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• UVA graduation is this weekend (May 20th). Consider yourself warned.  #

• Theodore Roosevelt’s Albemarle retreat, Pine Knot, is looking to become more well known and accessible.  #

• Tablet computers are working out pretty well in city schools.  #

• VDOT got seven bids for the Western Bypass, but they’re secret until one is selected in June.  #

• One small car part is the sole evidence of who killed a Waynesboro woman in a hit-and-run on Saturday. The community at Jalopnik figured it out—it’s from the grille of a 2003 Ford F150 XL.  #

• Does the city have the power to set the speed on the bypass so ridiculously low? Several people argue that it does not.  #

• Council has again shot down the police department’s request for funding to put CCTV security cameras all along the Downtown Mall.  #

• Construction bids are in for the new Crozet library.  #

• A little light reading: Charlottesville’s charter. These are the rules, set by the legislature, under which C’ville exists.  #

• The plan for Shoppers World has been made public. Stein Mart and DSW will moving in to the complex recently vacated by Whole Foods.  #

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