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Woman accused of running high-end brothels in Northern Virginia and near Boston set to be sentenced
Jun 20, 2025

Tarley is new president-elect of Virginia State Bar

Williamsburg attorney Susan Bradford Tarley was chosen the 2025-26 president-elect of the Virginia State Bar on June 13 during the organization’s annual meeting in Virginia Beach. Tarley is a partner at Tarley Robinson, where she focuses her practice on real estate, business matters and creditors’ rights. She has also served as an adjunct professor at the College […]

Real Estate and Construction: Stagnant with some silver linings
Jun 11, 2025

Housing sales decline in NoVa, Hampton Roads

Housing sales last month decreased year-over-year in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads, although inventory and median sales prices rose.

Sentara Princess Anne Hospital. Photo courtesy Sentara
May 14, 2025

Sentara reorganizes to market-based model

Sentara Health has changed its operating model to a regional market-based system, the Virginia Beach-based health system announced May 13.

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May 1, 2025

Vortex acquires Prism Contractors & Engineers

Houston, Texas-based Vortex Companies, which provides trenchless water and sewer infrastructure products, announced last week that it has acquired Williamsburg-based Prism Contractors & Engineers.

Rob and Jean Berger Estes, William & Mary alums and owners of Richmond-based Estes Express Lines, made a $15 million donation to William & Mary in April 2025. Photo credit: Alfred Herczeg/William & Mary
Apr 24, 2025

Estes family donates $15M for William & Mary accounting center

Estes Express Lines' owners donate $15M to William & Mary to create the Estes Center for Excellence in Accounting at the Mason School of Business.

W&M receives $50M gift from alum for Batten School, VIMS
Feb 6, 2025

W&M receives $50M gift from alum for Batten School, VIMS

William & Mary alumnus Dr. R. Todd Stravitz has donated $50 million to the Williamsburg university to create a full-tuition scholarship fund for its new Batten School of Coastal & Marine Sciences and the Virginia Institute for Marine Science, W&M announced Thursday. This is W&M’s largest ever scholarship fund donation, it said in the announcement, […]

Historic Triangle gears up for America’s 250th birthday bash
Dec 31, 2024

Historic Triangle gears up for America’s 250th birthday bash

Inside Richmond’s historic St. John’s Church in November 2024, a film crew and actors recreated the Second Virginia Revolutionary Convention and the enduring speech of Patrick Henry that still evoke chills nearly 250 years later: “I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.” This […]

100 People to Meet in 2025: Impact Makers
Sep 29, 2024

Lead generation

Imagine the opportunity to hear Thomas Jefferson speak on today’s most important societal issues. That’s exactly the aim of The Williamsburg Institute, a new collaborative effort between the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and William & Mary. The nonprofit institute is aimed at providing immersive opportunities for leadership development, specifically among three demographics: bus[...]

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Aug 22, 2024

Fahrenheit Advisors hires Hampton Roads leader

Richmond consulting firm Fahrenheit Advisors has hired Stephen Hoy as managing director of business development for the Hampton Roads area, the company announced Monday.  Hoy will develop new relationships and support existing clients from Williamsburg to Virginia Beach.  Most recently, Hoy was director of sales and strategic partnerships for Strive, a California company that offers […]

KRISTIN BAUM
Jun 27, 2024

KRISTIN BAUM

Kristin Baum has always been fascinated by the idea that things and places have a history. While antiquing with her mother, she’d contemplate how a prior owner used an item she found. That ability to see the world through another perspective has proven valuable in her career as an architect. Once, while designing a building […]

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Jun 14, 2024

Lester Group acquires Williamsburg building supply company

The Lester Group, a Martinsville-based company with a diverse portfolio including lumber products and real estate development, acquired Williamsburg-based Custom Builder Supply on June 3, the company announced earlier in June. Lester Group CEO Jay Dickens declined to release financial terms of the deal. Randy Cooper founded Custom Builder Supply in 1988 and worked there […]

DeVore. Photo courtesy Kaufman & Canoles
May 28, 2024

Kaufman & Canoles names Williamsburg managing partner

Dustin H. DeVore has been named managing partner of Kaufman & Canoles’ Williamsburg office, effective May 21, the law firm announced. DeVore joined Kaufman & Canoles in 2002 and chairs the firm’s lender representation practice group and the firm’s credit union team. Outside the firm, he serves on the board of directors of the Greater […]

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