
Northam opens first Virginia Career Works Center in Roanoke
Governor Ralph Northam attended the grand opening of the inaugural Virginia Career Works center, located in the City of Roanoke, on Tuesday.

Governor Ralph Northam attended the grand opening of the inaugural Virginia Career Works center, located in the City of Roanoke, on Tuesday.

The Lynchburg Hillcats, A-Advanced affiliate of the Cleveland Indians, are excited to announce that former Major League player Brandon Inge will be throwing out the first pitch on Thursday, April 26 against the Winston-Salem Dash.

U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Rob Portman (R-OH) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Co-Chairs of the Senate Career and Technical Education (CTE) Caucus, along with U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), introduced the Creating Quality Technical Educators Act.

Washington and Lee University professor William (Bill) Patch will give an author talk on May 2 at 5 p.m. in Leyburn Library in the Book Nook.

MI Technical Solutions Inc. (MITS), a professional engineering and technical services operation, is investing $100,000 to expand its IT and cybersecurity operation in the City of Chesapeake due to increased demand from the U.S. Navy, its largest client. The project will create 15 new jobs.

The General Assembly convened a special session on April 11 to resolve the budget impasse. In the meantime, on April 18, we held the annual reconvened, or veto, session to consider the Governor’s amendments to and vetoes of bills. More on that later.

The best fencers in the nation will go for gold in Richmond, Va. at the Division I / Wheelchair National Championships and April North American Cup from April 20-23.

The modern marketplace is more cluttered today with new ideas, technologies, concepts, strategies, tips, and trends than ever before. Indeed, given the sheer amount of competition in just about every field, it can be difficult for young entrepreneurs to get a foothold in a new industry.

The excitement of closed quarter racing and tempers flaring has returned home to high banks of Bristol Motor Speedway and for veteran Elliott Sadler, it was as about as entertaining race as “we’ve had in a long time”.

Cole Custer came flying out of the final twelve positions to be decided in Xfinity Series qualifying to take the pole in the Fitzgerald Glider Kits 300 race to be held Saturday afternoon at Bristol Motor Speedway.
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