Local news, defined [April 19]

Think that the carefully combed coiffure of NBC29 weekend anchor Matt Talhelm seemed particularly crisp at 6pm? In a press release issued hours before the premiere, NBC29 announced that the station would unveil Central Virginia’s first local news broadcast in high definition digital video, the culmination of five years of work and $3 million. No […]

Correction from April 15 issue

Due to a reporting error, last week’s feature story [“We’re with the bands”] improperly identified Steve West as the original drummer of Pavement. West replaced original drummer Gary Young following the release of Pavement’s Slanted and Enchanted.

Man on a mission

It was a cold day in early December when Covenant Church pastor Harold Bare received an urgent e-mail from COMPASS. The troubled shelter group had leased the Hope Community Center in the 10th and Page neighborhood from Bare’s nonprofit, the Hope Foundation, during the month of November. But they had yet to pay rent and […]

However big you think you are

More feature articles: Man on a mission Josh Bare is driven to shelter the homeless. Last week, the city wanted to shut him down. Now, it will try to help. The Sixth Annual Homeless Census and Point in Time Count The Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless finds that number of homeless has risen […]

Is Hope duplicating PACEM?

More feature articles: Man on a mission Josh Bare is driven to shelter the homeless. Last week, the city wanted to shut him down. Now, it will try to help. The Sixth Annual Homeless Census and Point in Time Count The Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless finds that number of homeless has risen […]

Where is the First Street Church?

More feature articles: Man on a mission Josh Bare is driven to shelter the homeless. Last week, the city wanted to shut him down. Now, it will try to help. The Sixth Annual Homeless Census and Point in Time Count The Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless finds that number of homeless has risen […]

The Sixth Annual Homeless Census and Point in Time Count

More feature articles: Man on a missionJosh Bare is driven to shelter the homeless. Last week, the city wanted to shut him down. Now, it will try to help. However big you think you are The Rutherford Institute gets Where is the First Street Church?Shadyac’s vision is yet to be realized Is Hope duplicating PACEM? […]

County Circuit Court goes online

Almost a year ago, the state jerked more than $50,000 from Charlottesville’s Circuit Court after it found that clerk Paul Garrett falsely claimed his office’s records were online—state law required that all municipalities have their records online by July 2007. Then the General Assembly granted a reprieve for another year, extending the deadline to July […]

Van shooting suspects denied bond

Less than one week after driving a van into a chain-link fence, Curtis Tyrell Montague, Candace Marie Williams and Jada Marie Dubrose Dickerson were denied bond until May 1, when they will appear in court to set a preliminary hearing. Together, Montague, Williams and Dickerson were charged with first-degree murder, robbery and firearms charges in […]