Jay Hart

Jay Hart is a news reporter with CvilleRightNow.com. Reach him by email at jhart@charlottesvilleradiogroup.com or call 434-977-6397.

Callery pear tree bloom
Albemarle County
2 years ago
VDOF initiates exchange program for invasive Callery pear trees

Overly proliferous and proven too brittle to withstand storms, the Virginia Department of Forestry is instituting a Callery pear tree exchange next month at its Charlottesville headquarters. 

Damaged car in I64 DUI fatal
Local
2 years ago
One dead in DUI I-64 crash in Goochland County

State Police say a Newport News woman is dead in a DUI hit-and-literal-run crash on I-64 in Goochland County Thursday night. 

Charlottesville federal court
Albemarle County
2 years ago
NC man pleads guilty to lying about age and sexually abusing Virginia teen

A North Carolina man, who lied about his age to a 14-year-old girl he met on Instagram before traveling to Virginia to have sex with her, pled guilty Wednesday in Charlottesville federal court.

State Police
Local
2 years ago
Pilot uninjured in small plane crash near Front Royal

A pilot in a small, private aircraft that crashed Tuesday evening in Warren County was not hurt.

Albemarle County
2 years ago
Big Meadows prescribed burn today

BIG MEADOWS, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Today’s the day of Shenandoah National Park’s prescribed […]

store closed
Albemarle County
2 years ago
Chesapeake-based Dollar Tree closing a bunch of Family Dollars and a few Dollar Trees

Struggling to maintain Family Dollar stores they acquired nearly a decade ago, Virginia-based Dollar Tree will close nearly 1,000 stores… the huge majority of them Family Dollar.

Richmond Wildlife Center kit
Local
2 years ago
Richmond Wildlife Center sly like a fox in feeding a kit

Employees of the Richmond Wildlife Center are doing their best to act like mother foxes as they feed and care for an orphaned kit that found her way into their care.

Local
2 years ago
Pier segments leave Virginia headed toward Gaza

Four U.S. Army boats, loaded with tons of equipment and steel pier segments, left Virginia on Tuesday, heading to Gaza as part of the U.S. effort to expand the delivery of food and other supplies to starving Palestinians as Israel’s war against Hamas drags on.

road
Charlottesville City
2 years ago
Signal work closes East High and Park intersection

Charlottesville Public Works advises the intersection of E High Street and Park Street is closed to traffic due to construction and restoration of the damaged traffic signal.

State Police
Local
2 years ago
One seriously hurt in I-81 wrong way crash

State Police continue to investigate a two-vehicle “wrong-way” crash on I-81 in Shenandoah County over the weekend that seriously injured one person.