
Ashton Lewis to establish new pine sawmill in Caroline County
Ashton Lewis Holding Company will invest $11 million to establish a new specialty southern yellow pine sawmill in Ruther Glen, impacting 44 jobs in Caroline County.

Ashton Lewis Holding Company will invest $11 million to establish a new specialty southern yellow pine sawmill in Ruther Glen, impacting 44 jobs in Caroline County.

Did you know that the first recognizable form of toilet paper was created for the Chinese imperial family in 1393? The imperial toilet paper was rice-based and was actually presented as a scented stack of individual sheets.

The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the upcoming week.

A new law making Virginia the first state in the South to enact comprehensive protections for the LGBTQ+ community against discrimination in housing, employment, public spaces, and credit applications takes effect on July 1.

Today influencer marketing is spreading like wildfire. Many online entrepreneurs worldwide have begun utilizing this effective marketing strategy due to the ease of launching methods and the sizable return delivery.

Carla Finkielstein, a cancer researcher and an associate professor of biological sciences in Virginia Tech’s College of Science, will join the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC on July 1.

The Augusta County Historical Society and the Staunton Augusta Art Center announced a combined reopening of their exhibit galleries to the public, on a limited, reservation-based system on Friday and Saturday evenings, starting this Friday.

The Virginia Information Technologies Agency has launched a new internet protocol network that has the ability to deliver calls to the appropriate 911 center faster.

The entertainment and gaming industry took the pandemic to their advantage. It focused on creating people-centric content that would cater to the omnipresent state of boredom as experienced by almost every single individual during this pandemic.

Marches, protests, boycotts, sit-ins: these are nonviolent tactics that work.
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