The Millmont Center mental health facility has been charged with 91 human rights and licensing violations. Writes Claudia Pinto in today’s Daily Progress, “the facility failed to prevent residents from engaging in sexual relations, that a male staffer engaged in oral sex with a 15-year-old resident, and that a month after the center opened a full 50 percent of its staff was made up of untrained workers hired from a temporary-employment agency.” Said the director of state licensing services, “they’ve had more violations than we have ever seen.” The sanctions against Millmont require that they improve staffing and patient monitoring, at risk of being fined or losing their license.
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Police announced this afternoon that their investigation into what was initially believed to be a fatal fire on Rugby Avenue is now a homicide investigation. #
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied George Huguely’s appeal. His second-degree murder conviction will stand, WRIC reports. #
In a carefully worded story, and not citing specific sources, WTVR reports that forensic evidence belonging to Jesse Matthew Jr., the main suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, matches forensic evidence collected during the investigation of Morgan Harrington’s 2009 murder. #
In the wake of Hannah Graham’s disappearance, and the evidence that came from private security footage, city officials are revisiting the question of installing security cameras on the downtown mall. #
Both Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta and former Electoral Board member Stephanie Commander have turned themselves in to the police on
foursix and four felony counts of embezzlement, respectively. #Ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health budget doubled and schools like the University of Virginia built massive new research facilities. A decade later, those buildings remain largely underutilized. NPR visits UVA in this story on the effect of federal binge and spurge spending in the sciences. #
In 2012, Council approved a new student housing complex on West Main—now some council members are questioning whether what they were shown matches what was built. #
The Architectural Review Board has approved a bike-themed mural on West Market, below the McGuffey Art Center, although at least one member expressed concerns that it might look like the bicyclists were riding away from Charlottesville’s downtown. #
City Police Chief Tim Longo is meeting with city leaders to work on protocols regarding the use of military surplus police weapons in Charlottesville. #
A 100-year-old Colonnades resident received military honors for her service in the WWII Women’s Army Corps #
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you know, you Anonymous, you are an insensitive prick!
I bet you’re the guy who wrote the song, “All the Girls Look Prettier at Closing Time” and still didn’t make it home with anyone. Don’t worry, as long as women believe that they can’t make it without a man, there’s someone out there for you honey as pathetic as you sound.
I’d like to echo a comment made earlier under the “Foxfield” subject heading: If this is what passes for serious “discussion of community issues” on cvillenews.com, I really don’t see any problem with humorous — if somewhat tangental and occasionally profane — back-and-forths between registered members. Both add the same thing to my knowledge of local news — absolutely nothing.
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If this is what passes for serious “discussion of community issues” on cvillenews.com
Of course, you know that it doesn’t pass as that. There are hundreds of threads with far more useful topics of discussion. Threads consisting of nothing but off-topic discussion make me reconsider my current rather-lax approach to moderating posts down as -1 Offtopic. I believe I’ll have to start doing that more often. Which sucks, because then I’m wasting time moderating boards and not posting news, because users don’t have the good sense to control their own behavior.
Has anybody else noticed how often channel 29’s “Job Spot” (brief ads looking for employees) includes listings for openings at The Millmont Center? Clearly, this is a facility that has a high rate of turnover.
Does anybody have any direct experience working there? What’s the atmosphere like? Why don’t people want to stay there? What should they be doing to improve staffing to put an end to these abuses?
Harry Landers