Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
Food insecurity is a well known issue, with thousands of food banks and food resource networks across the US attempting to alleviate it; the problem is that most of them are closed during the last ten days of the year. So in 2019, Amanda Key, the Student Financial Resource Center (SFRC) coordinator, came up with […]
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For over a decade, a small tamed patch of the PVCC grounds has been growing and evolving. What began as a garden started by a single student and a few co-advisors, with plants being grown directly out of bags of soil, has evolved into a community of its own. “We started out with no fence, […]
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Both children and adults that came for the tree lighting at the Shops at Stonefield were in for a surprise on the night of Nov. 27 when a special interruption occurred. When the crowd got to the end of the countdown for the lighting of the tree, the lights simply did not turn on. All […]
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Gun sales increased rapidly in 2020 with an unprecedented amount of new gun owners walking out of stores with firearms, many of them with no prior experience handling or operating any sort of firearm. I met with a local firearms instructor to discuss how she has been working to counteract this trend. We met at […]
Continue ReadingMiller’s Downtown, like much of Charlottesville, has the feel of an old college town trying to stay true to its roots but also appealing to the college students who reside in the city for half the year and their parents who come to visit them. Miller’s is on the western most part of the Downtown […]
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Albemarle County Public Schools (ACPS) are getting two new electric school buses, but unlike the vehicles themselves, they are not staying quiet about it. On Friday Nov. 5, ACPS co-hosted an event with Generation180 to showcase the model of the new electric school buses that will be joining their fleet “most likely midway through next […]
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This weekend marked the 12th or 13th year that EpicCville has hosted Battle of The Bands. “Honestly we’ve been doing this so long I don’t even remember,” said organizer Chris Gallagher, from atop the stage set in the field at the Shops at Stonefield. “I originally started Battle of the Bands because I came from […]
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