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Va. LISC, Chesterfield County announce small business relief fund
LISC Virginia and Chesterfield County announced Tuesday the launch of the $250,000 Chesterfield County Microenterprise Relief Fund, which will provide small businesses with five or fewer employees grants of up to $10,000 for COVID-19 relief. Funding can be used to pay for payroll, rent, utilities, vendor bills and other COVID-19-related expenses. Applications opened Monday at […]
Virginia is ‘ready’ to distribute COVID-19 vaccine, governor says
Gov. Ralph Northam and State Health Commissioner Dr. Norman Oliver said Tuesday that Virginia will be ready to launch a vaccination program as soon as a COVID-19 vaccine has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Oliver said that he is encouraged by Pfizer’s announcement this week that its COVID vaccine un[...]
Tazewell County directs $363K in CARES funding to Carilion Clinic
As Southwest Virginia continues to see a spike in COVID-19 cases, the Tazewell County Board of Supervisors announced Tuesday it is allocating $363,000 in federal CARES Act funding to Roanoke-based Carilion Clinic to be used to expand telemedicine and COVID-19 testing, as well as to improve access to primary care and specialty care services. “The […]
Kings Dominion to make holiday season comeback
Making a brief comeback before the end of 2020, Kings Dominion will reopen in December for a limited-time, limited-capacity holiday event after being closed for an entire summer season for the first time in its 45-year history, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Owned and operated by Cedar Fair Entertainment Co., the amusement park i[...]
CarLotz names chief commercial officer, general counsel
Chesterfield County-based CarLotz Inc., a consignment dealer of used cars, announced Tuesday it has hired Becca Polak as the company’s inaugural chief commercial officer and general counsel, effective Oct. 30. Polak joins CarLotz — which in late October announced plans to go public and expand nationwide — from Carmel, In[...]
ODU Strome College of Business to host corporate governance conference
Old Dominion University’s Strome College of Business will host its sixth annual Conference of the International Corporate Governance Society from Nov. 13 to Nov. 15, its Department of Management and Entrepreneurship announced Tuesday. The conference will include a forum for international academics, practitioners and doctoral students to showcase and discuss corporate governance research findings. Conference […][...]
$60M directed to municipal utility relief
While some Virginians fear power and water shutoffs during the pandemic, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Monday that an additional $60 million in federal CARES Act funding will go toward municipal utility relief efforts. “These are challenging times for Virginia families and businesses, and we remain committed to helping them keep the electricity on and the […]
$22M in CARES Act funding directed to Va. private colleges
Virginia’s private higher education institutions will receive $22 million in federal CARES Act funding for COVID-19 preparedness and response, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Monday. In late October, $116 million was allocated to Virginia’s public higher education institutions — with today’s allocation proportionate to the public school funding, according to Northam’s office. “Like public colleges and […][...]
McLean health tech firm names senior VP, corporate strategy
McLean-based health information technology provider CNSI announced Monday it has hired Verlon Johnson as senior vice president of corporate strategy. Johnson was most recently the vice president of health care policy and program management for IBM Watson Health’s Government Health and Human Services business group. In her ne[...]
Peraton lands $950M Air Force contract
The U.S. Air Force awarded Herndon-based national security contractor Peraton a $950 million contract to provide services in support of the branch’s Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), a component of the Department of Defense’s Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) effort, the company announced Monday. Under the contract, Peraton will provide services including open […]
Hampton Roads operator of Downtown and Midtown tunnels sold in $2B+ deal
Elizabeth River Crossings HoldCo LLC, the operator of the Downtown and Midtown tunnels that run between Norfolk and Portsmouth, has been sold to Abertis Infraestructuras S.A. and Manulife Investment Management Ltd., on behalf of John Hancock Life Insurance Co., for more than $2 billion. Elizabeth River Crossings operates four tu[...]
Driven by SW Va., state’s COVID-19 rate rises to 6.1%
Virginia’s number of COVID-19 cases jumped by more than 10,000 last week, bringing the state’s positivity rate to 6.1%, up from 5.8% on Nov. 2, according to the Virginia Department of Health’s report Monday, Nov. 9. The sharpest increases have been seen in the Roanoke region and Southwest Virginia, where neighboring states also have seen […]
