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AAA Mid-Atlantic has announced the 10 hotels and three restaurants in central and western Virginia that earned the Five or Four Diamond Rating during the past 12 months. The AAA/CAA Four and Five Diamond Ratings are the travel authority’s highest designations for hotels and restaurants.
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The VMI Keydets placed six players in double figures, led by 20 points apiece from D.J. Covington and Brian Brown, enabling them to cruise past the Central Penn College Knights, 116-81, in men’s basketball action Tuesday night at Cameron Hall in Lexington, Va. The game was VMI’s home opener and marked the seventh straight year the Keydets had won their first game at Cameron Hall.
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Dr. Katrina Powell, director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Virginia Tech, will speak on “Place, Identity, and Eminent Domain: Letters from Shenandoah National Park” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, in Cole Hall at Bridgewater College.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell announced this week that the 2011 total economic impact of the film and television industry in Virginia was $394.4 million, a 14.5 percent increase over 2010. In addition, 3,817 jobs were attributed to the film industry in 2011, up from 2,651 jobs in 2010.
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CNN is projecting that Democrat Barack Obama will win Virginia and its 13 electoral votes.
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The Virginia Credit Union League, which represents 184 not-for-profit credit unions and the 3 million Virginians they serve, announced on Friday its endorsement of former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine in his bid for the U.S. Senate
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Gov. Bob McDonnell today announced the expansion of a major soybean export agreement between Perdue Agribusiness, which owns and operates a major deep water export facility in Chesapeake, and the Dandong Port Group and Dandong Pasite Grain and Oilseed Co. of Dandong, China
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Thumbtack.com has released new data showing that small businesses rank Virginia among the top ten friendliest states nationwide towards small business
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Gov. Bob McDonnell announced Tuesday that agricultural exports from Virginia reached an all-time high level in 2011, surpassing the previous record set in 2009. The governor made the announcement during his keynote remarks at the Governor’s Conference on Agricultural Trade in Richmond. The Commonwealth exported a record $2.35 billion in agricultural products in 2011, a…
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A statewide survey of 5,000 Virginians shows that many Baby Boomers think their communities are unprepared for the coming “age wave” and are concerned about how their quality of life might change as they grow older. The Older Dominion Partnership, an enterprising non-profit organization working to better prepare Virginia for the major impact caused by…
