The merger announced last week between the Lynchburg Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Region 2000 Business and Economic Alliance could well be a game changer for business recruitment and economic (Source)
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Checking Up … The Free Clinic and Backers of Education
Thumbs up to the Free Clinic of Central Virginia on its receipt of two major grants and an anonymous major donation that will allow the clinic to ramp up its dental hygiene program. (Source)
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Numbers at Sweet Briar Bode Well
Less than than five months ago, Sweet Briar College was set to close forever at the end of August. (Source)
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Despite the Surplus, Not Out of Woods
Since the 2008 financial meltdown, the Great Recession, the federal government shutdown and innumerable budget battles in Congress, the Virginia economy has taken one gut punch after another. (Source)
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Nuclear Must Be Part of Virginia’s Energy Mix
Federal clean power standards are forcing a revolution in the energy industry nationwide and, in Virginia, could bring about the first construction of a new nuclear power reactor in more than three de (Source)
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Checking Up … Volunteering Veterans and a Top Nursery
Thumbs up to a troupe of volunteers from the local chapter of Vietnam Veterans of America who descended on the Bedford County home of one of their own earlier this week to take care of a long list of (Source)
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A Breath of Fresh Air at Sweet Briar
At Sweet Briar College, Phillip Stone Sr. and Teresa Pike Tomlinson have been on the job, respectively, as president and chairwoman of the board of directors just a week, but already the tone emanatin (Source)
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America’s Amazing Women
Up until this year, the sport of soccer — or, as the rest of the world calls it, “football” — barely registered a blip on the radar screens of most Americans. (Source)
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A Boost for Sports in the Hill City
Until 1993, summertime in Virginia sports circles meant it was time to hit the road to Lynchburg for the Virginia High School Coaches Association’s all-star games and clinics. Stand-out high school at (Source)
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A Degree of Progress on the James and the Bay
The decades-long fight to save the Chesapeake Bay and clean up the tributary rivers and streams in its multi-state watershed is a classic tale of one step forward, two steps backward at times. At othe (Source)
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