The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday approved an ordinance that sets a series of requirements that farm wineries, breweries and distilleries must meet in order to host weddings. The new regulations govern on-site production, traffic and setbacks, as well as the hours that establishments may have outdoor amplified music at weddings. The board […]
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CATEC board cuts administrator with funding request approval
The Charlottesville Albemarle Technical Education Center will lose one of its four administrators next year, following the center board’s approval of a $2.3 million funding request Tuesday night. It adds an instructor and an instructional assistant, raises staff salaries by an average of 2 percent and eliminates the strategic planning officer position. CATEC Strategic Planning […]
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With $2M from city, schools expect balanced funding request
Charlottesville City Schools officials expect to present a balanced funding request for the next fiscal year thanks to a projected $2 million funding increase from the city. Schools Budget Director Kim Powell told the Charlottesville School Board at a Saturday budget work session at Walker Upper Elementary that she learned of the funding increase in […]
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Despite funding challenges, Albemarle School Board prioritizes teacher pay
Since 2011, the Albemarle County Public Schools have spent $10.8 million on raises for teachers and school staff. The division did not give teachers raises in the school years beginning in 2009 and 2010, documents showed, but spent $6.8 million on raises between 2007 and 2009. Documents presented to the School Board on Thursday showed that […]
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Tom Tom Founders Festival announces 2017 programming, speakers
The Tom Tom Founders Festival on Thursday announced its 2017 schedule, a new partnership, a number of national keynote speakers for its weeklong spring festivities and the addition of the Hometown Summit programming schedule. At a news conference at the Old Metropolitan Hall on the Downtown Mall, festival director Paul Beyer said this year’s main […]
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As Champion expands, owner relies on team, culture to sustain success
In the next two months, Champion Brewing will expand into a new taproom in Richmond and open a Belgian-style brasserie and brewpub on the Downtown Mall, the latter in partnership with Ten Course Hospitality. The moves will be Champion owner Hunter Smith’s third and fourth breweries, and each will have its own dedicated brewer and […]
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City schools look to expand local offerings in meals
Charlottesville schools officials are looking for ways to expand the proportion of local foods offered in the system’s prepared meals over the course of the next year. The division last spring received a Green Ribbon Schools award from the U.S. Department of Education in part for its use of local produce in lunch menus and […]
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Local resource networks pave way for minority entrepreneurs
This story is part of our #CvilleCurious project. You ask the questions, you vote on the questions you’re most curious about, and we answer. To ask your question, visit the CvilleCurious page. This question came from Marijean Oldham. DeVaughn Anderson’s mobile car-stereo installation business did not get off to a roaring start. After taking some […]
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Contraline opens permanent lab on Harris Street
In a nondescript storefront across from the Habitat Resale Store on Harris Street, a small biomedical engineering firm is hoping to revolutionize male contraception. Contraline, founded by University of Virginia graduate Kevin Eisenfrats and the late Dr. John Herr, a professor of cell biology and biomedical engineering at the university, moved into its first permanent […]
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Poverty, enrollments growing in city schools
Poverty affects minority students in Charlottesville City Schools at more than three times the rate it affects white students, and poverty has grown concurrently with diversity in the division over the last 20 years. In 2015, more than 86 percent of black students in the division and more than 74 percent of other minority students […]
