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1 week ago | 
dailyprogress.com | Emily Hemphill
History repeats itself. As occurred with his predecessor Bert Ellis, Ken Cuccinelli now faces vocal opposition to his appointment to the University of Virginia's governing Board of Visitors.
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1 week ago | 
dailyprogress.com | Emily Hemphill
Raising Cane's, the popular fast food chain specializing in fried chicken, will be taking a summer vacation of its own and temporarily closing down its location on the University of Virginia-adjacent Corner in Charlottesville. The restaurant, one of a few national chains operating in the Corner shopping district, turned off its fryers and locked its doors last week, shortly after graduates walked the Lawn during UVa Final Exercises.
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1 week ago | 
dailyprogress.com | Emily Hemphill
The developer who envisioned an apartment tower in the place of a movie theater on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall says those dreams have been dashed. Over the past year and a half, Jeff Levien, the North Garden-based owner of Heirloom Development, made significant strides toward constructing an 18-story, 225-unit building on the prime piece of real estate that has housed the Violet Crown theater at the western end of the Mall since 2015.
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1 week ago | 
dailyprogress.com | Emily Hemphill
After serving in an interim capacity for the past year and a half, Andrea Copeland has officially been appointed president and CEO of the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce. With more than a decade of executive experience with the business advocacy group, previously as chief operating officer, Copeland filled the vacancy that former CEO Natalie Masri left behind in December 2023.
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1 week ago | 
dailyprogress.com | Emily Hemphill
Albemarle County's Samuel Miller District has not seen a contested race since 2013, and it’s been closer to 14 years since a Republican was voted onto the county’s governing Board of Supervisors.
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1 week ago | 
dailyprogress.com | Emily Hemphill
The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors has officially adopted a $642.4 million budget for the upcoming fiscal year, which includes the first real property tax rate increase the locality has seen in six years. The new budget’s biggest takeaway is the 4-cent increase per $100 valuation to the real estate tax rate.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailyprogress.com | Emily Hemphill
Students, teachers and parents were alarmed when local and federal law enforcement rolled up to Albemarle County’s Lambs Lane school campus Tuesday morning, unannounced and unexpected. According to police, however, there was never any cause for concern: Local and federal agents were simply using an athletic field for training purposes; they had simply forgotten to alert the school division due to a scheduling error.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailyprogress.com | Emily Hemphill
A little more than a year after its much-heralded return, Littlejohn’s sandwich shop in Charlottesville is closing again. And this time, it seems it's for good. The news caught many by surprise, including the business' landlord. The New York-style delicatessen in the University of Virginia-adjacent Corner shopping district operated for 44 years under the ownership of John Crafaik before its pandemic-induced closure in 2020. It reopened under new management in April 2024.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailyprogress.com | Emily Hemphill
Juandiego Wade has resigned — not from his position as mayor of the city of Charlottesville, but from the post he has held for more than 30 years in neighboring Albemarle County. Long before he helmed Charlottesville City Council, Wade was involved with the county. He started out as a transportation planner in 1991 before transitioning to the role of Social Services Career Center coordinator in 2009.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailyprogress.com | Emily Hemphill
It's town versus gown. Things got off to a rocky start when the University of Virginia was founded in 1819. But for the better part of the past century, UVa and the city of Charlottesville have enjoyed a civil relationship in the 10-square-mile patch of land in the shadow of university founder Thomas Jefferson's Monticello estate. For decades, city residents have shrugged off grievances over the university's growing appetite for land and development.
