The Emily Couric Cancer Center will get an empty shell of a fifth floor in order to have room to grow The UVA Board of Visitors (BOV) approved a plan to add a fifth floor to the Emily C. Couric Clinical Cancer Center at a cost of $8 million. The project, originally approved in September […]

UVA is expanding access to its recreational sports facilities by allowing students, faculty and staff to sponsor one adult who lives in their

For the first time in decades, the Republicans won’t field a candidate for City Council, which has three seats up for grabs in November. Why no GOP contenders? A look at City Council election history gives a hint: Republican bids usually have been quixotic affairs. In the past 21 years, only two Republican candidates have […]

State Senator Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. fended off a challenge from Scott Sayre in the June 12 Republican primary for the party’s nomination in the 24th District, which is centered in the Shenandoah Valley. Hanger, who seeks a fourth four-year term, won with 53 percent of the vote by a margin of 865 ballots. Voter […]

Charlottesville-based VMDO Architects will design the planned expansion of Brownsville Elementary School, pending resolution of a necessary contract. The firm has designed a number of area elementary projects, as well as the John Paul Jones Arena. The Albemarle County School Board approved the expansion in December to deal with projected growth in the Crozet area. […]

Maple Hill Farm, an organic farm near Scottsville where Dave Matthews’ Best of What’s Around operation is based, plans to house seasonal interns on its facility to learn the farming trade. According to farm manager Matthew Holt, this move comes in the midst of a growing trend among organic farms to take on willing interns […]

The Albemarle County School Board will continue to review a proposal to establish a public charter middle school to help underachieving students. The proposal, written by local education advocate Roberta Snow, lays out an arts-infused curriculum that provides students with an “alternative and innovative learning environment.” The school-within-a-school model being considered would place charter school […]

Mayor David Brown, Holly Edwards and Satyendra Huja were nominated for Charlottesville City Council at the Democratic Party’s nominating convention June 2. The convention, held at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Performing Arts Center, gathered 431 registered Democrats to vote for the candidates. Only one ballot was needed to select the three nominees. Huja, a […]