While building its flagship facility at the IX Art Park this summer, Three Notch’d Brewing Co. got a boost in a total of $100,000 in grant funding from the state and the city of Charlottesville. In June, Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced that Three Notch’d had been awarded ...

The University of Virginia will host Gov. Terry McAuliffe and numerous transportation experts on Sept. 30 for a discussion about how autonomous vehicles will transform Charlottesville and other small and mid-sized cities. “The Driverless Future: Asking the Big Questions” is being organized by UVa, Charlottesville and the new Virginia Autonomous ...

A panel of Virginia energy industry leaders discussed Virginia’s role in the coming renewable energy revolution on Friday during the inaugural Tom Tom Founder’s Festival Fall Forum. The panel, moderated by Virginia Deputy Secretary of Natural Resources Angela Navarro discussed challenges facing Virginia as solar and wind energy ...

The Tom Tom Founders Festival’s inaugural Fall Forum on Friday will feature two panel discussions on major growth industries in the Charlottesville area: biotechnology and machine learning. Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence that allows computers to learn from data without human intervention. Over the last decade ...

Protesters’ shrouding of the Thomas Jefferson statue last week at the University of Virginia was unsettling and ill-omened. And it wasn’t just the shrouding itself that was the problem; it was all the rhetoric that accompanied it — including signs claiming that Mr. Jefferson was a “racist” and a “rapist ...

Area residents expressed concerns Monday night to the Charlottesville City Council about the independent review of the city’s handling of the Unite the Right rally and other recent events. During a public hearing regarding Aug. 11 and Aug.12, residents said they want someone other than Tim Heaphy, former ...

The black shrouds covering the downtown statues of Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson have been removed by the monuments’ supporters and replaced by city workers five times since they were installed on Aug. 23. But it is unclear if the surreptitious removal of the tarps in ...

For outdoor sports enthusiasts, few things are more exciting than buying new gear. But when that new bike or surfboard arrives at your home, that joy can be dampened by an unforeseen problem: Where are you going to put it? Two Charlottesville-area entrepreneurs are trying to give their customers better ...

David Rhodes had stopped thinking about boycotting the city, but after a recent public exchange with Charlottesville City Councilor Wes Bellamy, the idea came back to him.   As the community continues to work on overcoming the trauma of last month’s ultra-violent white nationalist rally downtown, public arguments about racism ...

Charlottesville launched its parking-space experiment last week, and we all — officials, businesses and customers alike — are wondering how it will turn out. The system now requires payment for downtown on-street parking, a new policy, but at the same time provides one free hour of parking at the Market Street Parking ...

The Albemarle County School Board voted 5-2 on Thursday to surplus the former Yancey Elementary School building and then transfer it to the county, beginning the process of one day reopening the building to the Esmont community. The board and school division staff will draft a letter and memorandum of ...

In their first forum since the Aug. 12 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, the six candidates left running for City Council discussed, among other topics, affordable housing, systemic racism and police accountability. Hosted by the nonprofit Virginia Organizing, a crowd that filled nearly every seat in the council chambers in ...

A new analysis of Central Virginia’s economy projects job growth to continue in the region over the next decade. It also identified an urgent need for education and investment to help the region adapt to transformative economic shifts affecting its major industries. Since the end of the Great Recession ...

The University of Virginia will repay a 1921 pledge from the Klu Klux Klan, university President Teresa A. Sullivan announced Thursday morning. The university will donate an inflation-adjusted amount of $12,500 to the Charlottesville Patient Support Fund to help with medical expenses of those injured during the Aug. 11 ...

Editor’s note: Below is the first editorial published by The Daily Progress, on Sept. 14, 1892. Our primary purpose then remains our primary purpose today: to tell the stories of our city, county, region and state in a fair manner, as comprehensively as possible, and to advance the progress ...

According to a new national poll conducted in conjunction with the University of Virginia Center for Politics, approximately 60 percent of respondents think Confederate monuments should remain in public spaces. Only 26 percent agreed they should all be removed, but 82 percent agreed that all races are equal.  However, after ...

The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors has approved a special-use permit for a University of Virginia indoor golf practice facility. A previous special-use permit had been approved for the UVa Foundation for a facility on the Birdwood Golf Course behind the Birdwood mansion in 2015, but the structure is now ...

Eighty-six percent of schools across Virginia received full accreditation and 65 school divisions statewide were fully accredited in all of their schools, according to the Virginia Department of Education. The school divisions for the city of Charlottesville and the counties of Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa and Orange were among those to ...

With Election Day less than two months away, candidates for the 25th and 58th districts in the Virginia House of Delegates made their case to voters at a Wednesday forum. Del. Steven Landes, R-Weyers Cave, and Democrat Angela Lynn, candidates for the 25th District, went first at the forum, which ...

The swath of flower bouquets and candles that once laid across Fourth Street in remembrance of Heather Heyer has been cleared, and the road was reopened on September 9. The Downtown Mall crossing had been closed since August 12, when the driver of a Dodge Challenger plowed into a crowd ...

One week after issuing a report on the economic contribution of the arts in August, the Piedmont Council for the Arts, which commissioned the study, closed its doors after 38 years. Only months earlier it had renovated space in York Place and hired a new executive director, the latest in ...

A planned public sculpture that would commemorate Charlottesville’s Vinegar Hill neighborhood has thus far failed to raise the private funding needed for its construction. Major funding from city taxpayers also appears unlikely after a discussion by Charlottesville City Council last week failed to reach a verdict on a contribution ...

At a town hall meeting last month, Department of Justice representatives listened as area residents berated Charlottesville officials for not preventing violence at a white nationalist rally and for alleged systemic injustices that have not been adequately addressed for “decades.” After parachuting into Ferguson, Missouri, three years ago, when a ...

Once again, the Dave Matthews Band has stepped up to benefit its hometown community. As everyone surely knows by now, Dave Matthews has organized a free concert with internationally known artists on Sept. 24. A key purpose of the concert is simply to bring some joy back into our lives ...

CFA Institute has awarded a grant of nearly $50,000 to modernize several classrooms at Charlottesville High School.   Kelli Palmer, CFA Institute’s director of corporate citizenship, said the grant marks the start of a strategic community partnership with CHS that has been planned for almost a year.   “This is ...