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Opinion: is the City Yard really under-used? And was it really a former neighborhood?

C-Ville Weekly claims the City Yard is an under-used parking lot, which could be true, but where is the evidence of this in this article? There’s a throw-away line about it being a place for “parking dump trucks” and Charlottesville City Councilor Kathy Galvin calling it “a big asphalt parking lot where we store our…

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Local Blogger Uses Florida Woman’s Indentity to Create Petition to Remove Wes Bellamy From City Council

  A petition being widely circulated in the local media to remove Vice-Mayor Wes Belamy from Charlottesville City Council, and which features many comments from citizens, appears to be a fake [note: since the date of this posting the petition has been altered. See developing news below. The screen shot above is off the petition…

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2016 Best of the DTM Winners!

Savvy DTM readers have spoken! Here are the results of the 2016 Best of the DTM Polls. Congrats to the winners! DTM’s Best Coffee Shop 1st Place – Mudhouse 2nd Place – Java Java Cafe 3rd Place – Grit Coffee DTM’s Best Retail Shop 1st Place – BOUTIQUE boutique 2nd Place – The Consignment House…

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