Staunton hospital violates civil rights of Spanish speaking patient
According to a press release from Legal Aid, Western State Hospital in Staunton has violated the civil rights of a Spanish-speaking mentally ill patient.
Homeless take to street while city looks for solutions
According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), a chronically homeless person is “an unaccompanied disabled individual who has been continuously homeless for over one year.” There are certainly some of those in our area, people who have bottomed out for one reason or another and cannot get back up on their […]
Inmates prepare for life after jail
A little after 10am on a sunny May 30, five women in orange prison garb filed into a closed room in the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail for their graduation from a re-entry program.
Charlottesville Dreamers move on and up
Financial advisor Chris Poe was a college student when he first heard of the I Have a Dream Foundation while watching a “60 Minutes” segment on the program, which started 20 years ago to help poor inner city kids with school and life. “I thought that would really be cool to do someday,” he says. […]
June 08: A generation of changes
In 1975, Nellysford native Frederick Pershing Phillips began work on a tiny shopping center right off Rte. 151 where he once ran a fruit stand, selling bushels of apples for $3. “I dug the foundation with a roto-tiller,” he says. “My uncle and I built the cinder-block, I helped a neighbor do the plumbing.” Four […]
UVA student makes game of murdering religous figures
A new videogame being developed by a UVA grad student allows the player to go back in time and stop the spread of two of the world’s major religions by killing its mythical creators.
Hope homeless shelter shuts down for good
By the time (a little before 8pm) that I got to the Hope Community Center for its last night as an evening homeless shelter, the place was packed.
Local farmers defend tax breaks
A week after the county Board of Supervisors decided to consider changing the land use tax program, local farmers are still distraught. Since 1975, Albemarle has granted landowners a tax deferral for a minimum of five acres that meets prescribed standards of agricultural use. Basically, the land must be used for the sale of crops […]
Regulation headaches for local ice cream maker
Two years ago, Colin Steele and his wife thought they had conceived of the ideal product: ice cream made from all local products. Most important would be the use of milk straight from the cow. The business would be called A Perfect Flavor and would be customized ordering. That settled, Steele began to look into […]
Homeless shelter closes—new hope on the way?
A week before Hope Community Center’s homeless shelter was set to shut down, NBC29 and The Daily Progress descended on 341 11th St. NW to document its decline. But some of the homeless weren’t thrilled with the attention.