
Charlottesville Reading Series announces April authors
The Charlottesville Reading Series will host a poetry and prose reading on Friday, April 20, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM at New Dominion Bookshop (404 East Main St).

The Charlottesville Reading Series will host a poetry and prose reading on Friday, April 20, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM at New Dominion Bookshop (404 East Main St).

On Saturday, the people of Charlottesville will march in solidarity with millions of others around the world to demand our elected leaders take action against gun violence.

Charlottesville Area Transit will experience multiple detours this weekend. The detours will impact the Free Trolley, Route 4, Route 6, and Route 9.

Expanding to six days this year, the 2018 Taste of Monticello Wine Trail Festival presented by Mercedes Benz of Charlottesville will return to Charlottesville to celebrate the best of wines in the Monticello American Viticultural Areaof Virginia beginning Monday, May 7 through Saturday, May 12.

Artists from the popular City Market along with other local artisans will be displaying and selling their creations at the City Market Arts on Saturday, March 17, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Carver Recreation Center.

The City of Charlottesville would like the community’s input on the renaming of our downtown parks. A survey has been launched to receive suggestions for the downtown parks initially renamed in June 2017.

The second annual commemoration of Liberation and Freedom Day, which recognizes the ending of slavery in the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia, will be celebrated in Charlottesville on Saturday, with observances at the University of Virginia Chapel and the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center.

The Jefferson Area Drug Enforcement Task Force, as part of an ongoing investigation, executed a search warrant in the 200 block of Old Lynchburg Road in the City of Charlottesville on Tuesday.

Members of local advocacy group Charlottesville For Reasonable Health Insurance provided testimony at the Virginia General Assembly and organized an email campaign, helping to ensure passage of a critical Virginia healthcare bill that will offer some in the area relief from this year’s health insurance premium crisis.

The Director of the Richmond Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Office, Daron Calhoun will be in Charlottesville on Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center to talk with community members who are interested in learning how to address discrimination in the workplace.
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