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Mary Baldwin expands, refocuses MBA program
Nonprofit management, health care administration among concentrations
Mary Baldwin University has redesigned and expanded its MBA program, the Staunton-based private university announced this week. It will include four concentrations, including health care administration and nonprofit management, as well as strategic management (improving operations through systems or organizational change) and sustainable enterprise (how to launch a new social or environmentally focused business). Previously,
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Valley poultry plants see less virus testing
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After a fast-growing COVID-19 outbreak started in Eastern Shore poultry processing plants in April, state and federal health officials mobilized quickly, conducting plantwide and community testing within days. More than 980 cases and 13 deaths were recorded in Accomack County by early June. The story’s been very different in Rockingham County and Harrisonburg, which are
Hershey announces $135M Augusta County expansion
The chocolate producer invested $104M last May
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The Hershey Co. will invest $135 million to expand its manufacturing operation in Augusta County, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Tuesday. The 90,000-square-foot expansion of the Stuarts Draft facility will create 110 jobs. Hershey Chocolate of Virginia Inc. has operated in Augusta County for more than 30 years, employing more than 1,000 workers. The Augusta County
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Two retail spaces in Harrisonburg sell for $5.25M
Tenants include Starbucks, Potbelly and Sleep Number
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Two retail spaces in a Harrisonburg shopping center have sold for a total of $5.25 million, Harrisonburg-based commercial real estate brokerage Cottonwood Commercial announced Monday. The 2,500-square-foot Starbucks unit and a 5,000-square foot unit occupied by Potbelly Sandwich Shop and Sleep Number, a bedding store, were purchased by Zag Properties Inc. from 1756 EM LLC.
JMU leaders want Confederate names removed from buildings
University said it will continue, however, to bear name of James Madison despite slave ownership
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James Madison University announced Monday that university leadership is asking the JMU Board of Visitors to rename three campus buildings on its Quad that are named for Confederate leaders Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Col. Turner Ashby Jr. and Matthew Fontaine Maury. “We recognize that these building names are a painful reminder of a history of oppression,
Virginia gets new digits
SCC assigns new 826 area code to 540 region
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On Wednesday, the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) announced that the North American Numbering Plan Administrator has assigned a new area code, 826, to relieve future exhaustion of the 540 area code, which is expected to occur in 2022. Residents and businesses in the affected region will not lose their existing 540 phone numbers under
Eastern Mennonite University president to serve second term
Susan Schultz Huxman will serve as president through 2025
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Eastern Mennonite University President Susan Schultz Huxman has been appointed to a second five-year term, the Harrisonburg-based private liberal arts university announced Tuesday. Huxman began her first term on Jan. 1, 2017. The university board of trustees unanimously approved the appointment, which will be effective Oct. 1 through Sept. 30, 2025. Her presidential and board
Va. Economic Developers Assoc. announces award recipients
Harrisonburg, Pittsylvania County, Danville and Southern Virginia Regional Alliance recognized
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The Virginia Economic Developers Association (VEDA) announced Tuesday the recipients of its 2020 Community Economic Development Awards (CEDA): the city of Harrisonburg for its Bricks & Clicks Initiative and a regional economic development collaboration among Pittsylvania County, Danville and the Southern Virginia Regional Alliance. CEDA awards are given to economic and community development projects and
Valley Health welcomes new president, CEO
Mark Nantz was most recently with Bon Secours Mercy Health.
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Winchester-based Valley Health welcomed new president and CEO Mark Nantz to the regional health care system on June 1. He succeeds previous president and CEO Mark Merrill, who held the position for 11 years. Nantz most previously was the chief administrative officer and Atlantic group president with Bon Secours Mercy Health. He has also held
Shenandoah University removes Byrd Jr.’s name from biz school
Late U.S. Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr. was key player in Massive Resistance
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Shenandoah University in Winchester announced Wednesday that its Board of Trustees has voted unanimously to remove the name of the late U.S. Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr. from its School of Business and board room. “At Shenandoah, we encourage the best, the brightest, the inspired, to come learn with us, in the spirit of equitable