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Chairman of the board: Fuhgeddaboudit when 29 bypass involved
Published on Jan 14th, 2013
23 comments If tradition had been upheld on the Albemarle Board of Supervisors, Duane Snow would be chairman. Instead, at its first meeting of the year, the usually decorous board got testy over election of the...
Boyd's Crossing: 3-mile Old Mills Trail finally open for business
Published on Nov 20th, 2012
4 comments Last week, a new 3-mile trail was opened along the Rivanna River, the Old Mills Trail, that connects Darden Towe Park to the new Martha Jefferson Hospital, and is designed for walkers, runners,...
Questioning authority: RWSA chloramine plan stirs water fears
Published on Jun 11th, 2012
23 comments Perhaps if the agenda had said, "Addition of strychnine to water supply," the matter might have gotten a lot more attention than it did a year ago when the water authority okayed the addition of a...
Person of the year: Ken Boyd. King of the road... and the midnight vote
Published on Dec 15th, 2011
18 comments If Ken Boyd's entire political career were an Aesop's fable, he'd be the slow-and-steady tortoise. But when the opportunity arose earlier this year, the usually mild-mannered Republican maneuvered...
Verdant Parkway: County's part likely to open in January
Published on Dec 15th, 2011
1 comments With no opposition– only advice– from Charlottesville City Council and with the Albemarle Supervisors having resolved to open the Melbourne-to-Rio Road portion, the county's stretch of...
Ready to roll? Boyd pushes Meadowcreek Parkway opening
Published on Dec 5th, 2011
29 comments Albemarle Supervisor Ken Boyd wants the Meadowcreek Parkway open, and he wants it open now– or at least by December 8. Boyd introduced a resolution to the Board of Supervisors at its November 2...
Not political? Boyd names bypass terminus committee
Published on Sep 1st, 2011
31 comments Sometimes it seems there's nothing local governments love better than to set up citizen task forces. That's why it was so out of the ordinary to hear a rash of criticism when Rivanna District Supe...
Politics
Published on May 19th, 2011
1 comments "In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal though they existed before we were born: that they are not superior to the citizen: that every one of them...
Supe's surprise: Supervisor Ken Boyd seeks 3rd term
Published on May 12th, 2011
35 comments When Albemarle Supervisor Ken Boyd made an unsuccessful run for the 5th Congressional District Republican nomination in 2010, he said he would not be seeking another term on the Board of Supervisors...
Dead presidents to County: How dare you open!
Published on Feb 15th, 2010
11 comments A giant swath of snow hangs off the roof of Sutherland Middle School February 13, two days before students returned after a nearly two-week, snow-induced hiatus. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER "Buses are...
Supes pick Mallek for chairman of the board
Published on Jan 6th, 2010
15 comments Ann Mallek is selected chairman of the Albemarle Board of Supervisors at its first meeting of the year January 6. While Mallek, as former vice chair, traditionally would have been next in line for...
Ken Boyd bows out of chair race
Published on Dec 30th, 2009
7 comments After a Daily Progress article revealed that he wanted to retake the chairmanship of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, Republican Ken Boyd–- who is also seeking his party's nomination...
Blow to the flow? RSWA, Boyd distancing from monopoly talk
Published on Oct 10th, 2009
16 comments “It is absolutely false that I supported flow control,” says BoS member Ken Boyd, calling it “more than a stretch” to suggest he ever did. FILE PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER Two weeks after the Rivanna...
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