School Resource Officers return to Charlottesville City Schools

School Resource Officers will return to Charlottesville City Schools following a 4-2 vote at the Charlottesville School Board meeting on March 27. CCS removed SROs in 2020, when the school board dissolved its memorandum with CPD in response to anti-police brutality protests that occurred that year. Since the removal of SROs and return to full […]

Brownfield land in Albemarle should have solar on top by end of 2025

The 2020 Virginia Clean Economy Act requires Dominion Energy to generate all of its power from renewable sources by 2045—but the company began looking at ways to add solar generation to its mix years earlier.  Efforts to use some of the real estate above the now-closed Ivy Landfill have been underway since 2017, with multiple […]

UVA releases heavily redacted reviews of 2022 shooting on Grounds

On March 21, the University of Virginia released the long-promised external reviews of the November 13, 2022, shooting that killed students Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis, Jr., and D’Sean Perry. The findings of the two reports provide limited insight into the murder of the three UVA football players and Christopher Darnell Jones, Jr., the gunman. Rather […]

UVA hires Ryan Odom to lead men’s basketball team

The University of Virginia men’s basketball team welcomed Ryan Odom, its new head coach, to John Paul Jones Arena on March 24. Odom is no stranger to Charlottesville or UVA basketball, having served as a ball boy for the Cavaliers during his father’s time as assistant coach from 1982 to 1989. He credits his dad, […]

Former UVA president of two decades dies

University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III, the “father of the modern university,” died March 18 following a short battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 81. Casteen served as UVA president from 1990 through 2010. Over that 20-year period, he built a reputation for expanding educational access and promoting UVA’s global reach. Amidst state […]