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Pepys' Diary (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
(Lord's day). Up and, after being trimmed, to the office , whither I upon a letter from the Duke of Albemarle to me, to order as many ships forth out of the river as I can presently, to joyne to meet the Dutch; having ordered all the Captains of the ships in the river to come to me, I did some business with them, and so to Captain Cocke's to dinner, he being in the country. But here his brother Solomon...
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Hull House NC (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
State official blames agency’s management By REGGIE PONDER Staff Writer Saturday, October 04, 2008 Albemarle Mental Health Center has already exhausted its state funding four months into the fiscal year, prompting the regional agency to reduce staff and cut funds for at least one mental health service. An official with the N.C. Division of Mental Health blamed AMHC’s funding shortage on the agency’s...
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
By Reggie Ponder - October 07, 2008 Albemarle Mental Health Center has eliminated 53 positions in response to its critical funding shortfall. AMHC management said Tuesday that 16 of the positions already were vacant. Of the 37 others, eight are filled by employees who are taking other positions with AMHC. Management officials would not indicate the specific positions being eliminated or the
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
By REGGIE PONDER - October 04, 2008 Albemarle Mental Health Center has already exhausted its state funding four months into the fiscal year, prompting the regional agency to reduce staff and cut funds for at least one mental health service. An official with the N.C. Division of Mental Health blamed AMHC’s funding shortage on the agency’s management. But AMHC officials placed blame on state
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Moonbattery (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Ever wonder why you see far more Obama than McCain signs, although they've been roughly even in the polls? Via Cassy Fiano, here's what happens if you put out McCain signs on your own property even in rural Albemarle County,...
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SWAC Girl (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
In a rugged mountain area of the Shenandoah National Park that is reportedly notorious for rattlesnakes, 50-year-old Earl Funk of Staunton has not been heard from since Monday when he and a friend were hunting ginseng at Cedar Mountain. Friends, search-and-rescue crews, Albemarle sheriff's personnel, and Park service personnel are still combing the treacherous terrain looking for the man described...
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Green Car Congress (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
UOP LLC, Albemarle and Petrobras have signed a technology cooperation agreement to demonstrate and further the commercialization of UOP’s Catalytic Crude Upgrading (CCU) process technology. UOP developed the CCU process in 2005 as a cost-effective option to upgrade heavy crude...
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SWAC Girl (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
What happened to Earl Funk , the 50-year-old Staunton resident who disappeared in Shenandoah National Park Monday afternoon? Hunting ginsing with a friend in the Albemarle County area of the park near Walnut Level Road at Cedar Mountain, they separated and agreed to meet at a predetermined location before dark. Mr. Funk never arrived, and a search has been underway each day since. Forty volunteers...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Companies will work together to drive commercialization of innovative
technology for efficient and cost effective upgrading of heavy crudes
BATON ROUGE, La., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Albemarle
Corporation, (NYSE: ) a global leader in specialty chemicals and
sustainable clean energy solutions, has signed a technology cooperation
agreement with UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, and Petroleo Brasileiro...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
The rising price of gold and tightening credit conditions have helped pawnbroker Albemarle ? Bond secure record profits after building up its pawn loan book by more than half.
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Waldo Jaquith (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
All you local Democrats (and surely even those of you not of the Democratic persuasion and, hey, even those of y’all not local) are encouraged to attend the annual Albemarle Democratic BBQ at Ash Lawn this Sunday. It’s from 3pm-7pm. There’s always music, speechifying, and genuinely good food. Admission is $20, $5 for kids, and [...]
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cvillenews.com (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
With the Monticello visitors center having moved, the 20S C’ville/Albemarle visitors center is closing.
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Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
Rossport Solidarity Action 12 noon Monday 15th Sep Allseas UK offices, 7 Albemarle St, Westminster, London WIS 4HQ Support the Mayo Hunger Striker & demand Allseas leaves Ireland. Allseas UK own the pipe laying ship Solitaire that Shell has hired to lay the offshore…
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cvillenews.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
The Albemarle Place shopping center is back on track, Brian McNeill writes in today’s Daily Progress, something like eight years after they first started promoting it. Last year it turned out that the developers never bothered to check if the city’s sewer line has capacity for such a huge development (it doesn’t), and that basically [...]
