City Council faces a very political decision this week as it interviews and selects the chair of the board of the local water and waste authority. Seven have applied for the position, which is the only citizen representative on a five-person board that makes decisions for the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) and the […]
Unable to find a tenant for the former Order from Horder space on the east end of the Downtown Mall,
Just about everybody saw it coming, and now it’s official: Football Head Coach Al Groh has fired his son, Mike Groh, from his position as offensive coordinator.
It was Virgil Goode who out spent Tom Perriello by $250,000. Combined, both campaigns spent $3.5 million on the race for the Fifth District congressional seat, with Perriello laying down $1.69 million and Goode burning through $1.81 million.
Yesterday, the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation (CACF) announced that it will give $75,000 to a Richmond-based nonprofit, Virginia Supportive Housing, in get the ball rolling on permanent housing for the local homeless.
What began as a simple fact-checking measure has ended in a court settlement, with C-VILLE freelancer and former staff writer Jayson Whitehead coming out on top—sort of.
In January, Overton McGehee, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville, will take his talents to Richmond, where he will serve as executive director of the state Habitat for Humanity organization. The state organization works with the 51 habitat chapters in Virginia as well as working on legislation. Come January, Overton McGehee will […]
It took a couple of hours, but at a rare joint meeting on November 25, Charlottesville’s City Council was able to work out a compromise with the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors that both sides hope will appease skeptical citizens without holding up the City and county residents will pay for a $25,000 pipeline review […]
As expected, Virgil Goode did not go gently into that good night. Down 745 votes to his Democratic challenger Tom Perriello, Goode filed paperwork last week in Albemarle County Circuit Court (the home of his opponent, as required by federal law) and set in motion the recount process for the Fifth District Congressional race. Goode […]
Several local citizens and businesses are calling on City Council to cancel the Downtown Mall “renovation†(read: rebricking) project in an open petition to city government. Instead, they want the city to perform maintenance work.