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A 1,500 square foot Confederate flag visible from a major Virginia highway will soon be flying from a diminished flagpole.

BY TYLER HAMMEL The Daily Progress The owner of a controversial flagpole bearing a Confederate flag in Louisa County has received a permit to reduce the height of the structure, likely ending a years-long legal battle. The Confederate battle flag has been an issue of contention since it was erected in 2018. Initially called the Charlottesville I-64 Spirit of Defiance Memorial Battle Flag by the Virginia Flaggers, the flagpole was reportedly built in response to Charlottesville City ...

A 1,500 square foot Confederate flag visible from a major Virginia highway will soon be flying from a diminished flagpole

The flag has been a subject of dispute for several years. It's 120-foot flagpole was built on private property about 15 miles east of Charlottesville in 2018, after the Charlottesville City Council voted to remove two Confederate statues.

A 1,500 square foot Confederate flag visible from a major Virginia highway will soon be flying from a diminished flagpole.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Leaders of Greek-life organizations at the University of Virginia have extended their restrictions on in-person activities for fraternities and sororities, even as school administrators lift stay-at-home orders for students. The Inter-Fraternity Council’s message posted on its website said it is suspending all organized in-person activity until the end of March, The Daily Progress of Charlottesville reported Tuesday The Inter-Sorority Council, in an email sent to...

Copy URL Hopes that President Joe Biden and his team could exert a calming, decisive influence over getting children back in classrooms are now getting tested. After nearly a year of massive disruptions to schools from the pandemic and a Trump administration response heavy on pressure and at times bluster , Biden promised a swift, coordinated, and supportive response. But that pledge has run smack into the decentralized, politically hazardous specifics of actually reopening schools. There�...

On- and off-Grounds in-person events nixed as university tops 100 new cases on Monday alone.

From social media to complaints to the Better Business Bureau, postal patrons are telling horror stories of bills that don’t arrive, payments that never show up, Christmas cards languishing in

Buck v. Bell was Carrie Elizabeth Buck. Some Buildings at the Virginia Colony for Feeble-Minded and Epileptics.Born on July 2, 1906, in Charlottesville, she was raised by foster parents John and Alice Dobbs from the age of three. In 1920, the authorities deemed Buck’s biological mother, Emma Adeline Harlowe Buck, a “low grade moron” and promiscuous for having a child out of wedlock. They committed her to the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded in Madison Heights, near...