Sean Tubbs

1 week ago | c-ville.com | Sean Tubbs

The Commonwealth of Virginia purchased nearly 1,200 acres of land at Biscuit Run in late 2009 in order to create a new state park, but funding to build the various components did not materialize. In 2018, Albemarle County entered into a 99-year lease with the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation to open the space as a county-run park. After years of planning and saving up money, the first phase of the park opened last December with 8.5 miles of walking trails.

1 week ago | communityengagement.substack.com | Sean Tubbs

Somehow we are now into the second week of May and at the time when Charlottesville’s population decreases as thousands of University of Virginia students return home. The trees are mostly filled in and pollen counts are higher. The heat has not yet arrived, but it’s only a matter of time. This is the time in the opening paragraph where you learn that you’re reading Charlottesville Community Engagement. I’m Sean Tubbs, and I’m too blissed out by today’s beauty to look back into the past.

1 week ago | communityengagement.substack.com | Sean Tubbs

The first edition of the Cambridge Chronicle was published on May 7, 1846 and the second page contains these words: “A newspaper is truly, to a considerable extent, a chronicle of the times” and goes on to say that “it is difficult for the conductor of a newspaper to describe his plan.”The same can definitely be said for Charlottesville Community Engagement, a newsletter and occasional podcast that seeks to serve the same purpose.

1 week ago | c-ville.com | Sean Tubbs

When an investment firm purchased the former Cavalier Crossing apartment complex on Fifth  Street Extended last year, affordable housing advocates were horrified that the intent was to convert the 144 existing units to market rate. Now Bonaventure has filed plans with Albemarle to rezone the property to allow construction of 165 new units and comply with the county’s requirements for affordable housing.

1 week ago | communityengagement.substack.com | Sean Tubbs

As more editions of Charlottesville Community Engagement are produced, they are all produced in an era where journalism is in flux. But, hasn’t that always been the case? We’re now up to May 6, 2025, and the first edition of The New York Heraldwent out on this day in 1835 and would last until 1924. Today is also the 124th anniversary of the first edition of the Gorkhapatra, the oldest newspaper still publishing in Nepal. I’m Sean Tubbs, and here are several more stories that may be of interest.