Once more into the breach we go, though we’re not headed for battle but for another bout of audio stories collected and packaged as the Charlottesville Community Engagement podcast. This is an element of Town Crier Productions, a one-person information outlet created in 2020 to provide me, Sean Tubbs, with a way to do what I love best: Write stories that may seem obscure until you realize I’m writing about growth, economic development, and living in a changing community.

In this edition:

* One person is dead and another injured following house explosion in Keswick (story)

* Judge Worrell is set to make a decision related to the granting of default judgment in the legal case against the city’s zoning code but it had not come in at press time (story #1) (story #2)

* Albemarle Fire Chief Dan Eggleston will retire in October and a brief look back at his career as well as a listen back to a March story about why fire and police both asked for more money in the FY2026 budget (story)

* Charlottesville City Council briefed on regional tourism efforts (story)

* Albemarle County Supervisors adopt economic development strategic plan (story)

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