Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
Book lovers, mark your calendars! The Virginia Festival of the Book is coming to Charlottesville and the surrounding area Wednesday, March 16, through Sunday, March 20. This annual event features author readings, book signings, speaker panels, workshops and a special day focused on children’s literature. The majority of the events are free and open to […]
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For quite some time now, Charlottesville has been home to a fairly vibrant skateboarding culture in relation to the size of the city. With several skate shops that have come and gone, the resilience of skateboarders throughout the city has shone through the tough times. Charlottesville skateboarding faced adversity when the original McIntire Skate Park […]
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Around 150 people gathered at Charlottesville’s City Space to coordinate the volunteer efforts to support the Bernie Sanders campaign. On Jan. 9, a room full of supporters sorted themselves by their location and availability to staff call centers. Dan Epstein, the Virginia coordinator, called for local leadership and about 20 people from across Virginia answered. […]
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The Ix Art Park formally adopted executive staff Jan. 4. This move, by Monticello Associates board of directors, marks the change from ephemeral experiment to formal establishment. Radical expression has been homeless for several years, since the bulldozing of Random Row Bookstore. Brian Wimer will now take the lead at the Ix Art Park and […]
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Robert Heiston sat along the Downtown Mall enveloped in an old paperback book. His hands were worn and cracking, reddened and slightly purple from the February cold. Heiston has been living on the streets of Charlottesville since Dec. 2013. He was born over an hour north of the city in Luray, Virginia, on June […]
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With humble beginnings as a food pantry located inside a local Methodist church, Loaves & Fishes is now the largest of the Blue Ridge Area Food Banks. An ever-growing client base has led Loaves & Fishes to take many steps in order to continue meeting the needs of the community, beginning with its incorporation as […]
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Somewhere in Albemarle county, at an undisclosed industrial location, hundreds of cars begin to arrive. From them, men, women and children of all ages, races, and ethnicities emerge. They are clothed warmly against the biting December chill, many wearing several layers in preparation for the work to be done. They shuffle into a warehouse, indistinguishable […]
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It was cold and dark night on Monday, Nov. 23, rain gathering in the hollows of the steep and winding gravel driveway leading to a quaint little school house where the Bluegrass jam session was being held by The Front Porch. Walking through the entryway into a homey room, full of colorful paintings of animals […]
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The downtown freedom wall was well-utilized on Sunday, Nov. 15. Students of the Tandem Friends Council and the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice prepared a memorial, consisting of 262 blank notebooks, to bring awareness to school violence. Each notebook was labelled with the name of a student killed since the Columbine High School incident […]
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If you are not inspired after spending time with Officer Sheridan, then you are not paying attention. Officer Sheridan has been a police officer for five years. He started in the Gang and Narcotics Division and then moved into patrolling with the Albemarle County Police Department. But one thing he has not moved away from […]
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