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Move-in
Published on Mar 19th, 2012
2 comments There are a vast number of residential properties around the former Martha Jefferson Hospital that were upzoned to B-1 during the time the medical center occupied the neighborhood. The houses had...
What remains...
Published on Mar 14th, 2012
0 comments Oaks in East McIntire Park. Two groups I'm involved with, the Charlottesville Tree Commission and the Charlottesville Area Tree Stewards, will celebrate Arbor Day in Forest Hill Park at 10am on April...
Gopal
Published on Mar 8th, 2012
0 comments In the Bodo's line behind goth musician and former Bella Morte leader Gopal Metro.~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo nearly every day at billemory.com/blog.
Anti-icing
Published on Feb 27th, 2012
5 comments We had a few inches of snow on Sunday afternoon the 19th of February. In preparation, the City applied some manner of brine solution to the streets on Saturday night. I’ve seen this stuff on the...
Henry Graff
Published on Feb 22nd, 2012
11 comments How does the out of town coverage compare to that of the local broadcast folk? I have not seen any out of area broadcast coverage of The Commonwealth of Virginia vs. George Wesley Huguely V.~...
Electronic occupy
Published on Feb 14th, 2012
2 comments National and local media have queued up for The Commonwealth of Virginia vs. George Wesley Huguely V in the Charlottesville Circuit Court, 315 High Street, Charlottesville, VA. The City is Very...
Escherichia coli
Published on Feb 6th, 2012
0 comments Do dog owners deal with their animals’ solid excreta?
 Pollution control people say that pet waste is a major source of e. coli in the Rivanna River. The City provides bags at the river trail...
Her Dogness
Published on Jan 31st, 2012
0 comments Sophia turned 12 on January 30. I am six dogs old.~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo nearly every day at billemory.com/blog.
Quercus phellos
Published on Jan 24th, 2012
8 comments Does anyone know the value of these trees? I heard that the timber at Ragged Mountain Natural Area– soon slated for a mega-reservoir– didn’t have much value, or more accurately, that...
Around here
Published on Jan 19th, 2012
0 comments January 1 at the nTelos Wireless Pavilion.~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo nearly every day at billemory.com/blog.
Pond
Published on Jan 9th, 2012
41 comments In our town, there is one Council meeting every two years opened by the City Manager. This is the first meeting following the expiration of the Mayor’s term when the City Councilors choose one of...
McPark
Published on Jan 5th, 2012
16 comments The golden apple of discord was rolling up and down 11 charette tables at Charlottesville High School in mid-December as competing interests sought to divvy up the remaining acreage of east...
Magnolia grandiflora
Published on Dec 22nd, 2011
6 comments I visited the Rotunda to see the doomed magnolias that have occupied the gardens flanking that structure for a century. The fate of the trees appears sealed.~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new...
Committee of vultures
Published on Dec 15th, 2011
0 comments In the 1100 block of Park Street a committee of vultures (carthartes aura) catches some early morning rays.~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo nearly every day at billemory.com/blog.
ISO quercus alba
Published on Dec 8th, 2011
0 comments White Oak is a long-lived, slow-growing tree, reaching 60 to 100 feet in height with a spread of 50 to 90 feet in its native bottomland soil. Old specimens can be massive, growing to be several...
Unengaged
Published on Dec 1st, 2011
0 comments It’s an off off year. There are 2,098 registered voters in the reconfigured Venable precinct; 131 of them showed to vote. Visiting the polling place was like visiting a museum after hours. If we had...
Hooverville
Published on Nov 24th, 2011
0 comments I caught the last hour of speechifying before Charlottesville City Council by the Occupiers. Peace, love, and social transformation. Justice! Drunks cured by love and community, abandoning the...
Oliver
Published on Nov 17th, 2011
0 comments Following the screening of Revenge of the Electric Car at the Film Festival, car creator Oliver Kuttner, CEO of Edison2, joined environmental consultant David Slutzky to talk about wheeled...
Encampment
Published on Nov 3rd, 2011
45 comments Occupy Charlottesville folk at the feet of old trooper, R.E. Lee, in late October. This not a bivouac; rather, a convenient place to camp."We, the people are of all colors, classes, and beliefs. We...
Pond
Published on Oct 27th, 2011
0 comments Independent candidate for Charlottesville City Council, Bob Fenwick, addresses news media following his endorsement by the Piedmont Group of the Sierra Club. A week later, October 25, the dredging...
Water, water, everywhere
Published on Oct 20th, 2011
12 comments Workers from TriState Utilities reline 8-inch diameter wastewater pipe from an access point at 10th and Market Streets. To prevent infiltration and exfiltration related to sewer pipes in the...
Sharrow
Published on Oct 6th, 2011
26 comments I'm supposed to know what a sharrow is. It's a bike safety pictogram, but my first response was to wish the pictogram user had employed words since hieroglyphics don’t speak to me. So what does this...
Three chieftains
Published on Sep 22nd, 2011
1 comments These three members of the CFD– Battalion Chief Pete Sweeney, Volunteer Chief Tom Yenovkian, and Volunteer Assistant Chief Jessie Sexton– were part of the 9/11 commemoration on the...
Woolen Mills Chapel
Published on Sep 15th, 2011
0 comments Near the end of Market Street in Charlottesville.~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo nearly every day at billemory.com/blog.
Temporary infrastructure
Published on Aug 25th, 2011
5 comments A lineman from Davis H. Elliot Electrical Contractors works to untangle a 20,000 volt distribution line on Park Street. We had a thunderstorm in Charlottesville on Sunday, August 15. Some trees...
NoVA
Published on Aug 18th, 2011
8 comments Route 29 & Hydraulic Road, Charlottesville, Virginia• 2,000,000 square feet• A mixed-use development located in award-winning Charlottesville, Virginia – "the  Napa of the East Coast...
River thing
Published on Jul 21st, 2011
0 comments On Wednesday, July 20, the City Council was scheduled to interview candidates for the City’s “Planning Commission.” I hope the Councilors will ask the PC wannabes to: "Identify strategies to...
Sporting goods
Published on Jul 14th, 2011
0 comments Located on Monticello Road near I-64, Carterfields Sporting Supplies is "home of the big bucks."~Commentator Bill Emory usually puts up a new photo every day at billemory.com/blog.
Liberty and tulip tree
Published on Jul 7th, 2011
0 comments US district court for the western district of Virginia held session at Monticello July 4 and naturalized a group of new US citizens. There were a lot of Coca-Cola bottles and logos in evidence. (The...
Envy
Published on Jun 30th, 2011
0 comments I have envy. One of the dread Capital Vices, a.k.a. the seven deadly sins. Mine's traffic control envy. Every day, I bike through the 2nd Street/Northwood corridor of Charlottesville, a lovely...