
Albemarle County: Route 53 closed Sept. 22 for pipe work
Motorists traveling on Route 53 in Albemarle County should plan alternate routes next Tuesday while crews replace a failing pipe.

Motorists traveling on Route 53 in Albemarle County should plan alternate routes next Tuesday while crews replace a failing pipe.

A man detained by a citizen in a Sept. 11 attempted robbery is now a suspect in a string of felonies across the Charlottesville-Albemarle County area.

Beginning this Friday, and running through Saturday, Oct. 31, registered voters in Albemarle County can vote early in-person in Conference Room A at the 5th Street County Office Building at 1600 5th Street.

The At Ready statue and the associated memorials of the cannons, cannonballs, and stone base, will be removed from Court Square on Saturday.

The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution Tuesday to accept the offer from the Shenandoah Valley Battlefield Foundation for the At Ready statue, the two cannons, the stacked cannonballs, and the granite base located at Court Square.

The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors will meet next week on Tuesday, Sept. 8 at 5 p.m. and on Wednesday, Sept. 9 at 10:30 a.m.

Officers with the Albemarle County Police Department were dispatched to Bellair Market, located at 2401 Ivy Road, for a report of an attempted burglary on Friday at 4:30 a.m.

Albemarle County Fire Rescue responded to a structure fire at Summers Market on the corner of Rio Road and Earlysville Road reported at 1:38 a.m. Friday.

Albemarle County will remove the At Ready statue, the two cannons, and the stacked cannonballs located at Court Square on Saturday, Sept. 12.

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