
First Lady announces Governor’s Executive Mansion to reopen to the public Sept. 2
Virginia’s Executive Mansion, the oldest purpose-built governor’s home in the United States, will reopen to the public for tours on Friday, Sept. 2.

Virginia’s Executive Mansion, the oldest purpose-built governor’s home in the United States, will reopen to the public for tours on Friday, Sept. 2.
The student paper at my alma mater, the University of Virginia, wants the school to distance itself from its founder, Thomas Jefferson, by removing his name from buildings and memorials to him from the Grounds.

Dustin Groves, a Charlottesville native and Monticello High School alum, has been hired as an assistant coach for the Virginia men’s golf program.
Water Street will be reduced to one traffic lane under the bridge with vehicular traffic flagged on Monday, Aug. 22.
MicroGEM, a Charlottesville-based molecular biology company, announced that it is providing saliva tests to The Health Wagon to provide free testing at its Move Mountains Medical Mission under way this week at the Wise County Fairgrounds.

New Dominion Bookshop will host an in-person reading with authors Lesley Wheeler and Remica Bingham-Risher on Saturday, Oct. 1, at 7 p.m.
The Blacksburg-based WVTF Radio IQ has won a national Edward R. Murrow Award for overall excellence in news reporting in the small market category by the Radio Television Digital News Association.

Pink Martini was inducted into both the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame and the Oregon Music Hall of Fame in 2014. Now, eight years later, they bring their band to Charlottesville at the Paramount Theater.

A former Army officer assigned to the JAG School in Charlottesville has been arrested in Arkansas on cyberstalking charges.

Between retirements and the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 in Waynesboro and the industry changing with compensation for police, the Waynesboro Police Department is 20 percent down in staff. Ten police officer positions are open, as well as office positions.
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