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Two Republicans who are trying to win their for party's nomination for the U.S. Senate made campaign swings through Albemarle County over the weekend. Chesapeake minister E.W. Jackson had a rally Sunday evening at the Double Tree Hotel.
The Daily Progress reports that just before 9 p.m. on Sunday multiple rescue crews from Charlottesville and Albemarle County responded to a crash and a large fire in Crozet, 12 miles west of Charlottesville. Police say the small, private aircraft was located in a field and that the remains of the body will be taken to the medical examiner's office for autopsy and identification.
A month after a Ku Klux Klan rally here ended with the police using tear gas on protesters , Charlottesville is bracing for a weekend of white nationalist demonstrations and counterprotests, and suddenly this tranquil college town feels like a city under siege. Thousands of people - many from out of town - are expected to descend on the city to either protest or participate in a "Unite the Right" rally on Saturday convened by white nationalists who oppose a plan to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general, from a city park.
Charlottesville, Albemarle County and the University of Virginia have a new Emergency Management Coordinator. Allison Farole has replaced Kirby Felts who held the job for the past five years.