Dog, gone
A week after Albemarle County claimed it had no documents in response to a FOIA request for receipts from the veterinarian that euthanized a dog named Niko, it released a […]
Lingering questions
Nearly two weeks after Albemarle County seized a pit bull named Niko from the Charlottesville Albemarle SPCA after hours and euthanized him, against his owners’ and the SPCA’s wishes, questions […]
A ‘new and amazing life’
The past 10 months have proven to Charlie Anne and André Xavier that life can change in an instant. It was early morning on September 10 when Charlie left the […]
Welcome home
Several thousand people will be returning home from Virginia prisons over the next two months, due to a new earned sentence credit law that went into effect July 1. While […]
Keeping a-breast
Timing is everything, the old saying goes, and the co-creator of a new breast-milk sharing app says she and her business partner didn’t plan the launch of The Drop to […]
Fierce over 40
Most athletes are hitting the end of the road by age 40. Martina Navratilova hung up her racket at age 38. Soccer star Abby Wambach scored her last goal at […]
Exploring freedom
For years, Jack Hanrahan dreamed of visiting historical sites of the civil rights movement throughout the South. In 2018, after retiring from a career as an ad exec and relocating […]
New conversations
Weeks after a power-sharing dispute between descendants of enslaved workers and previous leadership was resolved at James Madison’s Montpelier, descendants at another former president’s home will formally gather for the […]
Preparing for reentry
The fate of thousands of people eligible for release from Virginia prisons under a new state law that goes into effect July 1 may rest with Governor Glenn Youngkin, once the […]
Above board
After nearly two months of tension that included firings of high-level staff and public accusations of game-playing and racism against the Montpelier Foundation, the dispute between the foundation board and […]