The city needs a five-year plan and a one-year plan for housing in order to be eligible for HUD funding.
Grace Mamon
Grace Mamon is a reporter for Cardinal News. Reach her at grace@cardinalnews.org or 540-369-5464.
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Agenda Danville: Health collaborative meeting on pipeline expansion
The Danville Health Collaborative will hold an info session about the Transco pipeline extension on Thursday.
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Agenda Danville: Council to consider $3 million for grading project at Coleman industrial site
The city-owned site would be considered fully ready for industrial use after a project to grade 80 acres.
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62 years after Danville’s civil rights movement, both the city and the local newspapers have evolved
If mainstream media coverage in 1963 had looked different, perhaps Danville’s civil rights movement would have remained in the public consciousness in the years afterward, one journalism professor said.
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He saw his dad ostracized for reporting on civil rights. She grew up to be the Register’s first Black reporter.
They both came of age in Danville in the 1960s. His father was a white publisher who took a stand on civil rights; her father was one of the city’s first Black reporters.
Posted inRedbird
Straightforward reporting on protests set a paper apart — and caused problems for its publisher
The Commercial Appeal quoted local and national civil rights leaders. It also covered goings-on in Danville’s Black neighborhoods.
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Civil rights protesters trusted one Danville paper — and it wasn’t the daily
The “paper of record” could make — or bury — history. But what happens when there’s another paper in town?
Posted inEconomy
A look back at the first 6 months of Caesars Virginia in Danville: more revenue, more visitors, more jobs, more collaboration
The casino resort — complete with hotel and expanded gaming options — opened its doors six months ago, replacing a temporary casino that had operated since May 2023.
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Agenda Danville: City seeking $1 million to transform blighted area to mixed-use district
Council will consider authorizing a grant application to provide funding for the city’s Five Forks Project.
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3 more Southwest and Southside localities come under state fire ant quarantine
The red imported fire ant is an invasive species that has been making its way westward as the climate warms.