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The Ladies’ Bath House at The Omni Homestead Resort will again sport a domed roof, following renovations. Photo courtesy The Omni Homestead Resort
Jun 28, 2022

Bathhouses at Homestead to reopen soon

A painstaking restoration of the Warm Springs Pools will wrap up in time for The Omni Homestead Resort in Bath County to reopen one of America’s oldest spas by 2022’s end. Formerly called the Jefferson Pools, the spring-fed public baths have been closed since 2017. The resort had hoped to start work on the $3 […]

O’BRIEN
Jun 28, 2022

CONNIE CONNELLY O’BRIEN

Early in her career, a client at the ad agency where Connie Connelly O’Brien worked threatened to take their business to another firm. Determined to fix the situation, she spoke with the client and learned that they did not feel heard, and quickly offered a solution. “By really listening to the problem they were trying [&hel[...]

Laura Hayes Chalk, business development coordinator for the Virginia Beach Department of Economic Development Photo by Mark Rhodes
Jun 28, 2022

Incubator offers foothold for international firms

Minimal risk, long-term success. Chorus Intelligence Ltd., a British software company that sells products and services for law enforcement investigations, had these goals in mind when it set its sights on the U.S. sales market. With the help of a new Virginia Beach incubator focused on supporting international businesses, Chorus[...]

Jun 28, 2022

DeETTE GRAY

DeEtte Gray began her career as a middle school math and science teacher in the late 1990s. Her passion for STEM education eventually led to her role at CACI, where she’s involved in modernizing government agencies’ operations. “One of my great experiences was integrating computers into the science curriculum, making the c[...]

BAREFORD
Jun 28, 2022

BECKY BAREFORD

To become the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond’s chief operating officer, Becky Bareford had to embrace a paradox: She had to get “comfortable with being uncomfortable.” Her moments of greatest doubt also were her “greatest learning moments,” she says, and many learning moments later, she now oversees the bank’s $400[...]

TAYLOR
Jun 28, 2022

JENNIFER TAYLOR

Jennifer Taylor’s birthplace of Middletown, Ohio, is the backdrop of GOP U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance’s 2016 book “Hillbilly Elegy,” a memoir about growing class divisions in the Rust Belt. While Taylor now lives in Northern Virginia and leads one of the largest regional technology trade associations in the nation, s[...]

KARP
Jun 28, 2022

BRENDA ELLIOTT KARP

Brenda Elliott Karp is the first and only woman at The Breeden Co. in senior leadership devoted to real estate development partnerships. Being a woman in her industry is not easy, and Karp is determined to change that. To help level the playing field, Karp dedicates her life to mentoring women through the Commercial Real [&helli[...]

Horton
Jun 28, 2022

WENDY HORTON

In March 2020, Wendy Horton arrived at the University of Virginia Medical Center to start her new job as chief operating officer at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Seven months later, she became the teaching hospital’s CEO. At 43, she oversees a medical center with approximately 700 beds and 9,000 employees. She credit[...]

BECERRA
Jun 28, 2022

IRMA BECERRA

“Prepare, prepare, prepare. Persist, persist, persist.” That mantra has carried Becerra, whose family fled Fidel Castro’s Cuba for Puerto Rico when she was an infant, to the presidency of Marymount University. “From immigrant to university president in a lifetime” is an extraordinary story, but one that she credits in [...]

Vaughn
Jun 28, 2022

DENISE VAUGHN

Twelve years ago, Denise Vaughn was struggling to balance work with the demands of raising a family. She felt like she was failing at both, so she resigned to take a less demanding job. The news reached the CEO of Ferguson, and he called her. She sobbed as she told him why she felt she […]

Greer
Jun 28, 2022

LYNN CROWDER GREER

Lynn Crowder Greer has been instrumental in some of this country’s biggest legal mass claims resolutions. From 1990 to 2000, the attorney was part of the Dalkon Shield Claimants Trust, which obtained settlements for more than 200,000 women who had been injured by the contraceptive device produced by A.H. Robins Co., a Richmond[...]

Bernie Niemeier. Photo by Caroline Martin
Jun 28, 2022

Higher gas prices are needed

The U.S. inflation rate, which reached 8.6% in May, is at its highest point in 40 years. In 1982, it was just over 6%. Since then, the U.S. inflation rate has hovered mostly in the 2% to 4% range. The inflation rate is determined by changes in the cost of a fixed basket of 80,000 […]

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