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Poison control

The Piedmont Group of the Sierra Club is urging the community to speak out against the usage of synthetic chemical...

The ghost deer

The Charlottesville neighborhood of Fry’s Spring has an unofficial mascot: a pale white deer that pops up in...

Running at Ragged? Public...

On a pleasantly wet Wednesday evening in late April, 60-odd people congregated at Trinity Presbyterian Church for the...

Living Picks: To-do this week

Nonprofit Friends of the Library book sale Leaf through thousands of books and other media at the 51st annual spring...

Spreading the words

Every March thousands gather in Charlottesville for the Virginia Festival of the Book, now in its 22nd year, to...

Riverkeeper pleased with...

Charlottesville’s Southern Environmental Law Center, representing the James River Association, reached a settlement...

Trash talk

It’s been nearly three months since Albemarle County resident Scott Fox first noticed a number of plastic bags...

Dominion to dump in...

The State Water Control Board officially approved Dominion’s permit to dump wastewater into two Virginia rivers...

What’s bugging you?...

Leslie Lovelace, manager at Ivy Corner Garden Center, knows wheel bugs, also called “assassin bugs,” only by their...

Honorable discharge

Environmental groups and concerned citizens worry that Dominion’s intentions to dump millions of gallons of...