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The long awaited approval of a COVID-19 vaccine for young children comes as a relief to many parents, especially as more young children are becoming sick with the newer variants of COVID-19.
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Charlottesville City Council will apply for funding. It has budgeted to rebuild Buford Middle School but hasn’t yet budgeted for the overhaul of Walker Elementary.
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“I’d like to say that, along with this lovely spring that we are having, this is part of a new beginning. But, we have been fooled before so we’ll just have to wait and see,” said Dr. Reid Adams, UVA Health’s chief medical officer.
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It’s possible to fund the school renovations without raising taxes — but that could mean postponing things like sidewalk repairs, road paving, and new affordable housing projects.
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“It’s a conundrum,” said Nicole Winkler, the dean of Health and Life Sciences at Piedmont Virginia Community College. “It’s a quagmire. I don’t know how else to describe it.”
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There have been four fatal crashes in less than two years along a mile-long stretch of Fifth Street Southwest. But making the road safer isn’t as simple as reducing the speed limit.
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A subcommittee in the General Assembly killed three House bills Friday that could help fund Charlottesville’s school reconfiguration project. Delegates will get a second chance to approve similar bills later this month.
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The Blue Ridge Health District will host a town hall to answer your questions this week. A Tuesday evening townhall was postponed due to power outages.
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The district’s Thursday clinic at Fashion Square Mall began at 2 p.m. Hundreds of cars circled the parking lot by 2:30 p.m. Those managing traffic and signalling people in couldn’t say how long the lines might get.
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Somewhere in the northern part of Virginia, officials have confirmed the state’s first two cases of COVID-19 caused by the new Omicron variant of the virus.
It’s unclear exactly where the variant was detected. Officials have...
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Local health officials say they are doing what they can to prepare for the arrival of a new variant of COVID-19 called Omicron.
The new variant has not yet been reported in the United States, though...
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As of this week, UVA Health has fired 64 employees and suspended without pay 18 more for refusing to receive a COVID vaccine. An additional 39 have resigned.
Of those 121 people, two are doctors and...
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