A team from James Madison University took top honors in the Americas region for the Google Online Marketing Challenge, which involved 35,000 students from 95 countries. Students were tasked with recruiting a small business with a website and creating a Google Adwords marketing campaign for it. The JMU team won for its work with SOS Advertising, a Harrisonburg-based provider of customized promotional products. (News release)
LewisGale Hospital Alleghany, a health-care provider in Low Moor, opened a 15-bed inpatient geriatric psychiatric center for seniors 65 and older. The center will focus on memory issues, mood disorders and psychotic disorders. (The Roanoke Times)
Munsters, a manufacturer of heating and air-conditioning products, will hire a number of permanent and part-time positions at its Buena Vista plant. The work will be for the facility’s largest order ever, a $10 million contract for 22 custom air-handling units for the data center of an unnamed technology company. (The Roanoke Times)
NTelos Holdings Corp., a Waynesboro telecommunications company, was expected to spin off off its wireline and FiberNet businesses into a new company called Lumos Networks Corp. at the end of the third quarter. The company’s wireless business continues to operate as nTelos. (News Leader)
Secure Futures LLC, of Staunton, received a contract from Washington and Lee University to install solar systems in two locations on the campus. The project will produce 450 kilowatts of electricity, making it the largest solar project in Virginia. (News Leader)
StrongPoint Capital LLC, a Woodstock-based ATM provider, has been awarded a contract as part of a new public-private partnership designed to enhance traveler services at the state’s rest areas and welcome centers. The company is one of three firms that will partner with lead contractor CRH Catering Co. Inc., of Connellsville, Pa. (Northern Virginia Daily)
Waynesboro recently received six grants totaling $1.3 million. Among the new funds are a $770,000 Community Block Development Grant for downtown revitalization and $320,000 from the Department of Transportation for planning and partial construction of a 1.2 mile portion of the city’s greenway. (The News Virginian)
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