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Has the DMB become muzak?

by Dave McNair 4:03 pm July 31st

Now Starbucks is serving up the Dave Matthews Band with its coffee. Beginning today, the coffee giant will start offering the touring giant’s latest edition of “Live Trax” in all its stores. A special TV offer can’t be far behind!

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UVA to help fat camp

by Hawes Spencer 1:28 pm July 06th

In partnership with Camp Holiday Trails and Kohl’s department stores, UVA is lending its expertise to an extended weekend camp for families with an obese child. According to a UVA release, the whole family is invited to learn healthy eating and exercise habits for nearly four days in September. Cost: $25. Value: priceless. Well, actually UVA says it’s $500 worth of food, lodging, and instruction subsidized by the actual operator of the program, the Charlottesville-Albemarle Childhood Obesity Task Force.

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Post on party parents: ‘Justice is unequal’

by Hawes Spencer 12:28 pm July 04th

Today’s Washington Post found that Charlottesville’s 27-month sentence for a pair of parents stands out as a sore thumb of sorts among parents who host teen drinking parties. Even the mom of a boy killed after a parent-condoned party (no one was even injured in the Charlottesville case) was stunned by the sentence for the otherwise law-abiding George Robinson and Elisa Kelly. The bereaved Northern Virginia mom was quoted thusly on the Charlottesville sentence: “I’m speechless. I’m dumbfounded. It doesn’t make any sense. Aren’t we in the same state?”
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Farm horror: family dies in Rockingham

by Hawes Spencer 6:14 am July 03rd

NBC29 is reporting this morning that four members of a Rockingham farming family, including two girls, ages 9 and 11, have died after they and and an employee were fatally overcome by methane gas in a manure pit on the farm.

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Fuel Co. closes

by Dave McNair 11:20 am July 02nd

Last week it was Starr Hill, this week it’s Fuel Co., as it appears our establishments bankrolled by multi-millionaire philanthropists are dropping like flies!

When Patricia’s Kluge’s Fuel Co. opened in 2003, the Hook boldly predicted that the designer gas station and bistro concept would go national, but now it appears the fancy fill-up joint won’t even be going local. In a prepared statement, Kluge has announced that Fuel Co. has closed its doors. Indeed, the doors were locked and the windows papered over on June 30. The statement suggests Fuel Co. may not have been pulling its financial weight, as the decision was based on wanting to focus more on the Kluge Estate Winery and Vineyard’s other ventures. However, no other details are being released at this time.

Still, the closure comes as a shock…and a bit of mystery. Just last November, the bistro closed for a week for extensive renovations. Apologizing for the inconvenience, Kluge said in a prepared statement, “The tradition of local food with a gourmet twist and the sleek look of Fuel Co. will remain.”

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