Letters
LETTER- Hook's subconscious revealed
Published on Aug 30th, 2007
0 comments In your August 23 HotSeat article about my candidacy for Charlottesville City Council ["Psych! Indie Haskins analyzes Council run"], you made multiple references to my professional efforts as a...
LETTER- Tone down sensationalism
Published on Aug 23rd, 2007
0 comments Like others in Charlottesville, I'm delighted that this man has been caught and hope he will never be let out of prison ["Arrested! A decade after first known attack, serial rape suspect in custody...
LETTER- Sharp reader spots typo
Published on Aug 23rd, 2007
0 comments Hook ups ante by maximizing font size of typos and adding brilliant color to them. ["Richelle Claiborne bids town aidieu," August 16]. It's "adieu." Not pretty in pink. Wow, that's big. Catherine...
LETTER- Why use old photo?
Published on Aug 16th, 2007
0 comments I read the Annual Manual [August 2] and enjoyed it as usual. I was happy to find mention of our Municipal Band concerts at the Charlottesville Pavilion, among the wealth of local information provided...
LETTER- Why leave trees, chop weeds?
Published on Aug 16th, 2007
2 comments I feel obligated to comment on your "Tough Customer" story, "Hello, hello: Tree dispute falls on deaf ears" [August 9].   How strange that Brenda Jones "has been for the...
LETTER- It's easy to live simply
Published on Aug 16th, 2007
0 comments I hate to rain on anyone's parade, but no one has to essentially go into exile like Heather and Logan Ward, the couple in the [August 9] cover story, "An uncommon past time: The hardship of the...
LETTER- Blind Lemon inspired 'Starship'
Published on Aug 9th, 2007
0 comments Regarding Linda Sherman's "Culture Vulture" cartoon in the July 12 issue, have no fear that Jefferson Starship will infringe on TJ or UVA/Monticello. The band was named for Blind Lemon Jefferson, a...
LETTER- Joseph's transformation suspicious
Published on Aug 9th, 2007
1 comments Prize-winner Jen Fariello's charming pictures for The Hook's recent HotSeat on Marcia Joseph compelled me to write ["The funeral singer: Joseph's coats of many colors," July 26]. I have worked with...
LETTER- Try interviewing the Master
Published on Aug 9th, 2007
0 comments Regarding your July 19 article "Yogi flare: Blessed mother raises guru's profile," I am the individual Adam Sorensen interviewed for much of the story.  While I acknowledge the author/...
LETTER- How Master Charles helped me
Published on Jul 26th, 2007
0 comments I have never been affiliated in any way with Synchronicity, nor do I follow its teachings. [July 19: "Yogi Flare: Blessed mother raises guru's profile"] I have, however, known Master...
LETTER- It was Det. Davis, not Gates
Published on Jul 19th, 2007
0 comments I read with interest your story on Katie Worsky ["Little girl lost: Remembering Katie Worksy after 25 years," July 12] not because I knew the Worskys, although I feel as if I did, but because, as...
LETTER- Downtown assaults must stop
Published on Jul 19th, 2007
4 comments Nice article on the scary spate of beatings [News, "Eight is enough: Youths strike downtown again," July 12]. I had my own close encounter outside Starr Hill one evening last November. I was there...
LETTER- Hurt deserved the goods
Published on Jul 12th, 2007
0 comments This is rather profoundly none of my business, but I was bothered by one part of the otherwise interesting article on Jack Manahan: the discussion of Althea Hurt and the disposition of the Manahan...
LETTER- TB research a critical need
Published on Jul 12th, 2007
0 comments I'm writing in response to John Hong's column about tuberculosis ["TB or not TB? Tests determine who's a carrier," June 28].   Without an increased response from our elected officials, TB is a...
LETTER- No sympathy for Kelly
Published on Jul 12th, 2007
1 comments I found the reporting of Elisa Kelly's story to be very upsetting ["Kelly's plight: Incarcerated 'soccer mom' talks at last," June 21].   There's nothing in the report indicating that Kelly...
