Carlton is one of just two mobile home parks remaining in Charlottesville.
Category: The big stories
Charlottesville Tomorrow focuses on the communities of central Virginia and covers issues that you might not see elsewhere. Here are some of our enterprise and investigative reports and projects that you can dive into.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
After days of peaceful student protest, UVA president said ‘it became necessary to rely on assistance from the Virginia State Police’ to clear an encampment
UVA President Ryan and Police Chief Longo are streaming a ‘town hall’ to explain why the operation to clear the encampment got so large.
Posted inFirst person
It was once his family’s farm — the largest Black-owned farm in Albemarle County — but now we all own part of it
Philip Cobbs tells the story of his birthplace, and why we should all know its history.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
2024 Voter Guide for Central Virginia
Find out what’s on your ballot and what it all means.
Posted inOur neighborhoods
Fifeville residents got a say in a private developer’s plans by making an unusual agreement
The resulting project is designed to give low income residents jobs, services and affordable housing. And the developer will earn “much less” profit because of it.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
Voters didn’t have a say in nearly 75% of local Central Virginia races this year — because there weren’t enough candidates
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.
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.
