It was a cold day in early December when Covenant Church pastor Harold Bare received an urgent e-mail from COMPASS. The troubled shelter group had leased the Hope Community Center in the 10th and Page neighborhood from Bare’s nonprofit, the Hope Foundation, during the month of November. But they had yet to pay rent and […]
More feature articles: Man on a mission Josh Bare is driven to shelter the homeless. Last week, the city wanted to shut him down. Now, it will try to help. The Sixth Annual Homeless Census and Point in Time Count The Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless finds that number of homeless has risen […]
More feature articles: Man on a mission Josh Bare is driven to shelter the homeless. Last week, the city wanted to shut him down. Now, it will try to help. The Sixth Annual Homeless Census and Point in Time Count The Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless finds that number of homeless has risen […]
More feature articles: Man on a mission Josh Bare is driven to shelter the homeless. Last week, the city wanted to shut him down. Now, it will try to help. The Sixth Annual Homeless Census and Point in Time Count The Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless finds that number of homeless has risen […]
Almost a year ago, the state jerked more than $50,000 from Charlottesville’s Circuit Court after it found that clerk Paul Garrett falsely claimed his office’s records were online—state law required that all municipalities have their records online by July 2007. Then the General Assembly granted a reprieve for another year, extending the deadline to July […]
Less than one week after driving a van into a chain-link fence, Curtis Tyrell Montague, Candace Marie Williams and Jada Marie Dubrose Dickerson were denied bond until May 1, when they will appear in court to set a preliminary hearing. Together, Montague, Williams and Dickerson were charged with first-degree murder, robbery and firearms charges in […]
On Thursday, April 17, 40 to 50 men, women and children will learn from the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals whether their home at Hope Community Center will have to shut its doors. For a little more than four months, the Hope Community Center, run by Josh Bare with his father, Harold, has housed the […]
When John W. Kluge donated 7,379 acres of Albemarle County land in May 2001 to the UVA Foundation, he stipulated that the 749-acre core property, Morven Farm, be held in perpetuity to be used to support UVA’s educational programs. Almost seven years later, the non-core properties have been sold off, with Dave Matthews buying a […]
Charlottesville Police have arrested three people and charged them with first degree murder in connection with a shooting that resulted in the death of 29-year-old Shawn Anthony Luck of Palmyra. Around 2:45pm on April 8 in the area of Meade and Fairway avenues, two of three occupants exchanged gunfire inside a white Dodge van that […]
Previous coverage: Shooter sentenced to 12 yearsEmotional hearing in AK-47 case Gang member sentenced to four yearsMartinez enflamed dispute that ended with shooting Indio Martinez—the last member of a group of young men responsible for a random shooting a year ago—has had his guilty plea accepted by Judge Edward Hogshire. On March 2, 2007, Martinez […]