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The Virginia Department of Health reported a staggering 8,756 new COVID cases on Christmas Eve, as the Omicron variant continues to take root in the Commonwealth – but the news isn’t all bad.
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Gov. Ralph Northam announced more than $3.6 million in GO Virginia grants to support 13 projects focused on expanding workforce development and talent pipelines in key industries, fostering business, and improving infrastructure.
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Three properties in Charlottesville and Albemarle County owned by the University or the University of Virginia Foundation have been selected as the sites proposed for a new housing development initiative.
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The great Virginia football teams of the past were built on a foundation of great in-state talent – Shawn Moore, Herman Moore, Chris Slade, Terry Kirby, Ronde and Tiki Barber, Thomas Jones, Heath Miller, Chris Long.
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Chris Slade and a slew of other former Virginia gridiron greats made the trip to Charlottesville Monday to welcome Virginia’s 42nd head football coach, and Slade made it clear after that he liked what he saw and heard.
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The Virginia Cooperative Extension Small Farm Outreach Program at Virginia State University has announced its 2021 award winners.
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New head football coach day is a big day everywhere. The new guy, in Virginia’s case, Tony Elliott, recently of Clemson, hasn’t lost to Virginia Tech yet, hasn’t made any donors upset yet.
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Gov. Ralph Northam’s proposed two-year state budget will increase funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities to record numbers.
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Virginia athletics director Carla Williams has her man: Tony Elliott, recently of Clemson, as offensive coordinator, will replace Bronco Mendenhall as the head football coach.
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The largest ever gift by a Virginia Tech alumnus will advance a long-awaited project to replace an aging engineering building with what will be the largest building on the university’s Blacksburg campus.
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