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Story archive - Hook water supply articles
hook graphicThe dream of providing a 50-year water supply has been controversial, as Hook water articles demonstrate. This page also includes links to official and other documents linked by these stories.
This page also includes links to official and other documents linked by these stories.
• February 28, 2008 - COVER- Reservoir dogged: A $142 million boondoggle?
2005 report - Gannett Fleming: Ragged Mountain Reservoir Expansion [PDF]
2008 maps - Hook: the urban water system and reservoir proximity to airport [html]• March 6, 2008 - NEWS- Higher and higher: Frederick claimed dredge cost $225 million 2005 minutes - RWSA - regulator meeting between local officials and regulators [PDF]
Vinegar Hill back from the dead!
Adam Greenbaum
reopened the 1930s-era Visulite Theater in Staunton in 2006.
Now, he's saving Vinegar Hill. FILE PHOTO BY JEN
FARIELLOPut away your tissues, dry your eyes, and change out of that somber funeral wear. Less than 24 hours after news of its demise, the word on Charlottesville's only independently owned movie theater: It's Aliiiiive!
"We're taking over Vinegar Hill," exclaims Adam Greenbaum, owner of Staunton's own Visulite Cinemas, the art house that opened in 2006. Greenbaum says Vinegar Hill will indeed close down after Sunday–- but only for two weeks.
"We're going to get in there, do some technical upgrades primarily, and reopen on November 14 with Rachel Getting Married," Greenbaum explains. "Charlottesville is...
Painful puzzle: Abshire talks about the fatal night
ABC NEWS
It was first considered a tragic but straight-forward incident of hit and run on a winding, moonlit country road in Barboursville. But the 2006 death of Justine Swartz Abshire, a 27-year-old kindergarten teacher, continues to vex investigators, as a series of discrepancies surround the late woman's husband, who insists on his innocence.
Last month, the tragedy found a national audience when ABC Primetime Crime, capping a year-long investigation by the network, aired an hour-long episode on Justine's death that revealed some startling new clues. But despite the new information– including phone records and a battery of injuries inconsistent with the original story– questions remain: How did Justine spend her final hours? Why did it take her husband as long as 18 minutes to call 911 after he discovered his wife's body? And how did Justine really die?
The biggest question of all, however, is one that has been whispered throughout the community for nearly two years: Did Eric Abshire murder his wife? Or is he– as he claims– a grieving widower scapegoated by devastated parents and a frustrated police force with no other suspects?
Last week, for the first time, Abshire agreed to sit down with the Hook for...
Gilmore serves up red meat at local diner
Former governor Jim Gilmore makes his entrance to greet
supporters at Sam's Kitchen on Emmet Street. PHOTO
BY LINDSAY BARNESIn the realm of American politics, "change" might be a word most associated with Sen. Barack Obama (D)'s presidential campaign. But today, in Charlottesville, another recent candidate for the White House showed that the Illinois senator has not cornered the market on the year's biggest political buzzword.
"It is time for a change," said former governor Jim Gilmore (R) to a room of about 30 supporters, "and when I'm elected to the United States Senate, we're going to give people a fresh energy policy."
Such was the theme of Gilmore's remarks at yesterda...
State wonders: Where's John Kluge (and his wallet)?
When the new Virginia Civil Rights
Memorial is unveiled in Richmond's Capitol Square July 21, Rita
Moseley, 61, will be there with her new college degree. Moseley's
degree in business administration comes courtesy of the Brown v.
Board of Education scholarship program started in 2004.
When the new Virginia Civil Rights
Memorial is unveiled in Richmond's Capitol Square July 21, Rita
Moseley, 61, will be there with her new college degree.
Moseley's degree in business administration comes courtesy of the Brown v. Board of Education scholarship program started in 2004. The idea is to pay tuitions for black students whose local schools in Prince Edward and Warren counties, as well as the cities of Norfolk and even Charlottesville, were closed in the name of Massive Resistance after the landmark 1954 ruling. In the case of Prince Edward, the closing lasted five years, effectively terminating the educational careers of some students who are now grown and in some cases retired.
The scholarship fund, however, still has some unfinished business. In 2004, fo...
