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When it comes to celebrating Valentine’s Day with generous distribution of chocolate this coming weekend, one of the nation’s leading pet insurers urges making sure pets don’t get into what’s goodies to humans, but not to them.

The Albemarle County School Board Thursday night approved two contracts, one for licensed and the other for unlicensed contracts, as the first ever under the county’s new collective bargaining ordinance the Board of Supervisors passed in April 2024.

The Virginia Supreme Court has set an agenda for considering the redistricting constitutional amendment, but procedures will have “no effect on the referendum scheduled for April 21, 2026”.

Items were taken from the Trading Post in North Garden.

Monday, the CPD posted a community alert regarding the demonstration by students at Charlottesville High School, warning the community to be aware of possible traffic implications. A number of comments posted in response were reported as threatening, CPD said.

The original copy, one of only 26 still known to exist, will be on display Monday afternoon in commemoration of President’s Day.

The University of Virginia is 30th in the nation out of 555 higher learning institutions in reporting of foreign funding disclosures at just under $500-million.

With temperatures well into the 50s this week in the Charlottsville area, Accuweather long-range forecasters predict the worst of the winter cold is now left behind.

A new data analysis by the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association shows annual adult visits to hospital emergency rooms for cases of cannabis use, dependence, and poisoning diagnosis has increased 29% during the period from 2020 until 2024.

The body of Patricia Ann Ritchie, a Harrisonburg woman who was last seen at a city truck stop in 1977, has been identified.