
Babylon Micro-Farms to expand, relocate to Richmond, creating 24 new jobs
Babylon Micro-Farms will invest $140,000 to expand operations and relocate to the City of Richmond.

Babylon Micro-Farms will invest $140,000 to expand operations and relocate to the City of Richmond.

Former Staunton City Council member Erik Curren joins the show to talk about his effort to call on the current City Council to issue a statement affirming the election of President Biden, denouncing the insurrection of Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol and committing to protect Staunton citizens from domestic terrorist groups operating locally.

Valley Guard Supply LLC will invest $1 million to establish a personal protective equipment manufacturing facility in the City of Harrisonburg.

The work of the University of Virginia-Community Working Group formed by President Jim Ryan in 2019 paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it is now set to resume, with the addition soon of a fifth group focused on public health.

The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia was awarded a grant of $725,000 from Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation to support efforts to advance equitable postsecondary outcomes across the Commonwealth’s institutions of higher education.

The San Francisco Giants announced Monday that José Alguacil will return as the Richmond Flying Squirrels manager for the 2021 season.

Vytal Studios will invest $6.8 million to relocate its corporate headquarters from Austin to the City of Richmond.

T. Nelson Saunders, Fishburne Military School Class of 1949, successful entrepreneur and business leader, passed away on Feb. 5.

Washington and Lee University’s Sociology and Anthropology Department, in collaboration with the Environmental Studies Program, will present a new social justice series titled “White Supremacy and Society.”

COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to sharply downward statewide and nationally. How are our local hospitals holding up into the second week of February?
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