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Katherine Knott
The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress
CHARLOTTESVILLE — Charlottesville s Confederate statues will come down Saturday morning, a historic moment that city officials shrouded in secrecy all week.
A company contracted to install temporary fencing began its work Friday morning, hours before the city announced early Friday afternoon that the statues of Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson would come down Saturday.
City workers also had begun to cut shrubbery and trees to allow for the removal, but city leaders had remained mum on plans for the removal of the controversial statues. City officials did not answer questions about why the move was hushed and rushed. ....

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