Attorneys with the Legal Aid Justice Center have reached a proposed settlement with the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority that may could be worth upwards of $500,000 in cash and relief to public housing tenants. A federal class action suit filed last year claimed that the CRHA failed to provide adequate utility allowances to its […]
Attorneys with the Legal Aid Justice Center have reached a proposed settlement with the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority that may could be worth upwards of $500,000 in cash and relief to public housing tenants. A federal class action suit filed last year claimed that the CRHA failed to provide adequate utility allowances to its […]
Charlottesville’s Office of Human Rights is open for business. Four months after the City Council ended a two-year fight over whether to tackle discrimination complaints with its own local rules and enforcement, administrators hired Zan Tewksbury, an Albemarle High School graduate who has worked as a civil rights attorney in Portland for 16 years, to […]
Check c-ville.com daily and pick up a copy of the paper Wednesday for the latest Charlottesville and Albemarle news. Auditors find errors in Circuit Court Clerks’ offices State officials are again reporting costly internal errors in the Albemarle County Circuit Court Clerk’s Office, according to a report in The Daily Progress. A state audit reveals that between […]
Dan Catalano’s political opinion column, Odd Dominion, runs every other week in C-Ville. Sometimes that means he has to write ahead of the news cycle, as was the case with this week’s column. A few days ago, it was anyone’s guess what the stroke of midnight last night would bring. Sorry, Dan—the news ain’t good. […]
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. Another candidates’ forum for those running for seats on the Albemarle County Board of […]
Ron Cooper is a graduate of the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, and recently relocated to Charlottesville to practice law. Twice a month, Cooper will sit in on city and county court cases, drawing on local experts’ input and his own legal background to bring you C-VILLE’s new legal page, Court […]
After a dozen years of planning, VDOT has awarded Nelson County $750,000 to begin restoring what was once the world’s greatest railroad engineering effort: The Claudius Crozet Blue Ridge Tunnel. “When it was built, it was the longest tunnel in the nation, and the longest mountain tunnel in the world,” said Allen Hale, a Nelson […]
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 Piedmont Group of the Sierra Club is hosting sponsoring a forum for the […]
Saturday, September 21 is recognized the world over as the International Day of Peace. It’s also the day a longtime local activist group dedicated to that very pursuit is celebrating a major milestone. The Charlottesville Center of Peace and Justice marks its 30th birthday Saturday night with a 5 p.m. birthday party-cum-peace potluck at Westminster […]
Early this year, Ryan DeRose started bugging my editor, Giles Morris, about a story in The New York Times. Like us, the founder of the local digital agency Vibethink had been dazzled by Snow Fall, a multimedia interactive feature on a deadly 2012 Oregon avalanche that won the Times a Pulitzer this year. What Snow […]