3. As they sang, the Holiday Heritage Parade was rolling along the nearby Downtown...
The last campfire
Published on Nov 30th, 2011
0 comments The final campfire at the Occupy Charlottesville encampment at Lee Park provides a warm focal point as Charlottesville police stand ready to make sure campers move on with the exodus forced by the...
Snap: The new Martha Jefferson
Published on Nov 27th, 2011
3 comments The new 84-acre campus of Martha Jefferson Hospital gleams in the morning light of a recent autumn day, as captured by pilot-photographer Skip Degan. A year after a major merger, the venerable...
Dateline vists the Hook office
Published on Nov 17th, 2011
3 comments A film crew for Dateline NBC films Hook reporter Courteney Stuart today for an upcoming story on the Abshire murder case.
Fall afternoon on the Lawn
Published on Nov 14th, 2011
5 comments Although this picture was taken two weeks ago, it depicts the warmth that has returned to the hallowed University of Virginia Lawn. Lawnies can use some warmth since they suddenly lost their...
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