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Category: Health and safety

These are stories about health care, environmental issues, policing, crime, the stresses of inequities — all the things that make us healthy or unhealthy in expected and unexpected ways.

A group of people with signs stand in front of a building marked "City Hall"
Posted inHealth and safety

It took five years, but the board of civilians that oversees the Charlottesville Police Department has its first case

by Charlotte Rene Woods August 9, 2022August 22, 2022

The board was formed after the violent white supremacist rallies of 2017 — and took years to gain power to investigate cases of alleged police misconduct.

Two men and a woman are pictured side by side in a black and white collage.
Posted inRace and equity

Black Charlottesville residents open up about what changed — and what didn’t — after Unite the Right

by Tamica Jean-Charles August 8, 2022August 9, 2022

“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.”

Logo reads "Short & Important"
Posted inGovernment and public institutions

Immigrant detention center in Farmville restricted to 25% capacity after COVID-19 outbreak lawsuit

by Angilee Shah August 2, 2022November 8, 2022

A privately-run immigration detention center in Farmville and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has settled a lawsuit that alleges they failed to provide safety and medical care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a parking lot, a person opens the door to an SUV to unload purchases. He holds on to a small, two-tier shopping cart with a few plastic bags in the top basket.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions

Get ready: The single use plastic bag tax is coming to Charlottesville and Albemarle Jan. 1

by Erin O'Hare August 2, 2022August 5, 2022

“Given the effectiveness of it, and given plastics pollution, I am in support of it,” Councilor Michael Payne said. He added that the city will distribute reusable bags to low income community members.

Six people work in an urban garden, five bending over and one standing. The garden is planted in neat rows and is very robust, with green leaves popping forth from the ground. In the background, homes, cars, and some trees.
Posted inHealth and safety, How-to

Don’t shave your dog, make sure you’re sweating — and other things you need to know to prepare for the hottest days of summer

by Erin O'Hare July 22, 2022August 5, 2022

Temperatures will top 100 degrees this weekend in Charlottesville. Here’s where you can get cool and other local resources.

A close-up image of a large shopping cart full of plastic bags containing salad mix, celery, a loaf of bread, boxes of crackers, and other items. The stack of bags is high enough to peek over the edge of the cart.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions, Health and safety

Charlottesville may soon impose a 5 cent tax on plastic bags

by Charlotte Rene Woods and Erin O'Hare July 19, 2022August 5, 2022

As the city considers joining Albemarle County in imposing a tax to reduce plastic bag usage, food justice advocates worry it could create more barriers to food access.

A man motions his hand toward a barren field with a few green plants poking out through dead brush.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions, Health and safety, Our neighborhoods

A proposed solar farm in Albemarle could power more than half the county’s homes

by Charlotte Rene Woods July 8, 2022August 5, 2022

“There aren’t many projects of this size of this type that are able to move forward right now,” said Susan Kruse, executive director of Community Climate Collaborative.

A man in a blue T-shirt and raised arms faces another man who has a confederate flag draped around his shoulders. On the side, an officer in a baseball cap is looking at the two men, and another officer is on the other side. A woman’s back is in the frame as well.
Posted inFirst person

In the police department, it was a struggle to be Black, and at home, it was a struggle to be blue

by Regine Wright July 5, 2022August 5, 2022

What does it mean to be Black in the Charlottesville Police Department? A former detective remembers the KKK rally of 2017 — and what it means when law enforcement tries to recruit minority officers.

A child with a mask on sits with his back to the camera in a folding chair while a woman off camera administers a vaccine.
Posted inHealth and safety

Parents rush to get their toddlers vaccinated as first doses of pediatric COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Charlottesville

by Jessie Higgins June 24, 2022December 29, 2022

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.

People hold signs outside of a courthouse that read “support a woman’s right to choose” and “intersectional feminism.”
Posted inGovernment and public institutions

What you need to know about local organizations and laws around abortion

by Charlotte Rene Woods June 22, 2022January 20, 2023

A ruling on Roe v. Wade is expected from the Supreme Court by the end of June or early July. If it’s overturned, states will be able to restrict or allow abortion.

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