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Area schools are closely monitoring a potential winter storm that could impact schedules on Wednesday. Administrators are urging families to prepare for possible closures or delays as forecasts remain uncertain.

Forecasters predict 3 to 5 inches of snow across affected areas, which include Amherst, Appomattox, Buckingham, Campbell, Charlotte, Halifax, Henry, and Pittsylvania counties, as well as cities such as Lynchburg, Danville, and Martinsville.

The warning remains in effect until early Tuesday afternoon, affecting Albemarle, Fluvanna, and Buckingham counties.

An estimated 300 people gathered outside the Albemarle County Office Building on Monday evening for a demonstration organized by Indivisible Charlottesville.

City Council Tuesday night in an action item decides on an aerial easement that will allow placement of three cranes to build the Verve Charlottesville high-rise apartment building at 409 Stadium Road. 

The Virginia High School League says impending weather forecasts of snow and ice across various areas throughout the Commonwealth for Wednesday, February 19, and Thursday, February 20, could necessitate adjustments to next week’s state gymnastics, swim/dive, and wrestling championships.

As of 8am, about 9000 area residents and businesses remained without power from Sunday’s winds where gusts in some areas hit over 70-miles-an-hour.

Here we go again. The only certainty we have midweek is there’s going to be a major mid-Atlantic and Northeast snow storm.

Charlottesville Police are investigating shots fired Sunday afternoon around 5:40 on 4th Street NW that had West Main and 4th shut down for a period of time

All the family escaped, but they lost a family pet, in a Sunday afternoon house fire in the 5000 block of Alberene Road in Albemarle County.