Cville Byline...and more!

February 11, 2022

Cville Byline is a bonus feature for DTM paid subscribers (thank you!) that features the best journalism from the area’s best journalists - all in one place. This week, however, it’s available to everyone.

• Newly hired Daily Progress editorial page editor Jim Spencer has gotten to work changing the takes we get from the daily: “It seemed almost like karma. On the day the Daily Progress editorial page pushed for unvaccinated people to get their COVID-19 shots to help the area’s exhausted health care workers, readers learned that an Albemarle County parent had complained to the Virginia Attorney General about the way schools treat unvaccinated students.” Read more…

• Nice reporting here from Tamica Jean-Charles. Since the early 2000s, local historians have strongly suspected that the people enslaved by the Gilmer family, the owners of the plantation that is now Pen Park, were buried in unmarked graves adjacent to the white family’s marked cemetery beside one of the tee boxes on the golf cou…