Despite a nationwide increase in the number of illegal immigrants being incarcerated thanks to what U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) calls “heightened strategic enforcement efforts,” the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail doesn’t seem to have a problem. Though ICE has its own detention facilities, these arrests initially become the responsibility of the localities where the […]
Several city residents are hoping a new organization can bring them together with county residents in order to collectively tackle issues with local governments. The newly formed Alliance of Neighborhoods sets out to unite city and county residents and neighborhood associations to “amplify neighborhoods’ voices” and bring key issues to city and county officials. Jack […]
Both Charlottesville and Albemarle have new green feathers in their caps. The Virginia Municipal League’s Green Government Challenge, under which both localities have gotten certified as “Green Governments,” may not itself stop the ice caps from melting, but it did encourage cities and towns statewide to step up their game on sustainability. Assets like the […]
Job title: Administrative assistant, handling payroll for Charlottesville’s Department of Parks and Recreation. Has worked for the city for: 34 years. “Longer than some of my coworkers have been alive.” Best of times: The people and the parties. “I love my coworkers. The big events are fun because everyone in the department is there working […]
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Internet Crimes Against Children task forces work on both child enticement cases and child pornography cases, and the latter are becoming increasingly important. Albemarle Detective Chuck Marshall tells me when we begin to talk about ICAC that “at any given time there could be 40, 50, 60 people just in Charlottesville based on their IP […]
Last week, a baffling conflict unfolded about the Landmark Hotel, the nine-story construction project on the Downtown Mall at 200 E. Main St.
Tired of waiting for Albemarle County planning staff to approve his site plan, Richard Spurzem appealed to a higher power: the Albemarle County Circuit Court.
Even though the UVA football team has played relatively well at home this season, going 4-2, Scott Stadium has appeared somewhat empty.
Before a group of UVA students became interested in developing an alternative for leftover food from the Observatory Hill dining hall, uneaten mac and cheese or wilted salad was ending up in the garbage can. But that was then. On November 11, UVA kicked off the first of perhaps many trips to Panorama Pay-Dirt in […]