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RICHMOND (WINA) – The state Supreme Court unanimously upheld Charlottesville City Council’s 2017 vote to remove the downtown Confederate statues…. saying Judge Richard Moore misread a 1997 state law he had said protected them. This is a resounding ruling not just because it allows the city to remove the Lee and Jackson statues today, if it wants to… but also renders the coverings that were ordered removed in 2018 legal, and overturns Judge Moore’s ruling that the city had to pay costs and attorneys’ fees of more than $365,000 to the plaintiffs.
The high court unanimously ruled that state statute protecting war memorials the General Assembly passed in 1997 does not apply to those constructed before that year. The Court acknowledged and respects Judge Moore’s rulings, but said he read beyond the plain language. The opinion, written by Justice Bernard Goodwyn, said Judge Moore made his rulings in good faith and with full acknowledgement the Supreme Court wou
Va Supreme Court rules Lee and Jackson statues are not subject to state ban on removal
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Charlottesville, Albemarle County schools prepare for in-person graduations following Northam s announcement
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For more than a decade, volunteers have been planning the future of eight wooded acres and a stream adjacent to Charlottesville’s McIntire Park. Job one, says Executive Director Jill Trischman-Marks, was clearing the site.
“This was the former leaf dump and mulch pile for the city of Charlottesville.”
Which meant lots of invasive seeds were left here: garlic mustard, privet, bittersweet, kudzu.
And there was a fair amount of trash. Tires, mattresses – you know, the usual.
Marketing Director Ann AllevaTaylor says clearing the site was a big job – aided by dozens of volunteers, and when the Bartlett Tree Company offered its assistance, workers were delighted by what they found. After tearing down hundreds of invasive vines, Trischman-Marks says they discovered two rare butternut trees.