HAMPTON - Roughly 200 Hampton high school students will get their hands dirty this summer in a new community garden - the first youth program of its kind in the city. It started with a simple idea: to plant some tomatoes.

ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) - Albemarle County's public schools are overcrowded, and the temporary fix is just that; temporary. Albemarle High School has been using mobile classrooms ("pods"), which can be a cross-campus run for some students. "I feel like I'm getting the same instruction in both a classroom in the main building and a classroom in the pods.

Some Hanover County residents are hoping that at least 9,000 of their neighbors will sign a petition seeking a referendum on the November ballot for an elected School Board.

CHRISTIANSBURG - The Montgomery County School Board voted 4-2 this past week to advertise an annual salary of $240,000 for its next superintendent, as a search for the position continues. The decision over the advertising of the salary occurred near the end of the public portion of a specially convened meeting on Tuesday.

Loudoun County Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Phyllis Randall said following stories from people and groups with "dubious agendas," she wanted to share her account on Wednesday during her annual state of the county address highlighting the notable moments, people and things to remember from the past year inside the government center's board room.

School staff submitted work orders for alarm panels at 21 schools between Dec. 28 of last year and Feb. 9 of this year - two days before the catastrophic fire at William Fox Elementary, according to emails obtained by CBS 6 through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (WJLA) - Hours before Alexandria City High School students were set to return to the classroom following the stabbing death of Luis Mejia Hernandez, a senior, the principal sent a notice to the campus calling for the continuation of virtual learning for the vast majority of students.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - School safety plans go beyond active shooter drills. It's also about having a secure campus. There are some expensive plans underway to renovate Buford Middle School and ultimately make it safer for learning. The word safe has a different meaning than it did 57 years ago when the first students walked into the school.

At Broadway High School, a guidance counselor is now a "counseling director" with a sleeve tattoo, and a career coach is a goth community college employee that helps students define career goals. Massanutten Technical Center finally gets its due after 50 years serving young and old, teaching high-demand trades with offers for immediate employment.

As a sophomore at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Sydney Belt was paired with an elementary school student who exclusively spoke Spanish when the campus's WISE club met. Belt had some familiarity with the language after taking Spanish classes, but she wanted to make the experience meaningful when the Women Interested in Science and Engineering club met at the Fairfax County, Virginia, school.