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Gov. Bob McDonnell today announced his appointments to the Opportunity Educational Institution Board. The board will begin immediately to oversee the OEI.
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UVa. football coach Mike London talks with the media in advance of his team’s game on Saturday at Maryland.
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As our nation looks back on that defining period of the Civil War – a history played out 150 years ago – it is sometimes too complex to grasp. The reality is that the history of that tragic war is actually comprised of millions of unique stories, some told on the battlefield and some on the homefront. One family’s history in that war will be the topic of the Augusta County Historical Society’s Fall Meeting to be held Sunday, November 3, at 3 p.m. at Augusta Stone Presbyterian Church in Fort Defiance.
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Make no bones about it. Mike London is not on any hot seat at UVa., despite his team’s 2-3 start.
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Two new polls out Friday have Democrat Terry McAuliffe leading Republican Ken Cuccinelli and Libertarian Robert Sarvis in the Virginia governor’s race.
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If Mike London keeps his job after going 4-8 for a third time in four seasons, with eight home games in the third 4-8 season, then the University of Virginia just doesn’t care what it’s getting from its $2 million-a-year football coach.
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Virginia-based film production veterans Erica Arvold and Virginia Bertholet have joined forces to create Arvold Bertholet, a production services company based in Richmond and Charlottesville.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell today announced that Virginia Produce Company, a family-owned agricultural produce wholesaler located in Hillsville, will more than quadruple the size of its operating facility and create 75 new full-time equivalent positions.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell announced today that Virginia Secretary of Education Laura Fornash will depart the administration in mid-November to take the position of Executive Assistant to the President for State Government Relations with the University of Virginia.
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From the words of Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s novel, The Little Prince, “Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye…” Celia Culver Rutt has built a life dedicated to seeing what is unseen right in front of us.
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