There’s only one thing kids like better than juice: many juices. And at Eastwood Farm and Winery, while you’re sipping on a tasting of its Governor’s Cup award-winners, your little one can enjoy a sampling of her own with the winery’s popular juice flights. The $5 lineup includes fruit punch, grape, apple, and berry lemonade […]
Public schools aren’t created equal. Neither is their funding. Charlottesville’s new citywide PTO aims to even out those highs and lows. “Our school parents are just spread pretty thin,” says Emily Harding, a PTO leader at Summit Elementary. Recent redistricting means Summit’s pupils come from newly housing-dense neighborhoods, but the school’s funding hasn’t kept up […]
In 2022, the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project conducted a survey of 2,000 straight married couples and found that 83 percent of wives and 84 percent of husbands who had regular date nights were very happy in their marriages, compared to 68 percent of wives and 70 percent of husbands who did not have […]
When summer scorches Charlottesville, the city’s spray grounds provide an excellent antidote to record highs. Located in four public parks, these structures gush, dump, and drizzle H2O to keep kids and their parents cool. Admission is free, everyone’s welcome, and the parks are open every day from 10am to 7pm, from May 16 through September […]
To say Zyahna Bryant is active in the Charlottesville community is an understatement. At just 25 years old, Bryant has (among other achievements): written a petition that helped spark a nationwide reckoning with Confederate monuments, served as a high-school student leader, been a youth representative to City Council, and, most recently, become the youngest person […]