False imprisonment: County settles lawsuit against five cops
Benjamin Burruss sat in his car in the Comfort Inn parking lot surrounded by Albemarle police. His employer had asked police to check on him when he didn’t show up […]
Come Enjoy Lake Monticello’s Affordable Resort Lifestyle
By Celeste M. Smucker– What do you do if you love all that is Charlottesville, but also want to live close to or on a beautiful body of water? […]
Close-In Fluvanna is Charming and Affordable
By Marilyn Pribus – When Eric Dahl, his wife, Jill, and their sons moved north from Florida, it’s no coincidence they bought a home at Lake Monticello where his two […]
Another name change? Albemarle school board confronts racist past
“White parents would not permit their children to receive instruction from inferior Negro teachers—and they were inferior.” These recently resurfaced words, which originally appeared in a July 1, 1956, article […]
New vacancy: Downtown bookstore shuts its doors, and neighbors wonder what’s next
As the Hallmark greeting card and gift store morphs into a Bank of America, and the lights have gone dark over Read It Again, Sam’s shelves of used books, some […]
In brief: Pesticide problems, a POWF at the Pavilion, and a poll procession
Pesticide dangers with Pete Myers As a local biologist and founder of the nonprofit Environmental Health Sciences, Pete Myers clearly knows a thing or two about environmental health. On Thursday, […]
Failing grade: Community responds to ProPublica/NYT piece on racial inequities in city schools
Last week, ProPublica and the New York Times published a scathing indictment of Charlottesville City Schools, pointing out persistent and widening achievement gaps between white and black students. The article […]
‘Middle ground’: Murphy pleads guilty to girlfriend slaying
Trina Murphy has already sat through a long murder trial—that for the death of her niece, 17-year-old Alexis Murphy, in 2014. She did not want to do the same […]
Divide revives
West Main passersby were alarmed last week to see yellow caution tape stretched in front of Parallel 38 and Gus’ Custom Tailoring, and a sign declaring Continental Divide “unfit for […]
Better access: Supes mull broadband deal
By Jonathan Haynes Lack of high-speed internet access has been a big issue for rural areas of Albemarle County in recent years. In January, the Central Virginia Electric Cooperative submitted […]