Save the Free Word

For 35 years, C-VILLE Weekly has been your award-winning source for free (!) local news and arts content. We’ve never asked you to buy a subscription, we’ve never blocked access to our stories with a pesky paywall.

But, across the country, small weekly papers are struggling to stay funded in order to stay free—and we’re no different. While this beautiful city has kept us up and running through advertising support since 1989, now we also need you, readers of the free word, to help us keep telling local stories.

If free, independent news is important to you, please consider a gift of $5, $10, or whatever you can afford to keep the lights on—in our office, sure, but also the light we will continue to shine into every corner of Charlottesville.