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ALBEMARLE

Charlottesville Loves its Restaurants

Charlottesville is the #14 most "Restaurant-Crazy" City. I like that they qualify "Charlottesville" as "The Charlottesville area" by virtue of their noting that "Charlottesville" has a population of 204k. and: Restaurants: 460 Restaurants Per 10,000 Residents: 22.8 I have my favorite restaurant(s) (Brookville, ahem) in…

OFF-TOPIC

What Happened to the Daily Progress’ URLs?

https://www.dailyprogress.com/news/article_5885bff4-e808-5ab6-ad42-fcb60512f9b5.html https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/news/article/12548-scottsville/ In doing brief research for an upcoming post, I discovered that (sadly) the Charlottesville Tomorrow article displays a snippet and the "Read More" goes to the Daily Progess article, the URL of which is at best a scrambled-alphabet with do decipherable logic whatsoever.…

Pumpkin Patches in Charlottesville

ALBEMARLE

Pumpkin Patches in Charlottesville

In search of pumpkin patches in the Charlottesville area - * 1) I love my clients who still come to me after closing … 2) This message the other day got me thinking - (My son's) birthday is coming up and I would like to…

GENERAL REAL ESTATE

A few of My Favorite Hikes around Charlottesville

Hiking in Charlottesville and Central Virginia is one of the biggest "selling points" for those choosing to move to or stay in the Charlottesville area. Even if you don't hike; the mountains, the air, the trails, the parks contribute to the exceptional quality of life…

CHARLOTTESVILLE

People of Charlottesville

An interesting new Tumblr blog - The Cville People Project, a documentary photography project, was inspired by Humans of New York (https://www.humansofnewyork.com/ and https://humansofnewyork.tumblr.com/). I believe that we come to know a city through the people who live there, so my goal is to depict…

ALBEMARLE

Caption This

We saw this as we were finishing up our little hike this weekend at Sugar Hollow … I said earlier this year that one of the things that stinks about living in Charlottesville is choosing what to do. Sugar Hollow remains one of my favorite…

OFF-TOPIC

Daily Progress Sold to Berkshire Hathaway

C-Ville links to Media General's non-pay-walled press release. The Daily Progress' pay-walled iteration of the press release is here. We need local news reporting; here's hoping the Berkshire Hathaway purchase provides better local news writing and reporting by the DP. For those of you interested…

ALBEMARLE

Hyperlocal News Manifesto – An Area in Which Charlottesville Excels

Local news reporting matters. Charlottesville is lucky to have great local news and great local blogs that serve to make Charlottesville a better place. I believe local journalism, local government and local economies are the linchpins of a vibrant, healthy nation. For decades, as conglomerates swallowed up…

ALBEMARLE

Tom Tom Founder’s Festival in Charlottesville

If you haven't seen or read about the Tom Tom Founder's Festival, now would be a good time to start. Inspired by South by Southwest (SXSW), it aspires to be something it seems Charlottesville has not yet seen. Offering various tracks from biotech startup to…

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Jim Duncan has been helping buyers and sellers in Charlottesville’s neighborhoods for 25 years. Get local insight born of experience.