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The former CBS19 news anchor aims to listen to the community as a member of the school board next year.

Foreshadowing it during October 9th’s AstraZeneca groundbreaking in Albemarle County, Governor Youngkin has announced Merck has begun construction on a $3-billion pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Rockingham County, bringing 600 jobs to the Elkton location.

Eliza Monroe Hay has spent 200 years in an unmarked French grave.

The City of Charlottesville announces it will start collecting fallen autumn leaves residents rake to their curbs October 27.

Organizers estimated close to 10,000 people showed up for the second such protest in Charlottesville.

 University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have found lack of development of a particular molecule essential for central nervous system development and function could cause faulty brain circuits seen in Down syndrome individuals.

UVA became the fifth school to decline to sign the document.

A crowd starting at around 200 grew to around 300 during a “Reject the Compact Rally” on the Lawn at UVA.

Repairs of the collapsed Fray Road, the roadway that connects the Advance Mills Village neighborhood to the rest of the county, have been completed faster and less expensively than originally expected.

Investigators have determined the August home explosion in Glenmore that killed one person and critically injured another was caused by a lightning strike that hit a gas line days before the blast.