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A pickup driver from Henrico County is dead, and the driver of a Fluvanna County emergency vehicle seriously hurt after a Wednesday morning collision at Routes 15 and 6 in Fluvanna County.

After a lot of discussion about the need to fund public safety, rising education costs that include two new elementary schools being built over the next year, and more affordable housing, Albemarle County’s Board of Supervisors settled on advertising the top tax rates that County Executive Jeff Richardson proposed earlier this month.

The Wahoos had their 31 game midweek winning streak ended by an impressive performance by the Spiders.

Former longtime University of Virginia President John Casteen has died at age 81 after a brief pancreatic cancer battle.

Emergency crews responded to a tractor trailer crash in the 9000 block of Rockfish Gap Turnpike late Tuesday morning that left corn debris scattered across the roadway.

The Salvation Army and the Jefferson School Foundation are set to host the Sleep Out Cville event on Saturday (March 22) from 9:00 PM to 7:00 AM, inviting community members to experience a night outdoors and gain insight into the hardships of homelessness.

With help from the Ruckersville Advisory Committee, the Greene County Department of Planning and Zoning will host it’s 6th annual Citizen Academy April 17 at the Greene County Administration Building in Stanardsville.

As the weather begins to warm up, the Charlottesville Department of Public Works will begin performing road maintenance. As part of this effort, Public Works encourages residents to help in the city’s “Pothole Blitz,”

The National Weather Service has issued an Elevated Fire Risk for the area for the afternoon.

A shaper of Virginia’s judiciary system, former Virginia Supreme Court Justice Lawrence Koontz, has passed away at age 85.