Bellamy: Clerical error over traffic ticket landed him in court

Wes Bellamy, the 26-year-old teacher who recently announced a run for City Council, told reporters and onlookers at a press conference outside City Hall this afternoon that a clerical error following a traffic violation led him to turn himself into police this morning. Bellamy said he was pulled over in February for a traffic violation—driving […]

Businesses respond to Terry McAuliffe’s campaign visit

When Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe visited Charlottesville last Wednesday, he meandered up and down the Downtown Mall with Delegate David Toscano, discussing the economy and promising to prioritize small businesses if elected. McAuliffe said he’s running on a platform of job creation and economic development, and wants to appeal to the entire political spectrum […]

Face time: Author Jonathan Coleman visits Jim Baldi in jail

There he was, much as I remembered him: the same mischievous, knowing, somewhat furtive look, jaunty and clean-cut as ever; even the erudite black glasses were not that much of a surprise. He is nearly 50 now, but still incorrigibly youthful, and, despite all that he is up against, hopeful, hopeful for “one more day.” […]

School spending, Stonefield suit, and City races: News briefs

Check c-ville.com daily and pick up a copy of the paper Tuesday to for the latest Charlottesville and Albemarle news briefs and stories. Here’s a quick look at some of what we’ve had an eye on for the past week. County schools face budget gap The Albemarle County School District is facing a $1.2 million […]

Saturday shooting instigated by Elks Lodge fight, warrants show

New details about the Downtown shooting that sent two men to the hospital early Saturday morning—one with a bullet in his abdomen that police believe came from an officer’s gun—were revealed yesterday in search warrants filed in Charlottesville Circuit Court. According to the warrants, Frank D. Brown, 56, of Albemarle, and Leon T. Brock, 22, […]

HUD report criticizes foundering, divided housing authority

The Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority (CRHA) got a thrashing last week with the release of a highly critical report on its operations by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and since then, parties on all sides of the debate over how to fix public housing in the city have been leveraging […]

City homelessness survey highlights a common cause

Over the course of two days in late January, teams of volunteers filed into shelters in communities around the country to conduct a massive point-in-time survey on homelessness, including here in Charlottesville. The results of the survey of about 130 locals have just been released. The data doesn’t offer a complete picture of the homeless […]