
Local tourism programs to receive public-private marketing funds
More than $965,000 in matching grant funds will be awarded to 44 local tourism initiatives as part of the Virginia Tourism Corporation’s Marketing Leverage Program (MLP).

More than $965,000 in matching grant funds will be awarded to 44 local tourism initiatives as part of the Virginia Tourism Corporation’s Marketing Leverage Program (MLP).

“This country,” the latest campaign salvo from Donald Trump’s folks tells us, “belongs to Americans from every zip code.”

Gov. Ralph Northam today signed Executive Order Thirty-Nine, which establishes the Commission on African American History Education.

Offense was on display for the No. 9 UVA women’s soccer team on opening night as the Cavaliers (1-0) picked up a 7-0 victory over UC Irvine (0-1) at Klöckner Stadium on Friday (Aug. 23).

Eric Tucker brings his irreverent embrace of Shaw’s whimsy to American Shakespeare Center with a production of Caesar and Cleopatra sure to leave audiences breathless with laughter and enthralled by the ensemble’s imagination and versatility.

The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors will hold its quarterly board meeting at 10:15 a.m. Monday, Aug. 26, in the Falls Church East/West Room at Virginia Tech Research Center – Arlington,.

Virginia Tech has finalized the position description and publicly advertised the opening for vice president and executive director of the new Innovation Campus.

U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine announced $3,426,635 in federal funding through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for 21 Virginia health clinics.

The Reverend Barbara Harrison Seward has accepted a call to become priest-in-charge at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Harrisonburg. She is a 2011 graduate of Eastern Mennonite Seminary.

The SBA will make low-interest federal loans available to residents and business owners in the counties of Fairfax and Arlington and the cities of Falls Church and Alexandria to help with recovery from the impacts of the Northern Virginia flooding event on July 8.
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