On February 13, 2008, Carmello “Pee Wee” Martinez was sentenced to four years in prison for his role in a shooting that left a local 16-year-old in critical condition. Reportedly a member of the Bloods street gang, Martinez had pursued an argument from the Herman Key Recreation Center on Market Street to the Blue Ridge […]
The rotten awning on Ophelia Wells’ Fifeville home was patched last fall. In two months, repair crews organized and operated by AHIP—the Albemarle Housing Improvement Program—installed a new roof and siding. They also resolved plumbing and electrical problems and conducted a lead paint abatement program inside the house. The cost? Roughly $55,000—not an unusual cost […]
Last year, Duane Snow voted alongside supervisors Ken Boyd, Lindsay Dorrier and Rodney Thomas to pass a 74.2 cent tax rate. This year, he changed his tune
Local civil rights group also sent a letter on behalf of a bus driver who was dismissed from his job for flying a Confederate flag
Months after Albemarle Circuit Court Judge Paul Peatross ruled that Cuccinelli’s investigation of Mann under the Fraud Against Taxpayers Act failed to make fraud allegations clear, news broke today that the state Supreme Court will hear an appeal by Cuccinelli
After recent votes by the Charlottesville City Council and Albemarle Board of Supervisors, the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) authorized $28,500 in engineering fees and an extended design deadline for a new earthen dam, to replace the existing Lower Ragged Mountain structure
In 1982, Virginia’s infant mortality rate was a staggering 12.9—the average number of infant deaths per 1,000 live births. The same year, Shawnte Rawlings was born to a 16-year-old mother in Garrett Square, the federally subsidized housing project in Charlottesville now known as Friendship Court. Shawnte Rawlings, 28, lives in the Westhaven public housing project. […]
The Virginia Department of Health put the annual infant mortality rate at 7.2 for 2005 to 2009.
With a roughly $1.5 million gap remaining, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors will meet Wednesday morning to discuss options for balancing the county school budget
This morning, Jay Tilden Gatliff, a resident of Woodstock with a pair of reckless driving convictions to his name, climbed behind the wheel of an ambulance and took off