Just a few days shy of the anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings, Governor Tim Kaine signed mental health care reform legislation that some mental health care advocates and survivors say will have disastrous effects.
Just a few days shy of the anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings, Governor Tim Kaine signed mental health care reform legislation that some mental health care advocates and survivors say will have disastrous effects.
On Thursday, April 17, 40 to 50 men, women and children will learn from the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals whether their home at Hope Community Center will have to shut its doors. For a little more than four months, the Hope Community Center, run by Josh Bare with his father, Harold, has housed the […]
When the general manager of the Tidewater Fibre Corp (TFC) recycling facility in Chester stands up in front of 15 visitors and says that 95 percent of the facility’s work is done by manual labor, he is to be believed. Citizens of Charlottesville: Recycling all your plastic, metal and paper may be doing its part […]
What was the line that Claire from “Six Feet Under” uttered about her languishing high school compatriots? “I wish that just once people wouldn’t act like the clichés that they are.” Well, file this resolution from the City of Charlottesville in the Claire Fisher folder: On April 7, City Council passed a resolution supporting the […]
Worked for the city for: Two years Resides in: CharlottesvilleJob title: Reading coach at Clark Elementary School. Coyner, who describes herself as an “embedded professional developer,” works with teachers to instruct reading and writing. Her position is federally funded as part of the No Child Left Behind Act. Paula Coyner Best of times: “Working with […]
Last week, C-VILLE reported on neighborhood anger about graveyard vandalism at Maplewood Cemetery.
By the C-VILLE Weekly Pick-Up Ensemble, led by Brendan Fitzgerald and John Ruscher, with session players J. Tobias Beard, Will Goldsmith, Cathy Harding, Erika Howsare, Scott Weaver and Sara Yenke From the mosh pits to the nosebleed section, the floor seats to the door seats to the bar stools in the back, C-VILLE’s writers spend […]
When John W. Kluge donated 7,379 acres of Albemarle County land in May 2001 to the UVA Foundation, he stipulated that the 749-acre core property, Morven Farm, be held in perpetuity to be used to support UVA’s educational programs. Almost seven years later, the non-core properties have been sold off, with Dave Matthews buying a […]
He hadn’t received this much applause from a UVA crowd in 34 years, and hadn’t had this much attention “since the police in the Bahamas weren’t real thrilled about me trying to bring marijuana into their country.” In those 34 years, he went from being a basketball star to being practically homeless, from being a […]
The Board of Visitors convened last week at UVA, and while there was no big news coming out of it on par with the $100 million donation by Frank Batten last year, several facilities were christened as a result. The 11th Street parking garage has been named (drum roll!): the 11th Street Garage. Meanwhile, the […]