Virginia is allowing overweight trucks to pound our bridges and highways, and is not being fairly compensated.

Harold B. Folley hopes that as the coordinator of the Westhaven Afterschool Program he can guide young people toward success and away from making some of the same mistakes that tarnished his youth.

Today’s Charlottesville-area forecast calls for the temperature to top out at 72 under cloudy skies.

“I never want to dissuade somebody from going the route of learning for the sake of learning, I think that’s an incredible goal,” Landis said, “but again, [in] today’s job market, if you don’t have a skill you’re coming away with, you’re going to be looking at going back to school for something else that’s in demand.”

A 19-year-old woman died Thursday night after being hit while walking across U.S. 29.

At least two more Charlottesville-area art galleries will close in the coming weeks, as art sales continue to lag in the faltering economy.

We publicly salute and thank our dedicated and reliable newspaper delivery team of Karen Jackson and Alice Foeppel, who have delivered The Daily Progress and the Richmond Times-Dispatch to us for the past 8 ½ years, and congratulate them on their retirement at the end of the month.

There, Bush International Airport has installed karaoke booths for bored travelers.

There, Bush International Airport has installed karaoke booths for bored travelers.

Suzanne Jessup Brooks wanted to meet some new people when she returned home from North Carolina back in 1980, so she hooked up with Leadership Charlottesville, learned about community involvement and got down to it. Some 22 seats on community boards of directors, five community awards and 28 years later, she’s still down with it.

For people returning to the New Year’s resolution well this year, a transcendental meditationist might suggest getting in the bucket and riding it to the bottom.

In my chair, sipping eggnog with a splash of spike and surrounded by the remnants of a merry Christmas, I watch the Christmas Ghost parade pass by.

The woman, whose name has not been released by authorities, was transported to the University of Virginia Medical Center after the 7 p.m. incident, where she was pronounced dead.

The Court of Appeals of Virginia has overturned capital murder and other charges against Anthony Dale Crawford, a Manassas man who was convicted Feb. 9, 2007, of killing his estranged wife in 2004.

The green barriers that have surrounded the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court building on High Street will be coming down in 2009.

Just in time for Christmas, the governor’s office is receiving a $164 million wish list for infrastructure projects in Albemarle County.

In the nearly 40 years he has lived and worked in the area, Fahy “Skip” Mullaney has dedicated himself to work with social service agencies and the criminal justice system.

I read The Daily Progress article “Synthetic turf fair game as critics grumble” on Dec. 15. The Outdoor Power Equipment Institute is concerned about Albemarle County’s proposed plans to replace green, living turf grass with synthetic fields.

Everyone wants space at the trough.

For the last three years, Snowzilla — to the delight of some and the chagrin of others — has been a very large feature in Powers’ yard. In 2005, Snowzilla rose 16 feet. He had a corncob pipe and a carrot nose and two eyes made out of beer bottles.

Janet Centini is planning a quiet holiday with her family today, but she has spent the year being a de facto Mrs. Claus to dozens of cancer patients at the University of Virginia’s Children’s Hospital

Have our youth forgotten that proper attire and good conduct have their place?

Health care providers with the University of Virginia’s Infectious Disease Clinic are piloting a text-messaging program they hope will improve contact with HIV patients living in rural areas.

On this day of glad tidings, let us revisit some moments of Christmas compassion right here in our community.

I was surprised and disappointed by the remarks made by David Marotta in his column of Dec. 8, “Second-home owners: Beware new tax laws” (The Daily Progress).

The Blue Ridge School, nestled in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Greene County, has already named a replacement for its headmaster, who will step down at the end of the school year.

Many Redskins fans are excited about coach Jim Zorn.

An urban planning class at the University of Virginia has found that home foreclosures in Charlottesville and Albemarle County have shot up over the past year.

Sophisticated radar and satellites track Santa Claus’ journey from the North Pole to homes across the globe.

DailyProgress.com maps some of the best lights in the Charlottesville area.