County school board member Chuck Pace dies weeks after election

Just six weeks after winning election to the Albemarle County School Board, lifelong local educator Charles “Chuck” Pace died at the University of Virginia Medical Center on December 18 at the age of 64 following complications from kidney disease. A graduate of Charlottesville High School, Pace returned to the area to teach science at Albemarle […]

BAR wants updated design for affordable-housing project

The developers of a proposed six-story building at the corner of Wertland and 10th streets returned to the Charlottesville Board of Architectural Review in December to get additional feedback.  “A development team consisting of Preservation of Affordable Housing, National Housing Trust, and Wickliffe Development Consulting was chosen by the UVA Foundation to be the developer […]

State of the free press 2025

By Paul Rosenberg With any list, there’s a natural tendency to look first at No. 1, and neither I nor Project Censored would discourage you from doing that, when it comes to its annual list of the top-censored stories of the year. This year, the top story is about workplace deaths and injuries—with striking racial […]

HUD awards Habitat almost $30 million for redevelopment of Southwood

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville ended 2024 on a high note, receiving a $29.1 million grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development on December 19. The grant to Habitat was the second largest awarded by HUD, which gave more than $225 million to 17 organizations across the country. “Every Virginian deserves access […]

A look back at our most-read news stories of 2024

With this issue, C-VILLE wraps up its 2024 news coverage. What follows is a glimpse at our top news stories of the year, according to Google Analytics. Big changes in the works at Dairy Market  September 4 A popular topic for C-VILLE readers (it made our top 10 list in 2023, too), changes at Dairy […]

Shannon Library lives up to the hype

By Merrill Hart After a nearly four-year closure for renovations, Shannon Library has re-established itself as the University of Virginia’s main study spot. This December marks a full academic year since five floors of expanded seating and a grilled cheese café joined historic reading rooms and the checkered entrance hall students first crossed back in […]

Local land use in 2024, by the numbers

There has not been an uneventful year in Charlottesville real estate for a long time, and no amount of column inches can capture all that happened in 2024. Here’s one way to take the pulse of this year.  0: The number of places there will be to live at 218 W. Market St. The developer […]

In brief 12/18/2024

New leader On January 1, Owen Brennan, interim executive director of The Haven, will officially become the organization’s permanent executive director. “Owen’s knowledge of The Haven and the local Continuum of Care, his calm presence in accompaniment of people in crisis, and his deep understanding of the needs of individuals experiencing homelessness are the right […]

2024 in review

By Caite Hamilton, Tami Keaveny, Catie Ratliff, and Susan Sorensen We don’t know about you, but we love a list. Quick to read, easy to digest—what’s not to like?—they’re the perfect way to wrap up a long, eventful year of news, arts, and food coverage. Behold, all the naughty and nice things about 2024.   […]

How area organizations are giving back this season

In addition to celebrating the season themselves, a number of local organizations are gathering donations for community members this December. The median household income in Charlottesville is $67,177, but the poverty rate in the city is more than double the state average—23.6 percent, according to current census data. To ease the burden of holiday expenses, […]