Charlottesville lands operations center for investment firm

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CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals with operations in the Charlottesville area, New York, London, Hong Kong, and Brussels, will invest $24.5 million to establish its operations center in the City of Charlottesville, creating 45 new jobs. The organization plans to redevelop the former Martha Jefferson Hospital facility. “The adaptive reuse of the…

Wounded Warriors focus of Charlottesville speaker

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An Iraq combat veteran will speak next month in Charlottesville on the challenges faced by Wounded Warriors. Ben Shaw, a former Marine and currently a veteran peer specialist for the Virginia Wounded Warrior Program, will headline the inaugural event in the Power of Ten community-speaker series at the Region Ten Community Services Board, 504 Lynchburg…

What’s going on in Charlottesville?

Chris Graham

The bloom was already off the Tony Bennett rose before the news that another underclassman was leaving the Virginia basketball program. Last year it was freshman Tristan Spurlock, sophomore Sylven Landesberg and junior Jeff Jones. This year it’s Billy Baron, who unlike last year’s departees doesn’t have the distinction of having been a holdover from…

What's going on in Charlottesville?

Chris Graham

The bloom was already off the Tony Bennett rose before the news that another underclassman was leaving the Virginia basketball program. Last year it was freshman Tristan Spurlock, sophomore Sylven Landesberg and junior Jeff Jones. This year it’s Billy Baron, who unlike last year’s departees doesn’t have the distinction of having been a holdover from…

Waynesboro-Charlottesville connector debuts

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A fixed-route service connecting Waynesboro and Charlottesville began operations on Monday. The Shenandoah Express, a service of Virginia Regional Transit, will run three days a week – on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. Express users will be able to travel from Waynesboro to Charlottesville for 50 cents each way. The Express will connect with existing…

Chris Graham on ‘Charlottesville-Right Now!’

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Featuring Chris Graham [email protected]   AFP editor Chris Graham joined host Coy Barefoot on Tuesday’s “Charlottesville-Right Now!” on WINA-1070AM. Chris and Coy talked about the AugustaFreePress.com Special Report on the PGI-Waynesboro economic-development deal and the plans in the works to build two movie-theater complexes in the West End of Waynesboro. The Charlottesville Podcasting Network has…

AFP editor Chris Graham on WINA’s ‘Charlottesville-Right Now!’

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   ‘Charlottesville-Right Now!’ www.wina.com AFP.com editor Chris Graham joins Coy Barefoot on WINA-1070AM’s “Charlottesville-Right Now!” Chris and Coy discuss the top news stories in Augusta County, Staunton and Waynesboro in 2009. A link to the podcast courtesy the Charlottesville Podcast Network – http://bit.ly/8fkVH5.

Charlottesville: New Mexico governor to host town hall for Obama

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Staff Report New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson will be in Charlottesville Friday morning to participate in a town hall with voters on behalf of the Barack Obama presidential campaign. The event will be held at the Martin Luther King Performing Arts Center at 1400 Melbourne Road and will begin at 10:15 a.m. The town hall…

Charlottesville: Local optometrists to mark World Sight Day

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Optometrists at Primary Eyecare will donate their eye-exam fees on World Sight Day – which is being marked on Thursday – to help the estimated 300 million worldwide who are blind or vision-impaired simply because they don’t have access to an eye exam or a pair of glasses. “Who better…