Ivan Orr will debut his new composition during a 100th anniversary celebration of the opening of the Jefferson High School, which provided Black students with access to secondary education during segregation.
Category: Our neighborhoods
We cover the physical landscapes of Charlottesville and surrounding counties and how things change. We help you understand how history has shaped our city, and how our choices today will affect the future.
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Charlottesville City Council votes to help close a crucial funding gap for 501 Cherry Ave. mixed-use development
Without the additional funding, the project — which includes 71 low-cost apartments, space for the Music Resource Center, and space for a possible neighborhood grocery store — would have unraveled, Piedmont Housing Alliance CEO Sunshine Mathon told the Council.
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Who does — and doesn’t — count when it comes to experiencing homelessness
Local service providers faced treacherous weather conditions during this year’s federally mandated count of how many people are homeless on a single night in January. But the government’s narrow definition of homelessness leaves many people out.
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Over the next two decades, this architect wants walkable and mixed-use neighborhoods
“You don’t want this only precious, little urban jewel,” said Stoneking. “You want a living machine.”
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In 20 years, Sunshine Mathon hopes that entrenched income inequality in central Virginia will be a thing of the past
Over 20% of the city of Charlottesville lives in poverty — which has been true for the past three decades, according to the U.S. Economic Development Administration.
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With federal funds in limbo, the City of Charlottesville approves stopgap funding to keep previously unhoused community members in their homes
The $234K in approved funding will cover expenses for local permanent supportive housing residents — many of whom are elderly or have disabling conditions — for the next six months.
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Ice leaves Charlottesville pedestrians stranded — and property owners overwhelmed
In Charlottesville, as in most American cities, it’s a property owner’s responsibility to remove ice and snow from the sidewalks that run along their property. That hasn’t happened.
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Charlottesville’s volunteer snow removal effort is in desperate need of volunteers
As of Thursday evening, just 12 people had completed the United Way’s required paperwork to shovel snow for their elderly and disabled neighbors, while 221 households had reached out requesting help.
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Proposed changes to federal housing programs could put formerly homeless community members back on the streets
Local service providers are trying to figure out how to keep people housed if federal funding doesn’t come through. “We’re all scrambling,” said Shayla Washington.
Posted inCulture
An Orange County restaurant is moving to a new location, but the owners aren’t leaving their acts of service — or their ties to local history — behind
For the Cooper family, utilizing their culinary skills to make the community a better place is a tradition that goes back generations, connecting to the post-Civil War history of entrepreneurial Black women in nearby Gordonsville.
