
Virginia Cooperative Extension: Important resource in severe weather
For more than a century, Virginia Cooperative Extension has helped Virginians manage the devastations bad weather can cause.

For more than a century, Virginia Cooperative Extension has helped Virginians manage the devastations bad weather can cause.

Virginia State University will host its third annual Industrial Hemp Field Day on July 25 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the university’s Gateway Conference Center, 2804 Martin Luther King Boulevard, Colonial Heights.

Pamplin Historical Park & The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier is celebrating its 25th anniversary on May 26-27 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

Pamplin Historical Park & The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier explores irregular warfare with this month’s guest speaker Barton Meyers, Associate Professor of History at Washington and Lee University.

Governor Ralph Northam announced $2.2 million in Homeless Reduction Grants through the Virginia Housing Trust Fund (VHTF) for 30 projects in Virginia.

Governor Ralph Northam announced this week $600,000 in competitive grants to 16 high schools and technical centers to upgrade equipment for their career and technical education (CTE) programs.

The Charlottesville Reading Series will host a poetry and prose reading on Friday, April 19, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM at New Dominion Bookshop (404 East Main St).

Polycap LLC, a Toronto-based manufacturer of specialty caps and closures for a number of vertical markets, will invest $7.7 million to establish its first U.S. manufacturing facility in the 76,000-square-foot Russell County shell building in Lebanon.

Injuries can happen anywhere. They can be the result of carelessness, poor planning, and maintenance or negligence on the part of a third party.

A long-overdue victory for workers was achieved this week when Gov. Ralph Northam signed two bills requiring employers to provide paystubs to their employees.
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