Josh Mandell graduated from Yale in 2016 and has been recognized by the Virginia Press Association with five awards for education writing, health, science and environmental writing and multimedia reporting.
The Charlottesville Planning Commission has recommended that the City Council increase funding for tree preservation and planting by $75,000. The action came Tuesday during the commission’s review of the capital improvement program for fiscal year 2018. The draft budget reserves $50,000 for urban tree initiatives. Planning Commissioner Jody Lahendro said this amount would not cover […]
Albemarle County hosted a final community meeting Monday to get public input before finishing the first phase of the Rio+29 Small Area Plan. The plan aims to guide development along U.S. 29 between Charlottesville Fashion Square mall and the Rivanna River. The study area contains just 2 percent of the county’s total land, but is […]
Service Dogs of Virginia celebrated a pack of impeccably trained animal companions and the impact they are having on people’s lives at the organization’s annual graduation ceremony on Sunday. The organization trains dogs to provide physical assistance for people in wheelchairs, offer support for children with autism and other psychological disorders, and to alert people […]
Local leaders in diverse fields spoke about building community at a St. Anne’s-Belfield School symposium Saturday. The inaugural Greenway Symposium was organized by a group of St. Anne’s Upper School students inspired by TED talks that they watched and discussed together. The five speakers were invited for the impact they have made on the Charlottesville […]
Several biotechnology companies in the Charlottesville area are working to combat the Zika virus. The CvilleBioHub, a new biotech networking organization, recently hosted a forum on Zika research at Indoor Biotechnologies. Three scientist-entrepreneurs gave presentations on their work to an audience of about 40, most of whom were affiliated with the biotech industry. Zika can […]
A plaza designed to be centerpiece of downtown Crozet could feature wading pools for children, a communal fireplace or a railroad-themed concert stage. At a public meeting of the Downtown Crozet Initiative on Thursday, Crozet residents offered feedback on three design concepts for Crozet Plaza, a 25,000-square-foot civic space at the former site of the […]
A larger percentage of Albemarle County’s new housing in recent years has been contained in a small portion of its total land area, as directed by the county’s Comprehensive Plan. But some local developers believe that county government could do more to let them implement this growth management strategy. Albemarle’s Comprehensive Plan calls for most […]
The western end of Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall has been officially designated as Vinegar Hill Park. Charlottesville’s Historic Resources Committee has spent much of the last four years planning a new park to memorialize Vinegar Hill, a predominantly African-American neighborhood and business district that the city razed in 1964. The Charlottesville City Council on Monday unanimously […]
Children used to walk for miles through fields and forests to attend St. John Elementary in Cobham. Once they arrived, they had to scrub the floors, polish the large windows and build fires in the heating stove. Built in 1922 to serve African-American children exclusively, today the three-room schoolhouse is a stark reminder of racial […]
Will Albemarle’s urban ring of the future look more like downtown Charlottesville? Will it have 10-story buildings connected by bus rapid transit? In a classroom at Mary C. Greer Elementary School on Monday, the Places29-Rio Community Advisory Committee discussed what the area between the Charlottesville Fashion Square mall and the Rivanna River could look like […]
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