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Charlottesville Tomorrow wins national support for its Voter Guide
A few months ago, we launched our 2024 Voter Guide by seeking voter feedback. And we are so energized to work with communities across central Virginia. Charlottesville Tomorrow has been producing a voter guide since its founding in 2005. Last year, we expanded to cover 58 local and state races in Charlottesville and 12 central Virginian counties. We saw a huge need for information in rural counties and did our best to fill the holes.
Her downtown art exhibit was vandalized. Here’s why she’s keeping the damage
I’m curious about who is paying attention. Not specifically to the art I created and installed as a part of the Paramount Theater’s Third Street Box Office project, but to our community and our collective history in Charlottesville. How often do we disrupt our daily hustle to the next meeting, to the next dinner, to the next event to be present in the spaces we pass through and the spaces we occupy?
Six months after local Head Start provider closed, its executive director has resigned
Sarah Hanks, executive director the Monticello Area Community Action Agency, has resigned from her position, according to the organization’s website. Hanks’ resignation comes about six months after MACAA decided to surrender its Early Head Start and Head grants to the national Office of Head Start. The resignation occurred at MACAA’s June board meeting, which the Board did not allow members of the public to attend.
Charlottesville Tomorrow’s newest reporter wants to get to know what matters to you
Ana joined us in mid-May and our organization is already feeling the impact of her passionate and thoughtful journalism. Her focus is public health and safety, and she takes a broad view of all the things that impact our well-being. She is a Russian-born and U.S.-made journalist with a master’s...
Local groups are scrambling to find the money to buy Carlton Mobile Home Park before the owner sells it to an unnamed buyer
After Charlottesville Tomorrow published a report in late June about the pending sale of Carlton Mobile Home Park, local groups and residents have mobilized to try to buy the park — and prevent its residents from possibly being displaced. Last month, Carlton Mobile Home Park residents received a letter...
Here’s how to give feedback on the Cville Tool Library — whether you use it or not
The Cville Tool Library wants to know how it can better serve the community. In order to find out, the organization is doing an online survey about its services. The mission of the Cville Tool Library is in its name: It’s a lending library for tools. Anyone who needs, say, a drill or a chainsaw for a home project can become a member of the library and check out a tool. Membership costs are on a sliding scale so that people of various incomes can access the library.
Here’s how to have a say in the future of four public parks in Charlottesville
Throughout the month of July, Charlottesville residents have a few opportunities to tell Parks & Recreation what they’d like to see in some city parks. During a series of input sessions, city staff want to hear about Court Square, Market Street, Benjamin Tonsler, and Booker T. Washington parks. They want to know what people like about these parks, and what could be improved.
Albemarle County Public Schools will have a new elementary school for the first time in 20 years
Albemarle County is expecting an increase in its student population over the next few years, but it doesn’t have enough space for them. The solution? More schools. Albemarle County Public Schools is constructing its 16th elementary school, the first new elementary school in the county in 20 years, near the southern end of the county.
Pools in the city are open, but Charlottesville still needs more lifeguards
After four years of restricting hours, Charlottesville’s Parks and Rec Department says it has hired enough lifeguards to keep the city’s public pools open as usual this summer. But they still need more lifeguards. The three city-run, public pools — Onesty Family Aquatic Center, Washington Park Pool, and...
Carlton Mobile Home Park residents fear losing their homes as news arrives that the park will be sold
Joel Carraseo spent many years turning his family’s trailer into a home. He built solid stairs up to the front door, laid a stone patio, built an awning to cover it, and then added a little picket fence to make sure the family dog, Max, doesn’t run into the street.
Charlottesville School Board extends Superintendent Royal Gurley’s contract for another year
Royal Gurley will serve as the superintendent of Charlottesville CIty Schools until 2028. The Charlottesville City School Board voted unanimously to extend Gurley’s contract through June 30, 2028 at a June 10 School Board meeting. The contract extension comes with a 5% raise, bringing his salary up to $212,399, according to the updated contract.
Here’s where your kids can get free breakfast and lunch this summer
Children 18 years and younger can now get free breakfast and lunches this summer at sites across the commonwealth as a part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Sun Program. Families can check out the Summer Meals for Kids Site Finder on the USDA website to find locations near...
Reporter Tamica Jean-Charles talks ‘the power in identity’ on Saturday radio show
Tamica Jean-Charles started out writing short stories as a kid. But it wasn’t until she discovered journalism that she realized she could use her passion for storytelling to help those around her. United Way of Greater Charlottesville featured Jean-Charles on Envision Radio, where she spoke about her journey in...
Charlottesville denies that sharing a lawyer with the Police Civilian Oversight Board is an issue
The City of Charlottesville denies that one of its new attorneys had a conflict of interest because she already represented the city’s Police Civilian Oversight Board. The Board’s chair, Bill Mendez, said last week he believes this to be the case. The Board is changing firms to ensure independent counsel going forward, he said.
Local agencies shock Charlottesville City Council members with latest data on the number of folks experiencing homelessness
Charlottesville City Councilor’s faces were stoic Monday afternoon as representatives from local homeless service agencies presented a startling update on the state of homelessness in the area. The news wasn’t good: On any given day, their best estimates are that around 200 people in the community are experiencing homelessness,...
Does your child qualify for free or reduced lunch? A new federal program promises $120 in extra summer grocery money
Sometime this summer, an unspecified number of low income families with school aged children will be eligible for free grocery money. The money will come from a new pilot program called Sun Bucks that’s administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and it promises an extra $120 per child for any eligible families with school-aged children.
We know we’re stating the obvious here, but… it’s hot
Temperatures in central Virginia are expected to reach into the high 90s this week, but with the heat index, it could feel even hotter. Here are a few places in the area are opening cooling centers for anyone who needs a place to cool off. Charlottesville City. Herman Key Jr....
The Charlottesville City School Board will vote on extending the superintendent’s contract Monday night
The Charlottesville City School Board will vote Monday evening on whether or not to extend Superintendent Royal Gurley’s contract until June 30, 2028. A yes vote would extend Gurley’s current contract for another year. It would also give the superintendent a 5% raise in his yearly salary, bringing it to nearly $209,000.
A lawyer representing the police oversight board was unable to be ‘a zealous advocate’ while the board struggled for access to police records — because that attorney was also representing the city
While the Police Civilian Oversight Board was struggling with the city to regain access to police records, the City of Charlottesville hired the Board’s attorney. That means, the Board and the City were represented by the same attorney while the Board was trying to negotiate access to those records, which the Charlottesville Police Department had stopped sharing in October.
Charlottesville Tomorrow wins breaking news award from the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists
For most newsrooms, housing insecurity isn’t usually the most popular topic to read about online. But Charlottesville Tomorrow’s coverage of people struggling to find shelter was among our most read reporting in the last year. Our readers appreciated the quality of the work and the way we represented...
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