100 Year Old Petersburg Company Closing?

According the this story from Channel 6, Roper Lumber is closing a number of its location two weeks before Christmas.  If you read the comments attached it looks like the company may have declared bankruptcy – wonder if that means the Petersburg location will also be affected.  From some of the comments, there are very [...]

Local Group Raising Concerns over Ft. Lee ‘Mega’ Hotel

When members of the Tri-Cities hospitality industry learned about Fort Lee’s plan to build a mega-hotel, they reached out to one another.

The official announcement of the $114 million project — a 1,000-room, 15-story building on 26 acres on base — came as such a shock to some business leaders that they quickly organized to contest [...]

Luxury Car Maker Bringing Jobs to Local Area

Rolls-Royce has begun construction in southern Virginia on what will be its biggest manufacturing facility in North America.

The facility, called Crosspointe, is the first Rolls-Royce manufacturing facility built from the ground up in the U.S.

Rolls-Royce will initially invest $170 million in the 1,000-acre project, but says that will go as high as $500 million eventually.

The [...]

Local Resident in the News

Kimberly Ann Calos of Old Towne Kimberly Ann’s and Prince George Realty was mentioned in an article in today’s Richmond Times Dispatch.  From the article, I’m not sure if she is actually going out of business or if it is more of one of those ‘Haynes Last Days’ kinda Going Out of Business Sales.

“People think [...]

Angel Food Ministries – Blessings by the Box

I JUST heard about this organization and was so moved by what they are doing that I had to share it.  Angel Food Ministries provides grocery assistance to communities throughout the United States.  Generally, one unit of food ($30) assists in feeding a family of four for about one week or a single senior citizen for almost a [...]