Posted on November 26th, 2006 by Jim Duncan
For those of you who don’t read Brian Wheeler’s School Matters blog, you should. He has done a tremendous service with his most recent post regarding the potential for school overcrowding in Crozet…. You’ll be better informed citizens and parents for it.Make no mistake, even if you do not have children in the County school system, what happens to our schools affects all facets of our lives, from our houses’ values to the basic quality of life in Crozet and beyond. If only more public servants were as capable and as open as Mr. Wheeler.Our representative for the White Hall District is:Barbara Massie Mouly265 Newtown RoadGreenwood, VA 22943540/456-6191Update 11/29/2006: Brian Wheeler has a story about the now-upcoming addition to Brownsville Elementary, among other developments.
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Posted on November 21st, 2006 by Jim Duncan
Do you have a trusted tradesperson that you use? I would like to compile a list of plumbers, carpenters, handymen/women, electricians, cleaners, etc. who service the Crozet area. We all need them from time to time, and don’t typically know off the tops of our heads just whom to call…. submit your favorites in the comments or email me and I will put them together for a future post, and maybe a wiki-type listing of Crozet-centric tradesmen/women so that we all know whom we can call when we have a need.
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Posted on November 17th, 2006 by Jim Duncan
Check it out at the Crozet Gazette’s site!
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Posted on November 16th, 2006 by Betty G
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Email Alerts. Thanks for visiting!Proposed Changes to the High School Program of Studies At a meeting 11/13 at WAHS, Don Vale presented proposals for changes to the High School “Program of Studies” (POS) to a large group [...]
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Posted on November 16th, 2006 by Jim Duncan
At the suggestion of a reader, I am going to open up the Crozet community map to everybody to edit. As much as I would like to put the login and password online, I don’t think that would be the best idea in the world. So, please email me if you are interested. This could become a great local resource if people participate.
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Posted on November 14th, 2006 by Jim Duncan
In Crozet this afternoon, I passed an NBC29 news crew doing a story on sexual offenders. They happened to be filming at a vacant lot on Hilltop Street, where this gentleman is registered to live…. And how accurate is the Commonwealth’s database?… Kudos to 29 for doing this upcoming three part series.
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Posted on November 13th, 2006 by Jim Duncan
From Sunday’s Crozet Community Association email:At the CCA meeting Thursday, the following officers were elected for next year: President, David Wayland; Vice President, Heidi Sonen; Secretary, Judy Burbes; Treasurer, Emery Taylor….  He invited the CCA to endorse their amendment to the Albemarle County Comprehensive Plan, an amendment calling for the Board of Supervisors to define our area’s Sustainable Optimal Population size.  Detailed information on this amendment can be found on ASAP’s website www.stopgrowthasap.org Members of CCA will be asked at our January 11th meeting to vote on endorsing ASAP’s position….  Would Crozetians support such a proposal?Rather than link to their Word document, I have provided their Comprehensive Plan Amendment here as a PDF.
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Posted on November 11th, 2006 by Jim Duncan
Learn more about our new neighbors today and tomorrow at Wickham Pond.
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Posted on November 7th, 2006 by Jim Duncan
Especially the epilepsy has been hard on the whole family.The stress on Carrie’s family corresponds with most studies on parents of children with seizures. Most studies confirm that parents experience major stress and that the disruption in family life is considered much higher than with other common child hood disorders such as asthma or diabetes. Parents are aware of the possibilities of injuries (in a major study of 5000 persons with epilepsy, 83% of those with one or more seizure during the last year reported some kind of injury), academic problems and a much lower employment rate than the general population…. The Epilepsy Foundation of Virginia has a summer camp and family fun days to help foster the independence of children with epilepsy.
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Posted on November 5th, 2006 by Jim Duncan
John Murphy, a stream biologist and Director of the StreamWatch program, will be the featured speaker at the next open meeting of Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population (ASAP).  The title of his talk is: “Corelates (sic) of Biological Conditions of Streams & Rivers of the Rivanna Basin.”  The meeting begins at 7:30PM, November 16, in the library of Westminster Presbyterian Church, 190 Rugby Rd., Charlottesville….  Contact 996-1545 or visit www.ASAPnow.org.
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