LETTER- Tree chopping in McGuffey-ville
Published on Jul 7th, 2007
0 comments I'm sure your May 30 breaking-news item, "Trees topple in, around, McGuffey Park," triggered memories for many. Mine go back 50 years. In 1957, I got my start in public discourse as a fourth-grader...
LETTER- Was your reporter jilted?
Published on Jun 28th, 2007
0 comments Did Dave MacNair once get turned down by one of the wonderful women who started "Friends of McGuffey Park?  If not, then I'm at a loss to understand his increasing vendetta against the...
LETTER- Why misidentify me... twice?
Published on Jun 28th, 2007
0 comments Again, your publication has seen fit to publish my picture with someone else's name under it ["Question of the Week," June 7]. I don't know what problem you have with me, or who's paying you, or...
LETTER- Get expert tree advice
Published on Jun 28th, 2007
0 comments I'm writing in regard to "Tree take-down" ["Gimme shelter," June 21]. I think your expert, Keith Mann, had a very difficult task of simplifying a very intricate process, especially since the tree in...
LETTER- Bikers need trails and lanes
Published on Jun 14th, 2007
0 comments The Hook's story on bicycle commuting in Charlottesville was great ["I want to ride my bicycle," May 31].  But the true solution isn't limited to the city: only if the city, county, and state...
LETTER- Drivers should watch for bikes
Published on Jun 14th, 2007
0 comments Although Randy Salzman makes many good points, I disagree with one of his claims ["I want to ride my bicycle," May 31]. I, too, bike regularly along Stony Point Road, from Redbud Hills to Monticello...
LETTER- Photograph who's who
Published on Jun 14th, 2007
0 comments November 30, 1999: Lucile Branham Watson's ashes are scattered in the pasture behind the Timberlake-Branham house by her daughter, Jane Leitch. PHOTO BY MARY COCKERILLE Thanks for your continued...
LETTER- Build more bike lanes
Published on Jun 7th, 2007
3 comments Great article: "I want to ride my bicycle," May 31! We need more articles like this one. If you build it, they will ride. I think more people would ride their bicycles to work if they had a safe way...
LETTER- Red alert: Be sure vinyl is marked
Published on Jun 7th, 2007
0 comments I am very disappointed in Alan Zimmerman's [May 31] Tough Customer column, "Vinyl soul: Short-sheeting makes tempers flare." When I met with Mr. Zimmerman, I told him I wanted consumers to be made...
LETTER- Tell the truth about abstinence
Published on May 31st, 2007
0 comments In the article "No-sex ed: Abstinence-only aims for local support" published May 3, Cynthia Dussault asserts that there is a solid presence of the Worth-Your-Wait program in Nelson County. I have...
LETTER- Abstinence-only ed doesn't work
Published on May 31st, 2007
0 comments Thank you for bringing attention to the importance of sex education in your May 3  news article, "No-sex ed: Abstinence-only aims for local support." In response, I would like to create...
LETTER- What's WYW's real worry?
Published on May 17th, 2007
0 comments I'm writing in response to your coverage of the recent Worth Your Wait (WYW) abstinence-only sex education meeting ["No-sex ed: Abstinence-only aims for local support," May 3], and a WYW brochure I...
LETTER- Craig has the credentials
Published on May 10th, 2007
0 comments The HotSeat in the Hook with a full page picture of Larry Claytor in his Rescue Squad uniform was very impressive ["Which scene? Larry Claytor, CSI, tries again," April 19]. Included in the article...
LETTER- Document interlopers!
Published on May 3rd, 2007
0 comments Last week, Jim Sullivan sent in a photo he took in his Albemarle County yard last October of a green treefrog [Letters, "How 'bout this peeper?" April 26]. We do not have these amphibians breeding in...
LETTER- Call her madame
Published on Apr 26th, 2007
0 comments I enjoy reading The Hook and want to thank you for printing the piece on Carrie Weber [March 15: "Prodigal daughter: AHS alum lends French touch to fest"] . She was a classmate of mine, and I enjoyed...