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Ask The Expert
1 day ago
Ask the Expert: How Brightstar connects with the community

Getting to know BrightStar’s Community Outreach Specialists.

Music>General
2 days ago
Tickets now available for Christmas at the Paramount

Saint-Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio and “Christmas in Killarney” are this year’s featured works.

Education
2 days ago
Woodbrook Elementary raises funds through walk-a-thon

27 classes and over 500 K-12 students participated in the first Woodbrook walk-a-thon. The students walked, jogged and ran a grand total of 4,216 laps and easily surpassed the dollar goal, raising over $12,000 with final numbers still being tallied. 

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Local
2 days ago
VAFB survey finds Thanksgiving meal cost slightly down from 2024

With grocery prices up significantly over the past couple of years, some bit of relief with the annual Virginia Farm Bureau Thanksgiving meal market basket informal survey finding the price down slightly for that turkey day meal.

Slide from the Sage Smith Presser 11/20
Crime
3 days ago
CPD finds person of interest in Dashad “Sage” Smith case

Police Chief Michael Kochis revealed CPD had found and interviewed Erik McFadden, the last person with known contact to Smith, last month.

UVA
3 days ago
UVA professor, student detail ‘evil’ they witnessed in shooting of three football players

Professor Theresa Davis and student Alexis Stokes took the stand on Day 4 of Christopher Darnell Jones Jr.’s sentencing hearing.

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Albemarle County
3 days ago
Feds approve Commonwealth’s BEAD proposal toward county and city connectivity

Albemarle County is one of beneficiaries of the Commonwealth’s Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) Final Proposal approved this week by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Agency (NTIA).

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Surrounding Counties
3 days ago
Greene SRO fired for “unprofessional behavior” at WMHS

Eli Hounsel was relieved of his duties on Monday after an internal investigation by the Greene County Sheriff’s Department.

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