After two years of campaigning, the Albemarle County School Board passed a collective bargaining resolution. In a unanimous vote, the county School Board voted to engage in collective bargaining with the Albemarle Education Association. The two parties will negotiate items — such as benefits and wages — for all workers within the school system, but only after the union completes an election.

A Charlottesville City School student is now in custody after staff at Cherry Avenue Boys & Girls Club found a gun near their bag, according to a news alert from City Schools. At 1:30 p.m. Monday, police arrived at New Pathways Academy, located at the Boys and Girls Club, the district said.

A diverse and vibrant local news ecosystem is a critical element of a healthy democratic culture, keeping people informed and engaged with their communities and institutions. Join a panel of journalists working in the Charlottesville area as they discuss the current state of local journalism and possible solutions to reinvigorate the industry and ensure that the needs of local communities are being met.

This is the second of a series about Buck Island, by Philip Cobbs for First Person Charlottesville. Read the first story here, and then join the author in a conversation on April 23. My brother and I were born at home in the 1950s because my mother said she felt...

Have you read Philip Cobbs’ stories about his family’s legacy in Albemarle County? Want to know more?. In his series about Buck Island, Cobbs tells the story of how the largest Black-owned farm in Albemarle County came to be — and the amazing people who called it home. Among them is Cobbs’ ancestor, Sarah Garland Boyd Jones, the first African American woman doctor in Virginia.

After more than two years of campaigning — and a previous no vote — the Albemarle County School Board will vote again on whether to allow its 2,600 faculty and staff to collectively bargain. The vote comes over two years after the Albemarle Education Association began its campaign...

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.

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.

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...

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.)

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, 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...

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.”

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...