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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.

A man in slacks and a blue sweater stands in front of an unused industrial building.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions

COVID relief funding has ended and now the rural town of Scottsville has to cut its budget by 25%

by Erin O'Hare February 21, 2023March 7, 2023

The town’s mayor hoped a proposed apartment project would save them, but Council voted it down.

A close-up of a hand holding an iPhone, showing text messages in all capital letters.
Posted inHealth and safety

UVA Police locked down campus during Sunday night’s manhunt, but did not alert community members living blocks away

by Jessie Higgins and Tamica Jean-Charles November 16, 2022March 7, 2023

“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.”

A child steps of a school bus toward a waiting woman.
Posted inHow we learn

After 50 years of busing Westhaven kids away from their neighborhood school, City Schools votes to rezone Venable

by Tamica Jean-Charles October 7, 2022March 7, 2023

The children in the predominantly Black public housing community have been zoned away from Venable since integration.

A aerial view of a boulevard with roofs of buildings
Posted inOur neighborhoods

A decade of data tells a story of how Charlottesville’s neighborhoods are changing

Man with beard smiles at camera by Erin O'Hare and Evan Mitchell October 4, 2022January 4, 2023

This year, we’re telling 19 stories about 19 neighborhoods using data, history and voices of the community.

A brick wall is pictured covered in chalk messages. In front of the wall, the sidewalk is lined with purple flowers. A purple sign in the middle reads “Heather,” with a heart on top.
Posted inFrom the newsroom

Our #Charlottesville: How Charlottesville Tomorrow is covering the fifth anniversary of Unite the Right

by Jessie Higgins August 8, 2022August 22, 2022

Five years after the “summer of hate,” we’re telling our community’s own stories.

A man sits in the fold-down seat of his metal walker in front of a red door that a Christian icon of the Virgin Mary, the Baby Jesus, and Saint Joseph. There are windows on either side. He wears a camouflage hat, wire-rimmed aviator-style eyeglasses, some stubble on his cheeks and chin, a T-shirt, camouflage cargo pants and Crocs shoes. His knuckles, which face the camera, are tattooed with his name, “Phil.”
Posted inOur neighborhoods

When this Charlottesville shelter closes next year, its 100 elderly and seriously ill guests might have nowhere to go

by Erin O'Hare June 7, 2022March 10, 2023

“If it weren’t for Premier Circle, I’d be homeless,” said Sunshades, a shelter guest.

A roll of "I voted" stickers, with stickers scattered across table
Posted inGovernment and public institutions

2022 Voter Guide and Election Results

A "T" on a purple circle by Charlottesville Tomorrow May 19, 2022December 9, 2022

Here’s what you need to know to make informed choices about who represents you.

A man stands at a workstation, his back to the camera, with a monitor and red phone on a gray desk. Beyond there are many bunk beds in star patterns with blue mattresses.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions

An immigration detention center in Farmville built for over 700 people now has 11 — and activists say it’s time to shut it down

by Angilee Shah May 9, 2022November 3, 2022

Farmville earns $15,000 and the private company that operates the center earns $2 million per month from the federal government, even though they had a huge COVID-19 outbreak and detainees say that conditions there have been unbearable.

A woman touches the buds of a small tree.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions

Charlottesville’s 10th & Page has fewer trees and higher temperatures than other residential neighborhoods — and it’s not by accident

by Charlotte Rene Woods March 14, 2022February 22, 2023

“What I think redlining and all of these nefarious urban planning decisions from the past show us is that decisions that we make can reverberate for a hundred years or more,” said Jeremy Hoffman, a researcher at the Science Museum of Virginia.

Posted inHealth and safety

Still Determined

A "T" on a purple circle by Charlottesville Tomorrow March 16, 2021

Contextualizing and exploring the immediate and long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

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