Education Beat: CATEC’s annual fundraiser a feast of opportunity

Our Education Beat coverage is the result of a partnership with Charlottesville Tomorrow.  Two days before Thanksgiving, Bob Bressan was in the throes of organizing the Charlottesville Albemarle Technical Education Center’s 12th annual Thanksgiving fundraiser, rattling off orders for walnut stuffing and ham biscuits, reminding students to take turkey gravy off the stove, and running pots […]

City underwrites effort to expand electric car chargers

Charlottesville is giving a shot in the arm to its nascent electric car scene, something officials believe will be good for the local environment—and the local economy. The city is now accepting applications for a new mini-grant program that will steer $50,000 from an existing public green initiatives fund to businesses that install charging stations, […]

Is there a political fix for Virginia’s troubled mental health system?

As the tragic case of Gus Deeds—who attacked his father, State Senator Creigh Deeds, one day after undergoing a mental health evaluation and being released due to a reported lack of hospital space—shows all too clearly, the way a state chooses to allocate its budget resources can make a huge difference for people in need. […]

What’s Happening at the Jefferson School City Center?

Vinegar Hill Cafe Celebrates its “first” First Friday in December Vinegar Hill Cafe will be hosting its first First Friday event at the Jefferson School City Center next Friday, December 6, from 5 to 6 pm. Cafe Manager Joel Schectman will have complimentary hors d’oeuvres and beverages on hand. The cafe will be showcasing the […]

Cell phone as sex toy? The struggle to respond to teen sexting

Last month, terror struck Albemarle County when a Dunlora teen vanished from her neighborhood late one night. Frantic, her parents took to social media to plead for help in what they described as an abduction, and police sprang into action, asking for the media’s assistance in issuing an alert. In the wake of other recent […]

Friends and colleagues remember another side of Gus Deeds

A week after his death, many of Gus Deeds’ longtime friends are still trying to reconcile the person they knew with the one the world was introduced to in grim headlines last Tuesday, when news broke that the 24-year-old son of State Senator Creigh Deeds had attacked his father before taking his own life at the […]