“What we’re doing is not sustainable,” said Albemarle routing and planning manager Renee DeVall. “If we were fully staffed, we wouldn’t be doing routes like this.”
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Posted inHealth and safety
UVA Police locked down campus during Sunday night’s manhunt, but did not alert community members living blocks away
“It’s scary to think that a shooter was loose in my city for so long and I had no idea,” Paige Robinson said. “We’re the same community.”
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
City of Charlottesville workers are first in the area to earn right to collectively bargain
City workers can now negotiate their salaries and insurance.
Posted inHow we learn
Charlottesville City Schools will consider changing the names of Venable and Clark elementary schools
Venable was named after a Confederate officer, Clark was named after a man who supported taking land occupied by Indigenous communities.
Posted inHow we learn
After 50 years of busing Westhaven kids away from their neighborhood school, City Schools votes to rezone Venable
The children in the predominantly Black public housing community have been zoned away from Venable since integration.
Posted inHow we learn
After learning that Albemarle was struggling to stock period products, a local mom took matters into her own hands
Sarah Harris is raising money to donate period products to Albemarle County Public Schools.
Posted inHow we learn
With just six bus drivers, more than 3,000 Charlottesville City Schools children are making their own ways to school this year
“A lot of parents are freaking out right now,” said Noelle Dwyer.
Posted inRace and equity
Black Charlottesville residents open up about what changed — and what didn’t — after Unite the Right
“It’s never really been a Charlottesville that I feel safe in, or even one that I feel is not really embedded in racism,” said Myra Anderson. “On that day, it just so happened to rear its ugly head.”
Posted inHow we learn
For the first time in years, Albemarle County Public Schools can’t fill its no-cost preschool program
Albemarle went all online with applications for no-cost preschool — and not enough people applied.
Posted inRace and equity
Community members clash in tense meeting over whether to remove slaveholding presidents’ names from Jefferson Madison Regional Library
“This is not about preserving or erasing history it is about acknowledging it.” said Charlottesville parent Laura Sirgany. “I can tell you that the Black and Brown youth of this community suffer the trauma of the legacy of the people whose names are borne out on this library system.”
