Charlottesville wouldn’t be Charlottesville without its trees. When the city adopted a Tree Conservation Ordinance in 2013 to allow special protected status for certain trees, it was an acknowledgment of all their many benefits: beauty, history, a sense of place, and all the “ecosystem services” that trees provide for free. They cool the air and […]
Charlottesville wouldn’t be Charlottesville without its trees. When the city adopted a Tree Conservation Ordinance in 2013 to allow special protected status for certain trees, it was an acknowledgment of all their many benefits: beauty, history, a sense of place, and all the “ecosystem services” that trees provide for free. They cool the air and […]
In 2009, Dr. Latham Murray of Earlysville passed away at age 59 at his childhood home, Panorama Farms. His family decided to take care of the funeral themselves, building him a homemade coffin and burying him in their family cemetery. Without knowing it, they had given him a natural burial, free of toxic embalming chemicals, […]
Charlottesville’s Police Civilian Review Board continues to disagree with city officials over how much power it should wield. Shortly after August 2017, in response to demands for increased oversight of law enforcement, City Council committed to the creation of a Police Civilian Review Board, a body that would give area residents some checks on the […]
“Speed is of the essence” This week, eight former members of Charlottesville’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Race, Memorials, and Public Spaces released a letter urging the city to immediately shroud the downtown statues of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, and to take steps to ensure that the monuments are permanently removed from […]
C-VILLE Weekly took home 12 Virginia Press Association awards in 2020’s News and Advertising Contest (full results here). We offer hearty congratulations to the other publications in our competition group, and, most importantly, we express our deepest gratitude to the people who shared their stories with us over the last year. News C-VILLE’s coverage of […]
You know that when we say 10 feet or less, we really mean 10 feet or less The truck-eating bridge on the Corner has dispatched 15 trucks since the beginning of 2019, according to CBS19 meteorologist and dedicated truck-tracker Travis Koshko. You’d think the drivers would learn, but they never do: Like clockwork, delivery after […]
Gilling it Former UVA basketball standout Anthony Gill didn’t make the NBA right off the bat. The forward earned 2015 and 2016 Third-Team all-ACC honors in his junior and senior seasons under Tony Bennett, but went undrafted after graduating. Gill headed abroad, and spent a season playing for Yesilgiresun Belediye in Turkey, and three years […]
It’s been over a year since the coronavirus forced local schools to shut their doors and teach thousands of students online. Thanks to a significant drop in COVID cases and the arrival of the vaccine, many students and teachers have returned to the classroom, with health and safety precautions in place. Some students, however, continue […]
If you’ve voted in more than a few elections, there’s a chance you’ve cast a ballot for a candidate you didn’t particularly like. Maybe you would have voted for someone else, but you knew that candidate didn’t have enough party support to win the race, and you didn’t want to “throw away” your vote. Under […]
I scoop up a quart of dark pond water and debris in my cloth net. As the muck drains, my partner Claire sticks her hand into the mess. She grabs a glob of mud the size, shape, and color of a miniature York peppermint patty—except it’s wiggling and has a tail. A bullfrog tadpole! We crow […]