Firefighters battle Ridge Street blaze
Scott Cousins, scousins@thetelegraph.com
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A firefighter working from an aerial ladder clears out debris and cuts a hole in the roof for ventilation at a house fire in the 600 block of Ridge late Thursday morning. The Alton, Godfrey and East Alton fire departments responded to the fire, which appeared to be in the upper floor and attic of the building. No injuries were reported. Show MoreShow Less
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A firefighter heads up a ladder to battle a house fire in the 600 block of Ridge late Thursday morning. The Alton, Godfrey and East Alton fire departments responded to the fire, which appeared to be in the upper floor and attic of the building. No injuries were reported. Show MoreShow Less
Salvation Army preparing to serve Christmas meals to 150 people in Charlottesville area
Salvation Army preparing to serve Christmas meals to 150 people in Charlottesville area By Rachel Hirschheimer | December 23, 2020 at 1:46 PM EST - Updated December 23 at 6:47 PM
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - The Salvation Army on Ridge Street in Charlottesville is making sure everyone who wants and needs a hot meal on Christmas Day gets one.
“We are the only hot meal a lot of these people get. We serve a very underserved population. A lot of the church soup kitchens have closed up,” Salvation Army Cook Robert Powell said.
The Salvation Army says it has seen more new faces looking for a meal during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Scattered Wednesday night power outages in the area Photo: WINA
CHARLOTTESVILLE (WINA) – Some 6000 Dominion Energy Virginia customers were without power around 11 Wednesday night along with some 2000 in and around Lake Monticello. A look at the Dominion outage map shows no widespread outages, but numerous scattered outages. One of the largest was a little fewer than 1300 in the city through Fry’s Spring, Johnson Village, Willoughby, and Ridge Street neighborhoods. Another swath of more than 650 were put up Stony Point Road from Eastham to nearly Southwind Estates.
Nearly all the outages were “pending investigation” with with no restoration estimates. Outages began into the evening as temperatures dropped, hovering around freezing in spots, bringing down some tree limbs and trees onto power lines.
How Can Virtual Tutoring Help Students During Distance Learning?
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was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters here.
As evidence mounts that the pandemic is inflicting academic harm on many students, some Newark schools are turning to a simple yet potentially potent treatment: tutoring.
The city school district plans to train students to tutor their peers, and it recently launched a “homework hotline” where teachers work one-on-one with students over video chat. Some Newark charter schools are also bringing in tutors, including corporate volunteers at one school and AmeriCorps members at another. All the tutoring is happening virtually while classrooms are closed.