Was UVA justified in forcefully clearing pro-Palestine encampment?
After weeks of trying to explain his reasons for calling in State Troopers in riot gear to clear pro-Palestine protest, hundreds of faculty and students remained outraged by President Jim Ryan’s decision.
Charlottesville Police Department releases 2023 annual report
Homicides went up, while overall crimes against individuals went down.
Teacher retention, stability top priorities for Charlottesville High School’s new principal
Current Jackson-Via Elementary School Principal Justin Malone will lead the high school starting July 1.
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City Schools budget has gone up this year, but not as much as Board members hoped
“We had to make some tough decisions,” said Lisa Larson-Torres, chair of the Charlottesville City School Board.
Charlottesville Tomorrow wins four 2023 Virginia Press Association awards, including two first place awards for feature writing
Reporters Tamica Jean-Charles and Erin O’Hare took home first place awards for their reporting on how Charlottesville is working through conversations about race.
Reporter Erin O’Hare featured at CreativeMornings this week
On Friday, O’Hare will speak about how she remembers that Charlottesville is ‘vibrant’ — even though she often reports on its problems.
After closing in March, Head Start center’s board disagrees on how to move forward
The board chair wants to apply for grants to expand the program. The board finance director says the organization is not ready.
The Big Stories
After days of peaceful student protest, UVA president said ‘it became necessary to rely on assistance from the Virginia State Police’ to clear an encampment
UVA President Ryan and Police Chief Longo are streaming a ‘town hall’ to explain why the operation to clear the encampment got so large.
It was once his family’s farm — the largest Black-owned farm in Albemarle County — but now we all own part of it
Philip Cobbs tells the story of his birthplace, and why we should all know its history.
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Fifeville residents got a say in a private developer’s plans by making an unusual agreement
The resulting project is designed to give low income residents jobs, services and affordable housing. And the developer will earn “much less” profit because of it.
Charlottesville Tomorrow is hiring its next managing editor
The central Virginia nonprofit seeks a newsroom leader with strong editing experience and a heart for community and local news.
The MacArthur Foundation announces support for Charlottesville Tomorrow as part of Press Forward
Eight newsrooms are the first to be funded by a new coalition that seeks to grow local news.
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How one family owned and ran the largest Black-owned farm in Albemarle County — for generations
Philip Cobbs tells the story of his family’s land, and the remarkable ancestors who were determined that their legacy would be equality.
Learn more about the Albemarle County farm at Buck Island with Philip Cobbs
Cobbs will present his work to uncover his family’s history on April 23 at the Northside Library on Rio Road.
More news
A dayslong pro-Palestine protest on UVA Grounds shows no sign of stopping
The protesters will be allowed to stay, so long as university policies are followed: No structures, no holes in the ground, and no attaching signs to objects or trees.
They lived through the 2017 white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville — and say comparisons to pro-Palestinian campus protests are unfair
Trump’s claims are ‘political theater,’ says Rabbi Tom Gutherz of Congregation Beth Israel.
A seasonal shelter in Charlottesville is serving more people than ever — which presents challenges now that it’s closed
The City is working on a longer term plan, but shelter staff say they see more immediate need than ever.
Albemarle County School Board to vote on collective bargaining resolution at Thursday night’s meeting
The vote comes after two and a half years of campaigning for collective bargaining from the Albemarle Education Association.
Charlottesville area’s only free Head Start program closed suddenly, leaving nearly 200 families without childcare
The decision was in the making since October, but parents weren’t notified until March 5.
Come July 1, Agnor-Hurt Elementary School will be Agnor Elementary School
Benjamin Franklin Hurt was a former Albemarle County Public Schools administrator who supported performances with students in blackface, Confederate flags and swastikas.
Here’s everything you need to know about running for local office in Virginia
We help you navigate the multiple deadlines, stacks of forms and varied instructions to become a candidate.
If you’re heading to a City Schools sporting event next fall, expect to walk through a metal detector
After some debate among students, staff and community members about whether to put metal detectors in schools, the School Board decided to use them exclusively at sporting events and other out-of-school activities.
In a scathing rebuttal, Charlottesville attorneys say plaintiffs ‘concocted technical faults’ in their lawsuit seeking to overthrow the new zoning ordinance
“The Plaintiffs already have that which they now seek to deny others — good, affordable housing in a desirable locality,” the city wrote. “To do so, the Plaintiffs, having lost at City Council and at the ballot box, seek a judicial veto of the City’s zoning ordinance changes.”
More than 1,000 gather to press county supervisors to invest — heavily — in affordable housing
“For people of all ages to have a stake, to have a place to rent or to own, is absolutely astonishingly challenging,” County Supervisor Ann Mallek said. “Albemarle County needs to up our game.”
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