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I'm Charlottesville Tomorrow's managing editor and health and safety reporter. If there’s something you think we should be investigating, please email me at jhiggins@cvilletomorrow.org! And you can follow all the work we do by subscribing to our free newsletter! Hablo español, y quiero mantener a la comunidad hispanohablante informada. Si tienes preguntas o información que debo saber, por favor, envíame un correo electrónico a jhiggins@cvilletomorrow.org.
Posted inFrom the newsroom
Our #Charlottesville: How Charlottesville Tomorrow is covering the fifth anniversary of Unite the Right
Five years after the “summer of hate,” we’re telling our community’s own stories.
Posted inHealth and safety
Parents rush to get their toddlers vaccinated as first doses of pediatric COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Charlottesville
The long awaited approval of a COVID-19 vaccine for young children comes as a relief to many parents, especially as more young children are becoming sick with the newer variants of COVID-19.
Posted inHow we learn
Virginia just made its biggest investment in school buildings in over a decade. Now, it has to decide how to dole out the money.
Charlottesville City Council will apply for funding. It has budgeted to rebuild Buford Middle School but hasn’t yet budgeted for the overhaul of Walker Elementary.
Posted inHealth and safety
We’re at the start of another COVID-19 surge — but this time, health officials expect hospitalizations will be low
“I’d like to say that, along with this lovely spring that we are having, this is part of a new beginning. But, we have been fooled before so we’ll just have to wait and see,” said Dr. Reid Adams, UVA Health’s chief medical officer.
Posted inHow we learn
City Council supports the much-needed Buford Middle School rebuild, but must raise taxes or delay other projects to do it
It’s possible to fund the school renovations without raising taxes — but that could mean postponing things like sidewalk repairs, road paving, and new affordable housing projects.
Posted inHealth and safety
PVCC has more nursing students than ever — but can’t find enough nurses to train them
“It’s a conundrum,” said Nicole Winkler, the dean of Health and Life Sciences at Piedmont Virginia Community College. “It’s a quagmire. I don’t know how else to describe it.”
Posted inOur neighborhoods
City plans to hire an engineering firm to find ways to make ‘race track’ Fifth Street safer
There have been four fatal crashes in less than two years along a mile-long stretch of Fifth Street Southwest. But making the road safer isn’t as simple as reducing the speed limit.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions, How we learn
House committee’s rejection of local sales tax bill could throw Charlottesville’s Buford Middle School reconfiguration project into jeopardy
A subcommittee in the General Assembly killed three House bills Friday that could help fund Charlottesville’s school reconfiguration project. Delegates will get a second chance to approve similar bills later this month.
Posted inHealth and safety
Local schools will not follow new CDC shortened quarantine guidelines, as COVID-19 cases reach new high
The Blue Ridge Health District will host a town hall to answer your questions this week. A Tuesday evening townhall was postponed due to power outages.
