A new education center along the Rivanna River is slated to open this fall, bringing students, families, and explorers to learn about the great outdoors and Albemarle County’s two celebrated explorers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. The board of the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center awaits consistent warm weather to put the finishing touches on […]
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Brigitte Bélanger-Warner, City of Charlottesville
Brigitte Bélanger-Warner, Director of Sales and Marketing, Charlottesville Albemarle Convention & Visitors Bureau Where were you born (and raised, if different)? I was born and raised in a small town called Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts in Québec, Canada (one hour north of Montreal in the Laurentian mountains). When and why did you move to the Charlottesville/Albemarle […]
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Should Trump build an 18-hole luxury golf course in Albemarle County?
Eric Trump, son of Donald Trump and president of Trump Winery, plans to build an 18-hole golf course on his property in Albemarle. The 18,000 square foot Albemarle House, which Trump bought along with its estate for $6.5 million in 2012, would become a clubhouse. The land is currently under a conservation easement from the […]
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Albemarle officials investigate new lodging options for Crozet area
The tourism industry of western Albemarle and Nelson County, mainly Crozet and the Route 151 corridor, may soon get a long-awaited and, officials say, sorely needed lodging option. Albemarle County will take steps to make itself eligible for a state financing program that could support the construction of hotels. “One thing that became pretty obvious […]
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‘I want those Yankee dollars’
7/29/09 * Culpeper-Star Exponent [ full story ] A new Amtrak coming to Culpeper Oct. 1 is not intended to serve commuters. But the addition of a second, shorter-running daily passenger train is expected to improve reliability, free up seats on the other daily Amtrak and attract tourists from the north. Though the time schedule […]
