Petie Craddock was appointed to the Board of Supervisors last night, J. Reynolds Hutchins writes for the Progress. The local man was the unanimous choice of the BOS, who appointed him to the Scottsville district to complete the term of Chris Dumler, who resigned last month. Craddock says that he will not stand for election in November. He’s a former member of the planning commission, as well as the board of a few other organizations, and calls himself a non-partisan moderate.
The Albemarle School Board is going to add a rotating non-student representative, Tim Shea reports for Charlottesville Tomorrow. Members of the County Student Advisory Council, a student-run group representing the county’s three high schools, will take turns participating in school board meetings, while board members will start attending the student group. The specifics of the relationship are still being worked out, but there seems to be consensus about the broad outlines.
Albemarle Supervisor Chris Dumler has finally resigned from his seat, Lisa Provence writes in The Hook. Over seven months after he was arrested on charges of forcible sodomy, and four months after another accuser came forward and he pleaded guilty to sexual battery, he stepped down. In the interim, just about every elected official and party leader called for him to resign, protesters became fixtures at Board of Supervisors meetings, and Dumler grimly continued to declare that he’d serve out his term. (There was an effort to have a court force him out of office, but it failed, because his crime doesn’t qualify as an impeachable offense.)
Somebody will soon be appointed to fill the seat until November, when the people of the Scottsville district can select a new representative in a special election. Dumler’s resignation leaves Republicans with a majority on the board, making it likely that a conservative will be appointed.
UVA’s Alumni Association has put together pair then-and-now Holsinger photos of Charlottesville, as recreated by Stacey Evans. (See also the Charlottesville Then and Now blog.) #
Surprising nobody, Halsey Minor has filed for personal bankruptcy. #
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