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From USA TODAY Network and wire reports Alabama Orange Beach: Beach season is heating up, and the coastal region is getting federal money to help recover from tourism losses caused by the pandemic. The Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration said Thursday that it will provide the Alabama Gulf Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau with $800,000 for a marketing program. The money will be combined with $200,000 in local funding. The agency is helping communities nationwide imple...

Virginia secondary looks to cut down on big plays as key to return to 2018 form Published Sunday, Apr. 11, 2021, 11:38 am Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes and Spotify News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com Nick Grant reels in a third quarter INT in Virginia’s 43-32 win over Boston College in December. Photo courtesy Atlantic Coast Conference (Erin Edgerton/Daily Progress). The good n...

ALLISON WRABEL The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress CHARLOTTESVILLE — Seeing her great-great-great-uncle Peyton Skipwith’s name carved into the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia fills Carole Malone’s heart “with pride and sadness.” “Peyton, along with 4,000 to 5,000 known and unknown patriots and citizens, toiled at UVa under unspeakable horrors and oppression to carve out a life of dignity and hope for their families and desce...

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Albemarle County doctor faces 5 sexual assault trials Mark Hormuz Dean (Photo provided by the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail) (Source: WVIR) By Lynne Vogt | April 8, 2021 at 6:23 PM EDT - Updated April 8 at 9:03 PM CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - A former Albemarle County doctor accused of sexually assaulting patients now faces five separate trials. According to our news partners, The Daily Progress, each of Dr. Mark Dean’s trials will last five days. The first one is set to star...

BRYAN MCKENZIE The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress Tuition will remain the same for most University of Virginia undergraduates next year if the school’s Board of Visitors approves a proposal from its finance committee. The board is scheduled to set tuition rates at a virtual meeting at 4 p.m. Tuesday. “The past year has been a difficult and unusual one,” said UVa President Jim Ryan. “The COVID-19 pandemic has caused financial stress for many students and familie...

BRYAN MCKENZIE The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress Graduating University of Virginia students will get to walk the Lawn in May as school administrators say revisions to state restrictions will allow graduates and two guests to gather for the traditional ceremony. The school’s Class of 2020 also will get to attend an in-person ceremony after having its graduation events canceled last year in the midst of the pandemic. Gov. Ralph Northam announced March 18 that he would loosen r...

TYLER HAMMEL | The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress The Supreme Court of Virginia on Thursday issued an opinion that clears the way for Charlottesville to remove its statues of Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. The court sided with the city in its appeal of a Charlottesville Circuit Court ruling that found that the City Council violated state code when it voted to remove the statues. The court ruled in part that a previous law preventing the r...

BY JANE DUNLAP SATHE The Daily Progress Since Nelson County reopened the Blue Ridge Tunnel to the public in November, more than 30,000 visitors have taken the opportunity to walk back in time. A new documentary is giving armchair travelers an opportunity to do the same. “The Tunnel,” directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Wagner and produced by Ellen Casey Wagner for American Focus, will premiere on YouTube on Wednesday — St. Patrick’s Day — to pay...

Half the staff: Confederate flag to fly from smaller pole