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Huge Virginia Christmas market canceled days before it was scheduled to open

Virginia · 5h

familydestinationsguide.com

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Virginia’s Most Affordable City Has A Rock-Bottom Cost Of Living And Homes Around $150,000

Most cities in Virginia will take one look at your housing budget and laugh, but Danville will pull up a chair and ask how soon you can move in. Danville, Virginia is the kind of place that makes you recalibrate your assumptions about what’s possible, sitting quietly along the Dan River in the southern part of the state with home prices around $150,000 and a cost of living that makes the rest of Virginia look like it’s showing off.

Danville, VA · 1d
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Move To This Overlooked Virginia Town And Live Well On Just $1,300 A Month

Emporia, Virginia has been sitting quietly in the southern part of the state, minding its own business, while the rest of the country has been losing its mind over the cost of living. And honestly, Emporia has been doing just fine. This is a city that doesn’t show up on...

Emporia, VA · 4d
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Families push back against proposed Dominion Energy Transmission Line Project

APPOMATTOX COUNTY, Va. (WSET) — As families in Appomattox County come to terms with a proposed data center and a separate transmission line project, more families are now raising concerns as Dominion Energy is looking to build another transmission line project in the county. Dominion Energy is proposing the...

Appomattox County, VA · 15h
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Christmas Market at New Dulles Expo Center Is Canceled

Bad news for holiday shoppers: The 33rd annual Northern Virginia Christmas Market planned for November 6 to 8 at the new Dulles Town Center expo space is canceled. The market’s events management group posted the update on Facebook. “Dulles Town Center management informed us today that the venue will not have the required permits in time to host our event,” the post says. “We are deeply disappointed, as we know many of you looked forward to shopping with our talented artisans this weekend.”

Virginia · 2d

wvtf.org

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Salmonella shut down a small Virginia estuary to shellfish harvesting, but all oyster farmers are feeling the pain

In early October, the state closed an estuary in the Northern Neck to shellfish harvesting after people from Virginia to Colorado were sickened by a rare form of salmonella. It was traced to raw oysters sold from September 18 to October 8, by a single company in Virginia. Last Friday, a person from Delaware was added to the list of 28 people and 14 states.

Virginia · 3d

mindfullyamerican.com

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12 Things That Make Northern Virginia and the Rest of Virginia Feel Like Different States

Northern Virginia is the largest data center market in the world, which is a lot of servers for one corner of one state. Drive to Buchanan County in the southwest, and fewer households have broadband and more of your neighbors are 65 or older. Here’s how Northern Virginia compares with...

Virginia · 5d

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Groundbreaking held for $36 million affordable housing development in Waynesboro

WAYNESBORO, VA (Rocktown Now) — Construction is moving forward on a $36 million affordable housing development in Waynesboro that will bring 96 new apartments to the city. Enterprise Community Development joined Waynesboro Mayor Kenny Lee, state and local officials, business leaders and community members Thursday for the groundbreaking ceremony at 1030 Alston Court.

Waynesboro, VA · 1d

GCN.com

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A Virginia utility fuel bill climbed 152 percent to $4.4 billion in five years, and regulators let it spread $922 million of that gap across seven years of monthly charges

A single line on a Virginia power bill, the one marked fuel, usually changes by pocket change from month to month. State regulators just approved a plan to spread an enormous shortfall across years of future charges instead of collecting it all at once. The gap did not come from...

Virginia · 12h

Cardinal News

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Appalachian Power asks to charge customers for nuclear reactor site development

If the request is approved, the average residential customer's monthly bill would rise by $1.98 for a year. The post Appalachian Power asks to charge customers for nuclear reactor site development appeared first on Cardinal News .

Campbell County, VA · 1d

crozetgazette.com

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Veritas Welcomes New Leadership Including Globe-Trotting CEO

Andy Murphy, named CEO of Afton’s Veritas Vineyard & Winery in September, lives by what he calls “planned serendipity.”. “One of the through lines in my story is I just happened to have shown up in places where there were some crazy wild entrepreneurs that needed help,” Murphy remembered, sitting outside the winery’s tasting room as the team prepared for its last wedding of the year.

Afton, VA · 8h

The Cool Down

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Hungry cattle escape fences for roadside grass as Virginia drought leaves farms short on feed

Ralph Morton, a third-generation farmer, harvested only about one-third of his normal first hay crop.

Virginia · 2d

WTVR CBS 6

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Packed SCC hearing draws strong opinions over proposed Energy merger

A packed room of Virginians voiced strong opinions Thursday over the proposed $67 billion merger between Dominion Energy and NextEra Energy, as state regulators heard directly from the public.

Virginia · 1d

rocktownnow.com

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Virginia oyster farms devastated by “Mahogany Tide”

Virginia’s oyster industry is reeling from millions of dollars in losses after a widespread harmful algae bloom, known as a “Mahogany Tide,” swept through portions of the Chesapeake Bay this summer. Watermen and aquaculture producers report that the rust-colored bloom caused significant oyster mortality, with estimates placing...

Virginia · 2d

Moneywise

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Virginia school cook, 64, skips meals and sits in the dark to save money — now her utility wants a 23% rate hike

Sherry Parsons is one of thousands of Virginia residents faced with electricity bill increases they can’t afford.

Virginia · 12h

jeffersonindependent.com

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All Flash, No Fuse: The Emptiness of Spanberger’s Energy Posturing

On May 18th, Virginia’s own Dominion Energy and Florida-based NextEra Energy announced their intention to merge. The proposed $67 billion deal between the two utility providers would be a defining moment in Virginia’s economic transformation and change the scope of the Commonwealth’s capacity for future development. If approved, the deal will create the largest regulated utility company in the world, fundamentally altering who controls the power flowing into Virginia homes and businesses, and bringing market interconnectivity to Virginia at an unprecedented scale.

Virginia · 1d

Lovely Garden Roots

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Young Spinach Can Handle 15 to 20 Degrees, and Penn State Master Gardeners Say a Plastic Cover Can Stretch the Harvest Into Late Fall

Penn State says young spinach tolerates 15 to 20 degrees and a plastic cover can keep harvests going into late fall. Here is how growers stretch the season.

Virginia · 1d

thecreditunionconnection.com

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Two Credit Union Associations Vote to Merge, Creating a 458-Member Network Across Six Regions

Say you run a mid-sized credit union in Richmond, and you’ve spent years wishing your trade association had more muscle when regulators or legislators come calling. Or maybe you’re in Mobile, wondering why peer connections seem to stop at the state line. A newly approved merger is aimed squarely at both problems.

Florida · 4d

nationalfisherman.com

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Maine, Virginia fishermen unite against further menhaden quota cuts

Commercial fishermen from Maine and Virginia are calling on fisheries managers to maintain the Atlantic menhaden quota for 2027, arguing that additional reductions could threaten fishing families and coastal communities that depend on the species. In a new video produced by the New England Fishermen's Stewardship Association (NEFSA), Maine fishermen...

Virginia · 8h

Elizabethton Star

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Ballad Health, UnitedHealthcare reach new multiyear agreement

Ballad Health and UnitedHealthcare have finalized a new multiyear agreement that will allow individuals enrolled in UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage individual and group retiree plans to maintain access to Ballad Health […]

Tennessee · 13h