Check c-ville.com daily and pick up a copy of the paper Wednesdays for the latest Charlottesville and Albemarle news briefs and stories. Here’s a quick look at some of what we’re following. Farewell, Edgar Bronfman Sr. Billionaire philanthropist Edgar M. Bronfman Sr., who owned a farm in Albemarle County for decades, died on Saturday, December […]
Check c-ville.com daily and pick up a copy of the paper Wednesdays for the latest Charlottesville and Albemarle news briefs and stories. Here’s a quick look at some of what we’re following. Farewell, Edgar Bronfman Sr. Billionaire philanthropist Edgar M. Bronfman Sr., who owned a farm in Albemarle County for decades, died on Saturday, December […]
Each week, the news team takes a look at upcoming meetings and events in Charlottesville and Albemarle we think you should know about. Consider it a look into our datebook, and be sure to share newsworthy happenings in the comments section. The Albemarle County Historic Preservation Committee meets from 4:30-5:30pm Monday, December 23 in Conference Room […]
Louis Schultz has twice been handcuffed and once pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct as part of a crusade to keep city employees off the tiny private road his Woolen Mills property borders. Now he’s again needling the city to address what he says is a creeping effort at a land grab, arguing that what’s happening […]
The man known as the “graduation day rapist” has quietly changed his name, a move that prosecutors and victims rights advocates fear could help a dangerous predator conceal his violent past. On October 28, Buckingham County Circuit Court judge Kimberly S. White approved a second petition by Jeffrey Theodore Kitze to become legally known as […]
Seven months after a fake ID sting turned Rugby Road into a paramilitary zone, complete with armored vehicles and SWAT-attired agents, the three defendants who pleaded guilty to charges relating to the creation and distribution of at least 20,000 fake IDs were sentenced in federal court on Monday, December 16. The admitted “mastermind” of the […]
Check c-ville.com daily and pick up a copy of the paper Wednesdays for the latest Charlottesville and Albemarle news briefs and stories. Here’s a quick look at some of what we’re following. Bypass could change paths In an effort to avoid the historic cemetery threatened by the Western Bypass, VDOT is eyeing the Ivy Ridge […]
Each week, the news team takes a look at upcoming meetings and events in Charlottesville and Albemarle we think you should know about. Consider it a look into our datebook, and be sure to share newsworthy happenings in the comments section. The Jefferson-Madison Regional Library Board of Trustees will hold a public input meeting on […]
Three days after the body of 18-year-old Lynchburg teen Jamisha Gilbert was discovered, the families and friends of nine missing or murdered young people from Central Virginia came together on Saturday, December 7, to issue a call for community action. “This is not right!” exclaimed Ronald “B.B.” Shavers, head of the Lynchburg-based nonprofit youth group […]
Check c-ville.com daily and pick up a copy of the paper Wednesdays for the latest Charlottesville and Albemarle news briefs and stories. Here’s a quick look at some of what we’re following. Statewide mental health initiatives announced in wake of Deeds tragedy Three weeks after the son of State Senator Creigh Deeds stabbed his father […]
High-profile acts of violence tend to bring with them a spike in public awareness of mental illness, but the stigma associated with being mentally ill never subsides. The system still seems to favor locking people up rather than treating them. My wife and I lived five minutes away from the Safeway in Tucson, Arizona, where […]