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Virginia Tech…Five Years Later

Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll

It's been five years since the darkest day in the history of the Hokie Nation, yet today feels different. Today Hokies nationwide not only remember the lives lost that day, we also celebrate how much we've overcome together. »

FDR Visits Charlottesville, April 1942

Rick Sincere News And Thoughts

Seventy years ago this week, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and a few of his closest advisors made a private trip to Charlottesville to relax and do some brainstorming in the midst of the first full year of the Second World War. Law professor John... »

Community gets engaged on West Main's past, present and future

Charlottesville Tomorrow News Center

On Thursday night at Charlottesville Tomorrow's monthly News n' Brews, about 70 community members packed into Zinc to talk about the evolution of the West Main Street area. »

Event discusses past, present and future of locally grown food

Charlottesville Tomorrow News CenterAlbemarle

Increasing awareness of how closely Central Virginia’s history is tied to farms and produce was the topic of discussion at the first Central Virginia Food Heritage Gathering. Monday’s event welcomed those invested in increasing local food efforts to sh... »

Virginia Festival of the Book: Our Sister City in Ghana

Charlottesville Podcasting Network

King Peggielene Bartels discusses how she became King of the seaside village of Otuam, Ghana. Her village is near Charlottesville's sister city, Winneba, Ghana. »

Virginia Festival of the Book: If Buildings Could Talk

Charlottesville Podcasting Network

A panel of local authors discuss Jefferson and other local architecture at a Virgina Festival of the Book event. »

U.Va. May Have Had Surprising Influence on SEC Schools

Uva Today News Blog

A little over a month ago, when the U.Va. football team was preparing to face Auburn in the Chick-fil-A Bowl in Atlanta, much was being made about Auburn’s supposedly having adopted U.Va.’s orange-and-blue school colors, thanks to a former Wahoo who we... »

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Virginia Tech…Five Years Later

Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll

It's been five years since the darkest day in the history of the Hokie Nation, yet today feels different. Today Hokies nationwide not only remember the lives lost that day, we also celebrate how much we've overcome together. »

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