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Some 200 students, teachers, staff, and dignitaries turned out Thursday afternoon for the Topping Out ceremony at the under-construction Mountain View Upper Elementary School as it heads for an opening next fall.

Crash southbound 29 at Premiere Circle

The Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority is alerting the public to a big boom at lunchtime Thursday in the Fontaine Avenue area that will close the road for a little over five minutes.

City Public Works is advising permitted activity will occur within the westbound lanes of Ivy Road west of Copeley Road between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. today that could cause traffic tie-ups.

Warner, former chair and now vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, calls it a “new low.”

Just in time to celebrate the UVA School of Medicine’s Claude Moore Library’s 50th anniversary, a medical school archivist has discovered rare medical books thought to have been lost in the 1895 Rotunda fire.

City police chief Michael Kochis said his officers need an ordinance to be able to respond to citizens’ complaints about homeless people in places like the Downtown Mall and the Rivanna Trail. But critics Tuesday vocally disagreed.

The Ivy Solid Waste & Recycling Center (ISWRC) will no longer accept cash payments beginning Feb. 2.

Charlottesville City Council decided to table an ordinance aimed at curtailing homeless occupations of public spaces.

The improvements will run between Unionville and Culpeper.