September 12, 2022: Privately-owned tourism office opens on Downtown Mall; Albemarle to take part in Safe Streets grant after all

On today’s show:Updated COVID-19 boosters are available and almost everyone previous vaccinated is eligible The Chamber of Commerce has introduced the first cohort of its new Leader Lab of CharlottesvilleThe process has begun to determine if an Albemarle elementary school should continue to be named after Meriwether LewisAlbemarle County will participate after all in a transportation planning grant with other localities A private group has opened up a tourism kiosk in a storefront on the Downtown Mall Want to read or hear more about these types of things? Sign up for free! Pay for a subscription to provide fuel for future editions! Concluding notes for episode #429Another Monday program in the books. How many installments will there be this week? Stay tuned all week and let’s see. I remain hopeful that one day one of these will be published before 9 a.m. but also remain realistic. I began work on this one at 5 a.m. this morning. I’ll continue to work for the rest of the day, including an appearance at 5 p.m. on Charlottesville–Right Now With Courteney Stuart on WINA. I work so much because this is my business, literally. Town Crier Productions is the name of the company I formed in August 2020 to try to figure out how to pay for the thing I want to do above all - write about towns, cities, counties, or anything else that looks like it rhymes with bunicipal. The best way to keep the business going is through a paid subscription through Substack. The company Ting will match your initial payment, and I am grateful for them, for you, and for whatever teacher I once had who told me to stick to my dreams.With that in mind, I am now announcing the opportunity to give away 80 premium subscriptions to the newsletter. Someone has bought that number and I want to make sure the audience broadens. I’m still working out the basic criteria for how to hand those out, but at least one requirement will be that the recipient is under the age of 25. It’s no good writing about the details of local meetings if the people who will most live the longest under the decisions made today do not know about what’s happening at the tables of today. That’s what this newsletter and podcast seeks to do, and will always seek do to. Thanks for being a reader or a listener.  This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit communityengagement.substack.com/subscribe