For the past three months, the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority (CRHA) has been trying to fill a new position, director of redevelopment. After running ads regionally and in national publications like The Washington Post, the position is still unfilled. As the search continues, the city and CRHA face what Noah Schwartz, executive director of […]
Three days before Christmas, two Charlottesville groups that provide services to the local homeless population got an early gift: As part of almost $21 million bequeathed to the state by the Bush Administration, both Region Ten and the AIDS/HIV Services Group (ASG) received “continuum of care” funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban […]
Join C-VILLE writer Erika Howsare and Miles Fowler in Second Life for a discussion of this week’s cover story on Thursday, January 10, from 5-6pm. To attend, register and create an avatar at secondlife.com or simply log in to Second Life on your home computer. Use the “Search” option to locate the group named “Charlottesvilleans […]
Governor Timothy M. Kaine will propose legislation with the start of tomorrow’s General Assembly for a statewide ban on smoking in restaurants…
On January 7, Albemarle County police released video footage from the dashboard camera of Officer Greg Davis that shows Davis hitting local painter Gerry Mitchell as he was crossing W. Main Street.
Demeter and Kore—or at least two 2,500-year-old sculptures of those two Greek goddesses—are to return to Italy after a stint at the University of Virginia Art Museum…
George Bailey, former Albemarle County sheriff, died January 4 at the age of 80, The Daily Progress reports today.
Tom Perriello and Dave Shreve, in competition with one another as democratic candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, arrived in Danville with a unified message: Goode better get while the getting is good.
The UVA men’s basketball team fell hard in their last non-ACC contest of the season on Thursday, the Daily Progress reports.
The local Drought Warning has been lifted, according to a press release [pdf] issued yesterday by the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA).