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Ribbon cutting held for first black woman-owned real estate brokerage in Louisa Co.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - A Louisa woman made history Tuesday, May 7, by being the first black woman to own a real estate brokerage in the county. It’s called YB CARES Realty. “I do love helping people. Seeing families go from a place where their credit may not have...
UVA professors weigh condemnation of school president after protester crackdown
EXCLUSIVE — Some faculty members at the University of Virginia are privately and publicly splintering with the school’s president after he asked state police in riot gear to clear pro-Palestinian protesters from an unlawful encampment, deepening the divide between progressive professors and university leaders that has opened up at UVA and many other elite schools. […]
UVA protests result in 27 arrests, administration addresses concerns in virtual town-hall
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WSET) — On Tuesday, leaders at the University of Virginia addressed the recent campus protests in a virtual town hall. This comes after law enforcement arrested 27 people at an encampment on Saturday and charged them with trespassing. They said 12 of the people arrested are students...
After closing in March, Head Start center’s board disagrees on how to move forward
The directors of Monticello Area Community Action Agency want to bring their Early Head Start and Head Start programs back, and come back stronger than ever. In January, MACAA’s board of directors voted to relinquish its federal Early Head Start and Head Start grants, saying only that the agency was unable to “serve the number of children we are obligated to serve in a manner that is likely to be successful.” The agency officially closed its doors to hundreds of families and dozens of workers on March 31.
2910 Kitchen & Bar set to hold grand opening this weekend
After a multi-week soft opening, 2910 Kitchen & Bar is set to hold its official grand opening this weekend. Located at 2910 Columbia Pike, the restaurant serving American cuisine will officially open on Friday, May 10 and host a Mother’s Day brunch and dinner on Saturday and Sunday. Additionally, husband-and-wife owners Raheel “Ray” Khan and Griselda Giselle Fernandez plan to hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Sunday at 5 p.m., according to a press release.
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