Charlottesville Podcasting Network

Hawes Spencer, publisher of the Hook, joins Coy Barefoot each Friday on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about the week in news. On the Friday March 21 edition:

• One quarter of U.Va freshmen are purchasing Macs
• City plans to get rid of downtown kiosk
• The latest on the possibility of a CVS on the Corner in space currently occupied by local businesses
• The latest on Hawes’ questions on the community water supply plan

 

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Hawes Spencer, editor and publisher of the Hook, joined Coy Barefoot on the March 7 edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss a range of topics in the region.

This week:

• Staunton to have multiple trials for adult video store
• Charlottesville passes noise ordinance while Augusta County plans motorsports park
• Spencer says dredging of South Fork Rivanna Reservoir is the only thing necessary to complete 50-year water supply plan

 

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Hawes Spencer of the Hook joins Coy Barefoot on the January 5th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to review the top stories of 2006. Coy gets things going by playing the jingle used by former Senate candidate Gail Parker.

 

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Charlottesville in Wikipedia, Allen aides block new ‘Macaca,’ and Friends mourn UVA student

ON THIS WEEK’S COVER:
Wiki-ville: How the world sees Charlottesville
Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia that grows daily by thousands of articles. And some of those are about the great institutions and people in Charlottesville. And check out the clever way you can add yourself to this encyclopedia– for a while anyway.

ALSO IN THIS WEEK’S ISSUE:

Need to impede: Allen aides block the new “Macaca”
The campaign stop at CHO airport was going swimmingly. Paul Harris was there. Senator Allen, fresh with new poll numbers putting him back above challenger Jim Webb. But the Albemarle GOP chair decided to block the camera of the new opposition video tracker. Find out why.

Funny girl: friends mourn slain UVA student
Lizzy Hafter was a woman in the wrong place at the wrong time. The gorgeous Greenstone Overlook, located just a mile or two south of Humpback Rocks on the Blue Ridge Parkway was the site of a heinous killing. Find out more about this hard-working librarian.

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Eco-arsonist: Former Charlottesville reporter pleas in arsons
Who knew that Lacey Phillabaum was tight with the arsonists who torched Vail Resort in the notorious fires that claimed a mountaintop restaurant? On October 4, she pled guilty to torching a University of Washington horticulture building: a $7 million loss.

Also:
• Protesters of the Buckingham pig slaughter will rally in Richmond
• Rabid bobcat strikes Fluvanna
• Evan Almighty rings up some Allmighty bills
• the new SPCA director tells how she achieved a no-kill policy for dogs,
• and essayist Mariane Matera tells why she’s divorcing her daily newspaper.

 

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Every week, The Hook produces a podcast summarizing the stories appearing in the latest issue. Here are some of the items in the October 5th edition: Boar War- Questions have been raised in the government-sponsored slaughter of nearly 80 pigs in western Buckingham County. The pigs were part of a business that might have meant their slaughter one-by-one anyway, but controversy rages over the pre-dawn government raid there and at another such hunting preserve in Cumberland.

Tax brake: Late taxpayers lose car-tax relief- The County says that nearly 13,000 tax bills are suddenly a lot steeper. Folks who didn’t pay their personal property tax by September 1 have now lost the 66 state-funded subsidy.

Eureka: Grad student hits literary gold- UVA english grad student Rob Stilling found a little piece of treasure tucked inside a book in the UVA special collections library: a never-before published poem by Robert Frost.

Terminated: Hampshire fires Ludwig Kuttner- Local developer and arts philantropist Ludwig Kuttner finds himself fired from the publicly held company he helped build into a major supplier of sweaters, the Hamshire Group.

 

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