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Charlottesville area’s only free Head Start program closed suddenly, leaving nearly 200 families without childcare
Parents and caregivers at Monticello Area Community Action Agency are used to scrambling to find back up child care. Every week, Jacquana Mason said, she would receive a notification that the day care center would be closed, sometimes just hours before its scheduled start time. It’s been like this since August, she said.
Come July 1, Agnor-Hurt Elementary School will be Agnor Elementary School
Agnor-Hurt Elementary School will keep its half its namesake and change to Agnor Elementary School, Albemarle County School Board decided last week. Agnor-Hurt is named after Guy T. Agnor, a former Albemarle County executive, and Benjamin Franklin Hurt, a former Albemarle County Public Schools administrator. Researchers at ACPS Community Education told School Board members in July that they didn’t find anything problematic with any of Agnor’s public remarks or affiliations. They did with Hurt.
Reporter Tamica Jean-Charles to speak about her community work at JMU’s Lavender Student Conference Saturday
This Saturday, April 6, James Madison University students can hear from Charlottesville Tomorrow’s Education and Families Reporter Tamica Jean-Charles about how she creates community. In the panel, called “Finding your community outside of campus,” Jean-Charles will talk about her work with Brown Shuga, a social collective for queer women...
Here’s everything you need to know about running for local office in Virginia
Want to run for local office in Virginia this year? The deadline to become an official candidate for positions such as mayor or council member is fast approaching. Anyone who wishes to run as a member of a political party, a Democrat or Republican, for example, must file their paperwork by Thursday, April 4. (If you’d rather run as an independent, the deadline is June 18.)
If you’re heading to a City Schools sporting event next fall, expect to walk through a metal detector
The Charlottesville City School Board unanimously voted yes to having metal detectors at extracurricular events at Charlottesville High School last week. Students, staff, families and other community members will only see the gates at the sporting and school-sponsored events. City Schools scrapped the possibility of putting them in schools after some Board members, like Amanda Burns and Chris Meyer, made it clear that they were against the idea.
In a scathing rebuttal, Charlottesville attorneys say plaintiffs ‘concocted technical faults’ in their lawsuit seeking to overthrow the new zoning ordinance
In a scathing rebuttal, the City of Charlottesville has asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by local residents in January to stop the city from implementing its new zoning ordinance. “The Plaintiffs already have that which they now seek to deny others — good, affordable housing in...
More than 1,000 gather to press county supervisors to invest — heavily — in affordable housing
During a massive public meeting at Charlottesville High School’s auditorium Monday night, Laura Swift took the stage to tell her story. “Born and raised here, working in local businesses until I became disabled, and then volunteering at a number of social support organizations, I am a law-abiding member of my community,” she said, speaking into a microphone before more than 1,000 people. “Yet I feel there is no place here for me.”
Charlottesville residents join lawmakers in asking Gov. Youngkin to sign flurry of tenants rights bills
Holding up signs that read “Housing Is A Human Right,” “Mold In Homes Has To Go,” and “Gov. Youngkin…Sign the Bills!,” about a dozen people gathered at the Free Speech Wall on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall last Thursday to urge Gov. Glenn Youngkin to sign into law bills that they say will expand tenants’ rights in Virginia.
Charlottesville Tomorrow welcomes new leadership to its board
Aleen Carey, educator and food justice leader, was elected as Charlottesville Tomorrow’s board chair beginning March 1, 2024. Carey is the co-executive director of Cultivate Charlottesville, and also serves on the board of the Building Goodness Foundation. Carey takes this role following Jacqueline Salmon, who served as chair for...
It was once his family’s farm — the largest Black-owned farm in Albemarle County — but now we all own part of it
This is the first of a series about Buck Island, by Philip Cobbs for First Person Charlottesville. Last year I passed a milestone, 65 years on Earth. As I reflected on my life, it occurred to me: I had spent most of my life within a football field’s length of my birthplace. I was so immersed in the place I took for granted how safe I felt there.
City Council grapples with how to handle additional $9 million funding request from City Schools
Charlottesville City Schools officials say they need an additional $9 million from the City of Charlottesville this year to cover 21 and a half newly created positions and other new expenditures, but may only get $7 million. City Schools presented their final budget request to the City Council on Tuesday...
2024 Voter Guide for Central Virginia
Charlottesville Tomorrow has published a voter guide for almost 20 years. Last year we expanded beyond the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County, after we heard from many people that they wanted more information in the region. Our guide is built to help residents participate in local democracy. To that...
It’s a rare and, for some, special day. Here’s how 4 Charlottesville residents are celebrating their Leap Year birthdays
Today is a special day. It comes just once every four years. Feb. 29 is Leap Day — and long awaited birthdays for several Charlottesville residents. At the end of January, we asked our email newsletter subscribers who gets to celebrate their actual birthdays today. And four people told us their stories.
At $1,500 per year per household, Charlottesville’s rental assistance for seniors and people with disabilities isn’t enough, say city officials
The City of Charlottesville is looking to expand its rental assistance program for seniors and people with disabilities, a program that has been shrinking as the city’s population has become younger and wealthier. During last week’s Tuesday City Council meeting, Commissioner of the Revenue Todd Divers asked Council to...
Charlottesville City Schools needs an extra $9 million from the city, says school board
Charlottesville City Schools is finalizing its budget but have hit a block: they need an extra $9 million to fund the positions and costs they expect in the 2025 fiscal year. The extra millions of dollars would go toward funding key positions, such as reading and math specialists, care and safety assistants, special education instructional assistants and stipends, attendance specialists, and more. It would bring the investment from the city up from $67 million in 2024 to $76 million in 2025.
Charlottesville City Council votes 5-0 to purchase Belmont properties for possible shelter, housing project
Tuesday night, Charlottesville City Council voted unanimously to purchase two pieces of property in Belmont for a possible homeless shelter and housing project. Council will spend about $4.2 million to acquire the connecting properties, located at 405 Avon St. and 405 Levy Ave. at the foot of the Belmont Bridge, from the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority. That includes the $4 million total price of the properties plus closing costs, something Council agreed to in a previous meeting.
As chronic homelessness rises in the Charlottesville area, one type of housing that can help has been delayed because of rising construction costs
Despite receiving funding from both the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County, the next phase of the Premier Circle low-cost housing project is delayed once more. Virginia Supportive Housing won’t be able to start building its 80 units of permanent supportive housing until summer, said Julie Anderson, director of real estate development at VSH, a nonprofit developer that provides affordable housing and on-site case management services to residents.
Charlottesville Tomorrow is hiring its next managing editor
Charlottesville Tomorrow is a community-driven, socially conscious news organization. We serve our neighbors by connecting them to each other and to the issues that affect them most. This is a newsroom at the forefront of reimagining local news. It’s a place for talented journalists and big thinkers to dig into...
Want to help your neighbors who need toiletries and household supplies? The Salvation Army is opening a free ‘hygiene closet’
Starting March 1, families and individuals in need of things like shampoo and laundry detergent can go to the Salvation Army and get them for free. Just a month shy from its hygiene closet’s grand opening, though, the Salvation Army is in crucial need of donations, said Jim Battaglia, spokesperson for the Salvation Army of Charlottesville.
Charlottesville Tomorrow CEO Angilee Shah joins national cohort of leaders who are re-envisioning news
How can central Virginia meet the challenge of keeping its diverse communities informed?. This is the central question Charlottesville Tomorrow CEO and Editor-in-Chief Angilee Shah will tackle as a 2024 Fellow in the Media Transformation Challenge, a Poynter Institute executive program designed to propel new ideas in the journalism industry.
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