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Albemarle finds school bus seats for hundreds of students, though more continue waiting
More Albemarle students have bus seats, but Albemarle County Public Schools isn’t out of the woods quite yet. The district started off the school year with about 1,000 kids in various parts of the county without assigned buses. Three weeks later, that number is down to 275, Rosalyn Schmitt, chief operating officer for Albemarle schools, said at Thursday’s School Board meeting.
Want to see a massive community garden with free produce in Booker T. Washington Park? City Council hears about it Monday
Urban farmers can do a lot with a little bit of land. For example, a garden the size of a standard elevator — about 20 square feet — can yield more than 100 pounds of sweet potatoes in a single season, said Richard Morris, an experienced urban farmer and former co-executive director of Cultivate Charlottesville.
Voter Guide: Q&As with the three candidates for Charlottesville City Council
Two incumbents and one newcomer are running for the three available seats on Charlottesville’s City Council. This year, there are three seats available and three candidates certified by the Virginia Department of Elections. Incumbents Michael Payne and Lloyd Snook won the Democratic primary election, along with Natalie Oschrin. No...
Voter Guide: Q&A with the only candidate for Albemarle County Clerk of Circuit Court
In Virginia, clerks of Circuit Court are elected for eight-year terms and have a range of duties, including making sure the public has access to Circuit Court systems. Jon R. Zug is the incumbent and is running unopposed for the office of Clerk of Circuit Court for Albemarle County. Zug...
Charlottesville City Schools teachers clash over new cellphone ban
It all started with a knock on the door. Andy Josselyn was teaching his afternoon English class when one of his students from a previous period knocked. Before he could ask what was up, the student pushed past him, made a beeline for another student and began fighting. Josselyn quickly tried to intercept, which is protocol for teachers, and then it happened. The punch.
Charlottesville Tomorrow reporter Tamica Jean-Charles wins national fellowship for education reporting
I am happy to announce that I have won a place in the Education Writers Association Reporting Fellowship’s 16th class! I am one of nine journalists from around the country who are taking on ambitious projects to deepen our reporting. My project over the next six months will focus on the academic success of students in Charlottesville City Schools.
City Schools is working to take over its bus system from Charlottesville Area Transit as the driver shortage persists
Hundreds of Charlottesville City Schools students and their families are having to figure out how to get to school as the school system enters another year with limited bus drivers. As the school year began last week, 723 kids had yet to receive a bus assignment. That number grew in...
After dodging questions for more than a year, Midway Manor owners confirms affordability and that renovations are starting
Earlier this summer, Charlottesville Tomorrow published a story about how residents and city officials had struggled — mostly in vain — for more than a year to get the owners of Midway Manor to tell them when they planned to begin promised reconstruction or if they intended to continue offering government subsidized housing.
Charlottesville shares updated draft zoning ordinance. It’s 400 pages long.
An updated draft zoning ordinance has been released to the public for review. It’s more than 400 pages long. Tuesday evening, Cville Plans Together posted the updated draft ordinance, as well as a slew of related documents, to its website. There’s the updated draft itself, as well as a...
Just weeks before the school year begins, 1,000 Albemarle County children are booted from bus routes
Weeks before the first day of school, Lysnie Steele received an email from Albemarle County Public Schools. “Despite our ongoing improvement efforts, we regret that we will be unable to provide bus transportation to every student in our school system who needs it,” the note said. Her children were among those who would not get a bus.
Planning Commission recommends Cherry Avenue development to City Council
During a nearly seven-hour meeting Tuesday night, the Charlottesville Planning Commission voted to recommend the proposal for new buildings on Cherry Avenue to City Council. In the coming months, the Council will hold a public hearing and vote, but the dates have not yet been set. Woodard Properties is proposing...
After six years of work, Charlottesville’s proposed new zoning ordinance is about to be reviewed by the Planning Commission
After years of work, the city is taking the last few steps toward adopting a new zoning ordinance. Monday night, City Council unanimously voted to send a draft of the new zoning ordinance to the Planning Commission. This marks “the formal initiation of the review process,” said James Freas, Director of Neighborhood Development Services.
A proposal for a grocery store and an apartment building on Cherry Avenue is back before the Planning Commission
A plan to reintroduce a grocery store — and build apartment-style homes — in Charlottesville’s Fifeville neighborhood is back on the Planning Commission agenda this week. On Tuesday, August 8 at 5:30 p.m., the commission will have a public hearing for a rezoning application and special use...
Dairy Market neighbors mobilize to have their say in the development of more large, mixed-use buildings that most of them can’t afford to live in
When Stony Point Development Group sent its notice of a community meeting to the city of Charlottesville, the group planned to show drawings of what the developers envisioned for the lots adjacent to the Dairy Market on 10th Street NW and Grady Avenue. On July 25, about 10 people from...
Telling our stories at Soul of Cville
Join Charlottesville Inclusive Media at Soul of Cville 2023 for a conversation about why we need to tell our own stories. Charles Lewis, co-host of In My Humble Opinion, and Sarad Davenport, Chief Operation Officer of Vinegar Hill Magazine, will be joined by storyteller Charley Burton and photographer Marley Nichelle to talk about First Person Charlottesville and the power of telling our truths.
Renaming History: A conversation about the names we give our institutions
In the past few years, several southern cities are moving forward from their racist histories in part by examining the namesakes of their institutions. In Charlottesville, it’s personal. Many of the descendants of those who suffered injustices from slavery to segregation live here, as do the descendants of those for whom our public schools, roads and buildings are named. How do we move forward together?
Four Albemarle schools might keep their names, yet the fate of two other schools remains uncertain
The names of Albemarle County Public School’s Agnor-Hurt Elementary School and Walton Middle School could change if the school board votes to put the schools through a name review process. At the July 13 School Board meeting, Albemarle School staff presented research into six county schools. The staff recommended...
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