Fluvanna County held a memorial ceremony on Tuesday for William Young, a victim of an 1892 lynching in Palmyra. A similar commemoration is gaining momentum in Charlottesville. On March 19, Charlottesville’s City Council voted, 4-0, to expedite its plans to memorialize John Henry James, the victim of an 1898 lynching in Albemarle County. Councilor Mike […]
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Freedom and Liberation Day illuminates “lost history” of black leadership
When Union soldiers marched into Charlottesville and Albemarle County on March 3, 1865, over half of the population became officially free. So began a period of hope and intense political activity for African Americans in the area. One elderly slave told a Union soldier at the time, “I’s prayed and I’s prayed for you. And […]
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Funding push made for public housing resident training program
Participants will learn construction, maintenance skills in new partnership If all goes according to plan, 20 units of affordable housing in Charlottesville that are currently uninhabitable due to disrepair will be brought back to life in a collaboration between two local nonprofits, the area’s community college and the city. At the same time, public housing […]
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A new Albemarle brewing boom?
With the unanimous support of the Albemarle Board of Supervisors, Greenmont Hopworks will be expanding its hops processing business near Keene to support Virginia’s growing craft beer market. Supervisor Rick Randolph sees the business as a chance to expand agriculture and tourism in the region. “ There will be more hops grown in Albemarle County […]
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Area land trust removing barriers to homeownership
A Charlottesville nonprofit corporation is working to create affordable homeownership opportunities in the area as real estate values continue to rise. The Thomas Jefferson Community Land Trust held an open house earlier this week at CitySpace to raise awareness of the organization among local government officials, real estate professionals and other members of the community. […]
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Capturing a sense of place
Writing about cooking, biodiversity and coal ash found common ground over the weekend during a Virginia Festival of the Book event sponsored by the Southern Environmental Law Center. The Charlottesville-based SELC hosted three authors whose works, though differentiated in topic, all imbue a sense of place, specifically of the South. The Outstanding Environmental Writing event […]
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Will Cockrell, Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission
Will Cockrell, Planner, Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission Where were you born (and raised, if different)? I was born and raised in Hanover County, Virginia. We grew up in the southwestern part of the County, near Short Pump. I never thought I would say this, but ‘back when I was a kid,’ Short Pump was […]
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Experts celebrate Clean Water Act
A three-member panel recently spoke at the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library, marking the 40th anniversary of the federal Clean Water Act, as part of the Rivanna Conservation Society’s Clean Water Forum. “I’m absolutely blessed to be a part of a program like this,” Robbi Savage, executive director of the Rivanna Conservation Society, said at Thursday’s forum. […]
