The green barriers that have surrounded the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court building on High Street will be coming down in 2009.

The Community Mediation Center of Charlottesville is facing an increasing demand for volunteer mediators.

Justice may be blind, but judges usually aren’t.
  Charlottesville Municipal Court Judge Allan Spitzer could see very well. When a young man approach his bench on Nov. 4, 1965, the World War II veteran didn’t like what he saw.
Spitzer apparently felt that people entering court should reflect a certain level of personal grooming out of respect for the venerable institution. When 19-year-old Jonathan Gainsbrugh failed to meet the judge’s standards, it resulted in a legal dustup that grew into a clash of principles.