Charlottesville residents living near the University of Virginia raised concerns about unruly students before the Charlottesville City Council at a community forum Thursday. At the same time, UVa students in attendance voiced an intent to achieve a more peaceful coexistence with their neighbors. The Our Town series was established in ...

With only about five weeks before the Wegmans at 5th Street Station opens, workers are moving equipment and dry goods into the store and company personnel met privately Wednesday with local officials and community organizations. The meeting at the nearly completed store between Fifth and Avon streets was part of ...

The Albemarle County Planning Commission received an update on the Rio+29 Small Area Plan at a meeting Tuesday. The Rio+29 Small Area Plan aims to guide development and transportation in the area near the new Rio Road intersection at U.S. 29 in more detail than is in ...

Ever wonder why Virginia’s vaunted flagship university gets such paltry state funding? To the filmmakers of Starving the Beast, that’s an ideological decision.   The documentary, produced by Violet Crown owner Bill Banowsky, connects the dots between a movement to cut funding in public universities that started around Ronald ...

As Charlottesville continues to grapple with its Civil War history and the statue of General Robert E. Lee on his trusty steed, for a while at the Cville Pride Festival September 17 in Lee Park, Traveler sported a multicolored boa in a bit of ironic subversion.   Until someone called the ...

As Virginia’s tobacco industry wanes, the food and wine sector builds momentum. With more than 80 cheesemakers in the state, an intense focus on sustainability at farms such as Polyface, Free Union Grass, Radical Roots and Wolf Creek, and a large, passionate beverage industry, the state is poised to ...

The Charlottesville area has always been shaped by immigrants, and we have a long tradition of recognizing them for it. French-born Claudius Crozet, who served as an engineer in Napoleon’s army, constructed the first railroad from Charlottesville to Richmond in 1851. He then blasted a railway tunnel straight through ...

Average SAT scores from Virginia public schools continue to be higher than national averages, and scores from the Charlottesville area continued to be higher than both.   The College Board, a nonprofit organization that owns the SAT, released the average SAT scores for 2016 high school graduates on Tuesday, showing some ...

This year’s Virginia Film Festival will bring in more than 120 film screenings and a long list of special guests led by Liv Ullmann, Werner Herzog and Virginia-born Shirley MacLaine.   One of this year’s main events, the Opening Night Film, will remain a surprise until Thursday, when Gov ...

Residents in public housing may soon be getting an opportunity to participate in conversations about the redevelopment of Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority sites, including Crescent Halls.   After what some saw as an emergency situation at Crescent Halls was finally resolved earlier this month with repairs to the building’s ...

More than 400 K-12 educators from across the state met at the University of Virginia on Monday for a daylong conference focusing on how to implement new and innovative learning assessments into the state's public schools.   The Virginia Department of Education and Jobs for the Future, a national education ...

The debate over whether the city should relocate its two monuments to Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson continued Thursday, as the commission charged with exploring the option held its second community forum.   After the majority of speakers during the first of two public comment periods at ...

Charlottesville City Council has solidified new rules for public speakers at council meetings, implementing a lottery system that encourages the public to sign up for slots in advance.   Monday’s 4-1 vote in favor of the new procedures came on the heels of a six-month trial period where those wishing ...

In the ongoing melodrama between the city and Charlottesville Parking Center owner Mark Brown, a letter from City Manager Maurice Jones says there’s no way the city will sell its Water Street Parking Garage shares to or even work with Brown, who, perhaps not coincidentally, announced plans to sell ...

For minority- and women-owned businesses to make it, they need to become a critical part of the “value chain” of the businesses they are trying to work with, said Bill Cooper, director of diversity strategies for Atlantic Constructors.   Cooper was the keynote speaker at Tuesday’s Charlottesville Regional Chamber of ...

On Monday, the Charlottesville City Council unanimously agreed to begin developing an open data policy aimed at promoting transparency and community engagement in municipal government. The council approved a resolution that directs city staff to develop procedures for making government datasets available online in “machine-readable” formats. By definition, open data ...

Four years after deciding to not institute any kind of deer population control measure, the Charlottesville City Council is revisiting the issue due to concerns about the growing number of deer, dead or alive, being reported on roads and neighborhoods in the city.   Following advice from a deer management expert ...

After calls from some for Charlottesville to remove its statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from Lee Park, the city formed the Blue Ribbon Commission on Race, Memorials and Public Spaces to explore what should be done with the Lee statue, as well as one of fellow Confederate Gen ...

As some buildings in Charlottesville are torn down to make way for new ones, a number of residents are wondering whether two of the city’s most prominent historical statues also will come down.   Many also are thinking about what can be built up in the city to either replace ...

Six months ago, fervor swept over the community on a cool, early spring morning when dozens of people met in Lee Park for a gathering that’s been described by some as one of Charlottesville’s most divisive moments.   But history may not remember that meeting and its ultimate outcome ...

More than 80 percent of all public schools in Virginia are fully accredited this year, an improvement from last year’s accreditation ratings, according to data released Wednesday by the Virginia Department of Education.   Charlottesville City Schools saw a decrease in the number of fully accredited schools compared to last ...

Just a day before Charlottesville investor Mark Brown announced his intention to sell the Main Street Arena, Charlottesville City Hall challenged Brown to either give up his stake in the Water Street Parking Garage or take another gamble in court.   In a Sept. 12 letter to Dave Norris, general manager ...

Soon, you’ll be able to sidle up to one of the 45 bar stools at the Random Row Brewing Co. on Preston Avenue and say, “Bartender, I’ll have a random row, please.”   The bartender will choose four different beers for you—a “random row”—but those beers have ...

The Main Street Arena property was put on the market for $6.5 million on Tuesday morning, according to Bob Kahn Realty & Investment’s website.   Its owner, Mark Brown, has been locked in a legal dispute with the city of Charlottesville over rates at the Water Street Parking Garage. Brown ...

Since 2001, Computers4Kids has helped disadvantaged young people in Charlottesville and Albemarle County experience the thrill of creating things with technology. Many of those “kids” are now successful adults. “I feel like a proud parent,” said C4K’s executive director, Kala Somerville. “I’m a big believer in the ‘it ...