Corrections
Dignity and justice, City Market
Published on May 15th, 2013
0 comments In last week's story, "May Day rally: Housing authority hides from protesters," the Rally for Dignity and Justice in Public Housing was misidentified. Last week's story "Vendor bender: Will the City...
Huguely's serving 23 years
Published on May 9th, 2013
0 comments Last week's story, "Appeal granted: Huguely gets hearing on possible trial errors," incorrectly said he was serving a 26-year sentence. That's what the jury recommended, but the judge sentenced him...
Corrections: Cover and back-page forehead slap
Published on May 2nd, 2013
0 comments Due to a contagious and hopefully short-lived myopia that swept the Hook offices last week, our cover bore several errors. As most of you already know, and as the Hook staff has now learned the hard...
Corrections: Cover and back-page forehead slap
Published on May 2nd, 2013
0 comments Due to a contagious and hopefully short-lived myopia that swept the Hook offices last week, our cover bore several errors. As most of you already know, and as the Hook staff has now learned the hard...
Clarification: Photo not from Boston
Published on Apr 24th, 2013
0 comments Last week's story, "Boston horror: 'Sore in my legs, sad in my heart,'" had a photo of Free Unioner Harry Landers, who did run in the Boston marathon, but the photo was from the Martha Jefferson 8K...
Four more cops
Published on Mar 26th, 2013
0 comments •Last week's story, "Recession-ender: Albemarle budget ready to grow," incorrectly says the FY 2013-14 budget adds seven new police officers. Four will be added, and three positions were unfrozen...
Correction: Wrong floor
Published on Feb 26th, 2013
0 comments In last week's story, "Bell-wether: Will Rob be our next AG?", the Hook lost count of which floor Bell's Richmond General Assembly office is on, and incorrectly identified it as the ninth rather than...
Speaker hails from Stafford
Published on Feb 21st, 2013
0 comments •Last week's story, "Not germane: House speaker kills MLK Day redistricting bill," should have identified Speaker Bill Howell's locale as Stafford. •The author of last week's essay, "Self-reflection...
Nonpartisan redistricting not dead
Published on Feb 5th, 2013
0 comments Last week's "Dead or Alive: The Hook's legislative watch" incorrectly said Senator Creigh Deeds' constitutional redistricting amendment was dead.
Delegate given wrong last name
Published on Jan 29th, 2013
3 comments Delegate Rich Anderson was misidentified in last week's "Dead or Alive: The Hook's legislative watch."
Correction: Meta-correction on math
Published on Jan 25th, 2013
0 comments In a correction to the January 10 cover story, "Missing: Inside the Dashad Smith investigation," we still didn't state a math problem right. The area of trash searched by investigators at the Old...
Corrections: Gender, trash math, minority recruitment
Published on Jan 17th, 2013
2 comments There are several corrections or clarifications from the January 10 cover story, "Missing: Inside the Dashad Smith investigation." •The Hook primarily referred to Smith's friend Kash Carson as "she...
Corrections: Gender, trash math, minority recruitment
Published on Jan 17th, 2013
2 comments There are several corrections or clarifications from the January 10 cover story, "Missing: Inside the Dashad Smith investigation." •The Hook primarily referred to Smith's friend Kash Carson as "she...
Sullivan reinstated June 26
Published on Dec 20th, 2012
0 comments • Due to an editing error not caught by presstime, the date of the reinstatement of President Sullivan was wrong in last week's cover story sidebar, "Person of the Year: The runners up..." It was...
10, not 9, Burtons
Published on Dec 12th, 2012
0 comments The number of Burtons Grills was incorrectly identified in last week's story entitled "Stonefield foodery: Burtons Grill serves up American contempo." Charlottesville is the 10th location, not the...
Wrong rail line named in story
Published on Dec 3rd, 2012
0 comments Due to an editing error, last week's cover story, "Towing tales part deux: Wreckers, guns, and money," mistakenly described the railroad tracks running past the incident site. The tracks belong to...
No 'w' in Sno Balls
Published on Nov 27th, 2012
0 comments The orange, marshmallowy product mentioned in last week's story about the demise of Hostess Brands, "Twinkies crisis hits locally," was misspelled.
Caption had wrong date
Published on Nov 20th, 2012
0 comments The caption in last week's essay, ["Sullivan's extension: And other things out of Dragas' control"], had "November 9" in the caption; the correct date that the students approached the Harrison...
Glaring omission of artist
Published on Nov 12th, 2012
0 comments Clarification: In "snaps o' the day" which ran in print on October 11 and October 18, of the West Main mural going up on the side of One Meatball Place, the mural was indeed painted on the building...
Not the department chair
Published on Oct 25th, 2012
0 comments Jacqueline Jones' title at the University of Texas was incorrectly stated in last week's "Mr. Jefferson's greed: New book challenges image of reluctant slaveholder." She holds two chairs in the...
Correction: Wrong name for ousterer
Published on Sep 13th, 2012
0 comments A caption in the September 6 issue story, "Opposition: 'Oust Obama' rallies Tea Party," incorrectly identified Albemarle GOP vice chair Steve Janes.
A psychologist, not psychiatrist
Published on Sep 11th, 2012
0 comments • In the September 6 cover story, "Unfathomable: Grief, shock and questions follow family slaying," UVA Curry School of Education Professor Dewey Cornell, an expert in youth violence, was described...
SNL robot spoof 15 years older
Published on Aug 20th, 2012
3 comments After this cover story sidebar, "Dude, where's my roundabout?" appeared in print, we realized that the SNL robot spoof came out in 1996, not last year.
Wrong construction date
Published on Aug 16th, 2012
0 comments The August 9 On the Block column entitled "Swallowtail Cottage: Birds and butterflies abound in Free Union" gave the wrong date of construction and the wrong address. The house was built in 1973, not...
Craig no Riverbend boss; Dragas says no bullying
Published on Jul 2nd, 2012
5 comments • While an investor in the project detailed last week under the headline "Big box bonanza: Hunter Craig lauded in Wegmans deal," Hunter Craig is not a principal in Riverbend Management, the firm...
Firm type, board measurement
Published on Jun 14th, 2012
0 comments • Last week's story, "Landmark move: Hotel shell bids due in early June," misstated the type of subcontractor that attorney Bill Shmidheiser represents. His client that worked on the Landmark hotel...
Colacello's words in Orth's mouth
Published on May 2nd, 2012
0 comments In last week's "Big winner: Emily Couric scholarshipper gets $30K," a remark made by Maureen Orth's colleague, Bob Colacello– "I do in-depth pieces on superficial people–" was mistakenly...
Not a foreclosure
Published on Mar 16th, 2012
0 comments The sale of 2205 Ridgeway Lane listed in the Hook's December 1 edition of $old listings was described as a foreclosure due to inaccurate information in the Albemarle County assessor's office....
Photo credit
Published on Feb 29th, 2012
0 comments The photograph that accompanied Janis Jaquith's essay in last week's Hook, "Inner grown-up: Avoid mayhem by listening to it," was credited to the Charlottesville Track Club. It was actually...
Not under foreclosure
Published on Jan 23rd, 2012
1 comments Because of a lender's error, the property auctions listed in the January 19 edition incorrectly included a notice for Bradford Young at 123 Birdwood Court. That property is not under foreclosure, and...