
Meeting Agenda: Augusta County Board of Supervisors staff briefing
Agenda for the July 2015 Augusta County Board of Supervisors staff briefing. Briefing scheduled for Monday, July 20, at 1:30 p.m., at the Augusta County Government Center, Verona.

Agenda for the July 2015 Augusta County Board of Supervisors staff briefing. Briefing scheduled for Monday, July 20, at 1:30 p.m., at the Augusta County Government Center, Verona.

University of Virginia Health System and The MITRE Corporation are partnering to develop better health data analysis tools to help prevent patients from getting sick and improving care while reducing healthcare costs.

I recently attended a regional meeting of the Virginia Association of Counties (VACO) where local county officials and legislators talked about the regional economy and about agriculture being the lifeblood of the Shenandoah Valley region.

The year before I was born, my dad built his first home. It was a labor of love. He was neither an architect nor a gifted carpenter, but he invested more time, energy, and heart into that home than a decade’s worth of experience could buy.

Governor Terry McAuliffe announced Monday that Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE:AJRD) will invest $11 million to expand its manufacturing operation in Orange County.

Researchers from across the world, including from Virginia Tech, plan to mimic the chemistry of the brown rot fungus to improve biorefining processes.

A 2014-2015 interim report card on efforts by Virginia farmers to reduce pollutants reaching the Chesapeake Bay found producers are “generally on-track for meeting programmatic milestones” in a multi-year effort.

Our new facility will be a game-changer for Vector Industries. But before we can move in, we have several renovation projects that need to be accomplished.

Carded Graphics in Staunton, Va., has found a new market in the growth of the craft-beer industry, and it has brought along Vector Industries as an important partner in its effort to serve that fast-developing new retail sector.

Habitat degradation and deforestation are recognized as principal threats to wildlife globally but have especially destructive implications on the island nation of Madagascar, where four out of five of the plant and animal species are found nowhere else in the world.
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