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• The county population has just broken the 100,000 mark.  #

• Some guy trying to cross the train tracks on grounds impaled himself on the top of the spiked, 6′ tall fence designed to keep pedestrians off the tracks.  #

• Progress owner Media General is having a hard time paying its debt.  #

• A local guy by the name of Peyton Williams intends to run against Rep. Robert Hurt.  #

• Somebody has taped a piece of paper to a statue! Alert the populace!  #

• Remember the UVA Law student who invented a story of how he was racially profiled and humiliated by UVA police? He’s been acquitted of honor code violations. I guess nothing is an honor code violation.  #

• Three months after winning his case against Fluvanna County, a court has ordered the county to pay Bryan Rothamel $37,000 in legal fees after they passed a law prohibiting him (and others) from displaying the county seal.  #

• Albemarle will issue an RFP for a new Crozet library. I’ll believe it when I see it.  #

• Amtrak’s Northeast Regional will likely have its funding renewed by Congress, continuing our daily rail service to D.C.  #

• Albemarle needs you to volunteer to serve on boards. ACSA, Places 29, Pantops Advisory, Planning, Police Citizens Advisory, Region Ten, and RSWA Citizens Advisory all need members.  #

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