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 […]
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 […]
Although you might not know it from the media coverage, there is actually a statewide race currently underway that doesn’t involve Ken Cuccinelli’s ethical fungibility, Terry McAuliffe’s used-car-salesman smile, or Bishop E.W. Jackson’s endlessly entertaining series of outrageous statements. But with those characters sucking up all of the available political oxygen, you could be forgiven […]
Check c-ville.com daily and pick up a copy of the paper Tuesday for the latest Charlottesville and Albemarle news briefs and stories. Plans for Stonefield Costco move forward Developers of The Shops at Stonefield are one step closer to bringing Charlottesville its first Costco. In a 4-2 vote last week, the Albemarle County Board of […]
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. Charlottesville’s City Council holds its second regular meeting of the month at 7pm Monday, […]
The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnerships Program, two grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), are drops in the bucket when it comes to the city’s housing budget. But like other federal funds, they’re drying up at a time when the city’s affordable housing crisis is a […]
On Friday, hundreds will fill a ballroom at the DoubleTree Hotel on Route 29 for the Albemarle Charlottesville NAACP’s 2013 Freedom Fund Banquet. This year, UVA President Teresa Sullivan headlines the event, which is the chapter’s most important fundraiser. We sat down with chapter president Dr. M. Rick Turner to talk about the choice of […]
Check c-ville.com daily and pick up a copy of the paper Tuesday for the latest Charlottesville and Albemarle news briefs and stories. Here’s a quick look at what we’ve got our eye on this week. City hires new human rights chief The City of Charlottesville has hired a veteran civil rights attorney to lead its […]
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 Charlottesville Planning Commission meets from 6-8pm Tuesday, September 10 in City Council Chambers […]
The Odd Dominion is a regular Virginia political opinion column from C-VILLE contributor Dan Catalano. If there’s one thing that every political junkie in the Commonwealth knows, it is this: Whichever party currently holds the White House will never see the inside of Virginia’s Executive Mansion. This has been the case, without fail, since 1977, […]