Folks on the ground say it’s hard to get people to volunteer for unpaid positions subject to long hours, political polarization, and public vitriol.
Category: The big stories
These are the big reports you can’t miss. Let’s tell our stories together, for our own community and for the rest of the country that is watching what happens in the Charlottesville area.
Posted inHealth and safety
Charlottesville High students and teachers at their breaking point with fights, lockdowns and adults trespassing on campus
27 of 96 teachers called out because of fights, forcing the high school to close for three days.
Posted inOur neighborhoods
Charlottesville had — and lost — a shelter that social workers say could have helped hundreds of unhoused people off the streets
Had the shelter continued, its homeless service workers are convinced they could move hundreds more people off the streets, including many of those now camped downtown.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
Lynching victim John Henry James receives ‘one little drop of justice’ 125 years after his death
Judge called posthumous rape indictment a “mockery of the judicial system. Not as an instrument of justice, but as cause to lynch a man simply because he was Black.”
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
2023 Voter Guide for Central Virginia
This year, Charlottesville Tomorrow is expanding its voter guide to more of the counties in the region.
Posted inHow we learn
The great nephew of one of the Burnley-Moran Elementary School namesakes defends his aunt’s legacy
Sarepta Moran was a white elementary school principal during segregation and a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, but her nephew says that doesn’t mean she was racist.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
Democratic state senate candidates Hudson and Deeds debate the need for a new generation of legislators versus the value of seniority
In a forum hosted by Charlottesville Tomorrow and students at the UVA Center for Politics Monday evening, hundreds of community members submitted questions ahead of the June 20 primary election.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
COVID relief funding has ended and now the rural town of Scottsville has to cut its budget by 25%
The town’s mayor hoped a proposed apartment project would save them, but Council voted it down.
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 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.
