
Charlottesville Reading Series announces February authors
The Charlottesville Reading Series will host a poetry and prose reading on Friday, February 16, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM at New Dominion Bookshop (404 East Main St).

The Charlottesville Reading Series will host a poetry and prose reading on Friday, February 16, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM at New Dominion Bookshop (404 East Main St).

A dry fall and an even drier January are creating some concerns for Virginia farmers.

In 2017, Eastern Mennonite University was awarded grants in excess of $3.3 million, including more than $2.2 million in federal funding.

Albemarle County police have identified the man who died in a collision with an Amtrak train carrying Republican members of Congress to a West Virginia political retreat Wednesday morning.

The Virginia athletics department announced today (Jan. 31) its clear bag policy and entrance procedures will be in place for all home baseball games at Davenport Field and all home men’s and women’s lacrosse games at Klöckner Stadium.

The Jefferson Area Drug Enforcement Task Force, assisted by the Albemarle County Police Department and United States Marshals Service, arrested three fugitives following a Jan. 26 traffic stop in 1200 block of Seminole Trail in Albemarle County.

John Rose, cartoonist for King Features’ Barney Google and Snuffy Smith comic strip, and Thomas Yeates, illustrator for Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant, will talk about their work on Thursday, Feb. 8, in Cole Hall at Bridgewater College.

The 2017-2018 Lara D. Gass Symposium will feature a diverse collection of leading scholars and experts on immigration law to discuss emergent legal issues regarding the implementation of the Trump administration’s policies.

Virginia is home to more than 1.5 million head of beef cattle, and those animals are in danger of ingesting grass infected with a harmful toxin.

National Park Service Southeast Regional Director Stan Austin announced the selection of J.D. Lee as superintendent of Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina and Virginia.
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