At yet another town hall meeting Thursday night in Albemarle County, U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello got an earful about health care reform.

Duane Snow, a Republican vying for the Samuel Miller District seat on the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, said Thursday that if he were elected to the board he’d fight to keep three small schools in southern Albemarle open.

U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner believes that the price of not undertaking health care reform is far too high.

“The first job of the next governor of Virginia will be to restore confidence in our economy,” said Deeds

The Albemarle County Service Authority decided Thursday to increase water and sewer connection fees by up to 45 percent in some cases — despite outcry from developers who said such increases could hurt business and would come without enough warning.

U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello faced a mostly friendly town-hall audience Thursday

Flu season could begin a little earlier this year than in years past, a local health official told Charlottesville School Board members Thursday.

A group of students at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration finally received a formal introduction to their Kindles on Thursday. Now the question is: Will these things really help?

The latest forgery brings the total number of bogus letters sent to Perriello and two other congressmen to 13.

The City Council has agreed to spend $2.1 million from its economic development fund on the construction of Hillsdale Drive Extended, a road that may not see another sizable cash infusion for years because of state transportation spending cuts.

Hundreds of supporters and opponents of health care reform packed into Fluvanna Middle School’s auditorium Monday night for yet another town hall forum hosted by U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Ivy.

Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell visited the University of Virginia on Monday to highlight his plans to make college more affordable and accessible in Virginia.

“Ultimately, I want to serve Charlottesville. It doesn’t really matter the fashion,” Williams said.

The consensus statement comes as a partial victory for proponents of the water supply plan approved in 2006, as some insist that critics of the approved plan and members of the media have blurred the facts and candidates needed to take clear positions

A coal industry advocacy group and the lobbying firm behind the forged letters sent to three congressmen have submitted documents and answers in response to questions raised by a congressional committee investigating the recent “astroturfing” scandal.

The six candidates are running in the Charlottesville area’s three contested House of Delegates races.

Six candidates facing off in the Charlottesville region’s three contested House of Delegates races will appear today at a voter forum.

Many residents ask him to support ‘public option’

Albemarle County officials have set out to make sure residents have had their voices heard on the Crozet Master Plan, as officials try to determine how the county’s 2004 plan for growth in Crozet should be revised.

Perriello, a Democrat who represents the Charlottesville region, was not the only congressman to receive forged letters urging him to oppose the cap-and-trade legislation.

Perriello was not the only congressman to receive forged letters.

The site where Charlottesville’s first studio-style apartment building for the homeless and working poor could be built is seen by some as ideal because it’s close to services but detached from residential areas.

Democrats have made progress in national and state politics, R. Creigh Deeds said on Sunday, but there is more work to be done.

LYNCHBURG — Bradley S. Rees, 31, isn’t exactly a typical GOP candidate for Congress.

During his visit to the Albemarle County Fair on Saturday, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell spoke about classic campaign topics — the economy, roads, energy — and about a pig statue stolen from a Scottsville barbecue joint.

A top congressman announced Friday that he is launching an investigation into a half-dozen forged letters sent to U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello in an attempt to sway his vote on a landmark piece of climate change legislation.

The faked letter from Creciendo Juntos was signed by “Marisse K. Acevado, Asst Member Coordinator,” an identity and position at Creciendo Juntos that do not exist.

The region’s figures typically are lower than most others in Virginia.

County officials held a town hall meeting Monday for Albemarle residents seeking more information about the county’s new land use revalidation program.

Roughly $7.2 billion of the federal stimulus package will soon pay for projects across the country that expand high-speed Internet access, particularly in long underserved rural communities.