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Where the Locals Go

Central Virginia Strawberries Ready To Pick

May 9, 2013

In addition to the downtown Farmer’s Market in Charlottesville, there are plenty of places in Central Virginia where you can find strawberries in full season right now.  And many of us enjoy the sunny sticky juicy pleasure of picking our own strawberries.  We’re in luck.  Here’s a link where you can line up your visit [...]

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Crozet Arts & Crafts Festival

April 26, 2013

Claudius Crozet Park Crozet, VA Mark your calendars for May 11th and 12th to attend the annual Crozet Arts and Crafts Festival. Featuring Over 100 artist exhibiting their fine crafts – Children’s entertainment – Live music – Great Food and even Wine Tasting – what more could you want! For more information please visit Crozet [...]

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Charlottesville Fry’s Spring Neighborhood Details

April 6, 2013

A couple of years ago we featured the Fry’s Spring neighborhood of Charlottesville in a blog article.  The historic neighborhood is near the University of Virginia and its bungalow-style homes often command substantial prices because of their desirable proximity to UVa and downtown Charlottesville. As part of their ongoing series of articles featuring particular neighborhoods of [...]

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Charlottesville’s Wonderful Chef

March 19, 2013

We can vouch for the fact that while he was a chef at Fossett’s restaurant at Keswick Hall… and also while he prepared the predictably fantastic food at Duner’s restaurant … chef Curtis Shaver deserved his stellar reputation for providing innovative and wonderful foods of all types. Recently the owners of Hamilton’s restaurant on Charlottesville’s downtown mall [...]

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Fluvanna Master Gardener Classes and Sales

February 23, 2013

Folks living in Fluvanna County are fortunate to have an organization called Fluvanna Master Gardeners.  These garden gurus offer various community education classes (available to the public as well as to private groups). On March 3, 2013 they’ll host a class about growing vegetables and herbs in your garden.  Their information will be aimed at [...]

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Charlottesville’s Restaurants

January 31, 2013

The Huffington Post has just include Charlottesville in its list of 15 cities with the most restaurants per capita.  Lucky us.  Here are the rest of the cities in THIS LINK.

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Tango Charlottesville

January 21, 2013

It’s a great way to shore up your New Year’s resolutions about fitness … and still have a great time.  Really.  Give the tango a try.  Here are details for Charlottesville people who want to dance the tango.  You can be a beginner and still not be embarrassed.  Charlottesville has several dance schools and each [...]

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Charlottesville VA Physicians

December 26, 2012

Often newcomers to Charlottesville are attracted in part by the excellent reputations of our two major hospitals, University of Virginia (UVa) and Martha Jefferson Hospital.  But what happens once they’ve arrived in town and need to select their own physicians?  HERE’S a link to 265 physicians in the immediate area of Charlottesville, including the counties [...]

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The Nutcracker Performance

December 21, 2012

It just wouldn’t be the holidays without access to a performance of The Nutcracker ballet.  The music, the costumes… such sweet fun.  And it’s great to give the budding ballerinas of Charlottesville an opportunity to shine for the community.  The show will be held at Piedmont Valley Community College, scheduled at 5 different performance times [...]

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A Holiday Gift

December 19, 2012

For those of us lucky enough to live within  a reasonable distance of Charlottesville, we have a great option for a last-minute holiday gift that’s very unique.  The Main Street Arena ice skating venue on the downtown mall offers packages of skating lessons that begin in a couple of weeks and the skaters can represent [...]

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