Citizens Community Bank elects new chairman
Alfred D. "Denny" Hardee succeeds the bank’s organizing chairman, Raymond T. Arnold
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• Appalachian Power’s parent reports flat earnings in first quarter
• Pittsylvania split over economic development
Alfred D. "Denny" Hardee succeeds the bank’s organizing chairman, Raymond T. Arnold
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• Appalachian Power’s parent reports flat earnings in first quarter
• Pittsylvania split over economic development
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December 29, 2010 6:20 AM
The Martinsville-based New College Institute (NCI) was established in 2006 with the goal of becoming a freestanding institution that could provide higher education to Southern Virginia residents.
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Danville again makes list of ‘smart’ places
November 29, 2010 6:00 AM
For the second year in a row, Danville is one of 21 communities across the globe named to a list of the world’s Smart21 Communities.
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Danville project helps existing businesses
October 28, 2010 6:00 AM
The Danville Office of Economic Development is promoting through its newly branded READI program.
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Microsoft deal seen as a coup for the region
September 28, 2010 6:00 AM
Microsoft Corp. will invest up to $499 million to locate its most advanced data center in the Boydton Industrial Park in Mecklenburg County.
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Community center helps retrain workers
August 30, 2010 6:00 AM
Estes Community Center in Chase City has helped put more than 700 people back to work, thanks to a partnership with Southside Virginia Community College.
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Grant expected to help sell industrial lots
July 28, 2010 6:00 AM
The Danville-Pittsylvania Regional Industrial Facility Authority has received a $2.27 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to grade and ready two lots — one 33 acres and the other 64 acres — in the Cane Creek Centre industrial park.
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Area’s furniture factories suffer blows
July 01, 2010 6:00 AM
American of Martinsville and its sister company, Barcalounger, closed its local furniture factory, resulting in the loss of more than 225 factory jobs. Then, Stanley Furniture announced that it would send its manufacturing operations overseas, which means that 530 workers will be laid off by year’s end.
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EcomNets to make ‘green’ PCs in Danville
May 28, 2010 6:00 AM
EcomNets will begin manufacturing a “green” PC.
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Proposal sparks health-care controversy
April 28, 2010 6:00 AM
Centra Health proposes to build a 27,000-square-foot ambulatory surgery center in Danville.
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Martinsville gets grant to power up with methane
March 29, 2010 11:04 AM
Martinsville received a $1 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) State Energy program grant to help it pay for a $3.3 million electric power project.
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