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June 2025 for the record
Jun 1, 2025

June 2025 for the record

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BWX Technologies has appointed Gonzalo Cajade as its new chief human resources officer. Photo courtesy BWX Technologies
May 29, 2025

Lynchburg-based BWXT taps new CHRO

Lynchburg’s BWX Technologies has appointed Gonzalo Cajade as chief human resources officer, effective June 1.

Lynchburg-based BWX Technologies has named Chief Accounting Officer Mike T. Fitzgerald as the interim CFO. Photo courtesy BWX Technologies
May 12, 2025

BWXT CFO steps down

Lynchburg-based nuclear components and fuel supplier manufacturer BWX Technologies announced that Robb A. LeMasters has stepped down from his position as executive vice president and chief financial officer. The company also announced that it has named chief accounting officer Mike T. Fitzgerald as the interim CFO.

Aerial shot of manufacturing facility
Apr 17, 2025

Lynchburg transformer manufacturer to add 300 jobs, invest $35M

Delta Star, a manufacturer of power transformers and mobile transformer substations for the electrical grid, is investing $35 million to expand its Lynchburg operation and expects to create 300 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Thursday. The Lynchburg facility is set to expand by 80,000 square feet. Most of the jobs created will be in manufacturing, […]

A man wearing a suit and tie speaks at a lectern placed in front of a bulldozer.
Apr 16, 2025

Campbell breaks ground on $11M shell building

U.S. Rep. John McGuire, R-Goochland, and other officials attended a groundbreaking Tuesday for a 100,000-square-foot industrial building that will be built at Seneca Commerce Park in Rustburg. An $11 million project, the building is the largest initiative undertaken by Campbell County‘s Economic Development Department in over a decade, according to the county. The building, which […]

A Wawa groundbreaking ceremony in Lynchburg. Photo courtesy Wawa.
Apr 3, 2025

Wawa plans massive expansion in western Virginia

Pennsylvania-based convenience store chain Wawa plans to massively expand in the western side of Virginia, potentially investing $450 million and opening 60 stores along Interstate 81 within the next decade. This week, Wawa held groundbreaking events to celebrate the official start of construction on a store in Lynchburg at 14039 Wards Road and a store […]

Photo of a multi-story apartment building.
Mar 27, 2025

Governor signs landlord sexual extortion bill

RICHMOND, Va. — Gov. Glenn Youngkin recently signed a bill that will charge landlords who threaten renters with sexual extortion with a Class 5 felony . Del. Wendell Walker, R-Lynchburg, introduced House Bill 1998 to offer renters more protection from landlords who make malicious threats such as housing or financial loss, and property damage, in […]

A group of people wearing blazers look on as a man cuts a red ribbon.
Mar 26, 2025

Lynchburg’s BWXT unveils Innovation Campus

On Wednesday, Gov. Glenn Youngkin, federal and state officials and executives, engineers and employees of Lynchburg-based BWX Technologies gathered to celebrate the official opening of the nuclear company’s new Innovation Campus. “The IQ level in this room is really high,” Youngkin joked. Set on 11 acres in Campbell County, BWXT’s Innovation Campus (which shares a […]

A sailor stands abord a submarine in the ocean.
Feb 20, 2025

BWXT wins $2.1B in U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program contracts

The U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program has awarded BWX Technologies contracts totaling about $2.1 billion, the Lynchburg-based nuclear components and fuel supplier manufacturer announced Wednesday. The contract involves nuclear reactor component manufacturing and material procurement for Columbia and Virginia class submarines and Ford class aircraft carriers. The work will be performed at the B[...]

Appalachian Power plans small nuclear reactor in Campbell
Nov 29, 2024

Appalachian Power plans small nuclear reactor in Campbell

Appalachian Power, an electric utility subsidiary of American Electric Power which serves more than one million customers in Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee, announced plans Nov. 14 to bring a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) project to Campbell County. The company, which has its headquarters in Charleston, West Virginia, has identified a potential site for […]

Appalachian Power plans small nuclear reactor in Campbell
Nov 14, 2024

Appalachian Power plans small nuclear reactor in Campbell

Appalachian Power, an electric utility subsidiary of American Electric Power which serves more than one million customers in Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee, announced plans Thursday to bring a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) project to Campbell County. The company, which has its headquarters in Charleston, West Virginia, has identified a potential site for the […]

Physical therapists get licenses revoked, suspended over patient sexting
Oct 22, 2024

Physical therapists get licenses revoked, suspended over patient sexting

The Virginia Board of Physical Therapy has revoked the license of a Lynchburg physical therapist and suspended the license of a Yorktown physical therapist assistant over unrelated sexting incidents with patients.  The board entered an order to revoke Stephen Maynard Scott’s physical therapy license on Oct. 11 for “conduct with a former patient that was […]

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