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The 75-day spring wildfire season in the Commonwealth begins Sunday when the 4 p.m. Burn Law (which allows burning only between 4 p.m. and midnight) goes into effect. Citizens are reminded to be extra careful with any open-air fire from now through April 30.
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Last Monday, President Obama released his budget for the Fiscal Year 2016. His $4 trillion annual budget proposal never balances – ever – making it impossible to even begin paying down our staggering debt.
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The Charlottesville-UVA-Albemarle Office of Emergency Management is offering free Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) emergency preparedness training beginning in March.
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Sarah Armstrong, a longtime public-school educator, will help teachers earn master’s degrees in her new role as director of the MA in Education program at Eastern Mennonite University.
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Microbursts, earthquakes, Derechos, fires, and more. Disasters can happen at any time. Is your business prepared for it?
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The 100-plus days of plummeting gas prices across the country have come to an end. The national average price for regular unleaded gasoline has reversed course, jumping to $2.17 per gallon Friday, up 12 cents in the past week.
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What is the story of a woman’s life without the marriage plot? What are women’s lives really about? Novelist Rufi Thorpe will explore her own struggles as a writer to portray women as they are, and what happens when you write a novel that does not rely on marriage for its structural framework.
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Ninth-ranked Louisville closed a double-digit deficit to three points in the final seconds, but #3 UVA was able to hold on for a 52-47 win Saturday night in front of a sellout crowd at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, Va.
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Augusta Free Press editor Chris Graham will lead a live blog during Saturday’s ACC matchup between third-ranked UVA (20-1, 8-1 ACC) and #9 Louisville (19-3, 7-2 ACC). Tipoff is 7 p.m. at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville.
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No. 9 UVA (1-0) manufactured a five-goal third quarter and survived a late rally by No. 7 Loyola (0-1) to win its season-opening game, 13-12, on Saturday afternoon at the Ridley Athletic Complex.
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