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Horners saw ‘immediate potential’ in southwest Virginia
Delmarva Farmer - Maryland
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August 29, 2025
Rebekah and Grant Horner, with son Roane, moved to a 50-acre farm in Southwest Virginia in 2024, a second expansion of their operation. (Photo courtesy Rebekah Horner) PULASKI, Va. — Rebekah Horner said she always knew she wanted a career working...
Now ‘fixed,’ Jonny Farmelo hopes for healthy future
Herald - Washington State
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August 29, 2025
EVERETT — Jonny Farmelo felt the stabbing pain as soon as he swung the bat. The 20-year-old Everett AquaSox outfielder thought he did something to his oblique, as he struggled to breathe. Playing as the designated hitter for Everett against the...
UVa hospital CEO Wendy Horton to resign
The Daily Progress - Virginia
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Wendy Horton, CEO of the University of Virginia Medical Center, is leaving the flagship hospital of the UVa Health System. Her exit means that in less than five months all three of UVa Health’s top executives have announced their departures,...
UVa names interim dean of medical school
The Daily Progress - Virginia
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The University of Virginia has appointed an interim dean to head its school of medicine in the wake of Dr. Melina Kibbe's resignation after she faced accusations of criminal and unethical wrongdoing. Dr. Colin Derdeyn, chair of the UVa Health...
High School Abortion Scandal Sends Tremors Through Virginia Governor’s Race
WMAL - Washington D.C.
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August 29, 2025
Seth McLaughlin | August 29, 2025 (The Washington Times) — Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears is borrowing a page from Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s campaign playbook by leaning into parental rights to take some of the wind out of Democrat Rep....
LOOKING BACK: Raiford Hospital expands
The Tidewater News - Virginia
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August 29, 2025
Published 9:00 am Friday, August 29, 2025 Eighty years ago, the Aug. 24, 1945, edition of The Tidewater News reported on the opening of the expanded Raiford Hospital. A thirty-four-bed annex to the existing hospital was nearing completion and was...
Democracy Circle RVA to host healthcare town hall Sept. 6 in Henrico
Henrico Citizen - Virginia
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Democracy Circle RVA, a community organization, will host a healthcare town hall meeting at Twin Hickory Library Sept. 6 at 10:30 a.m. The organization aims to raise awareness about the effects it believes some Virginia families and communities...
Highly Profitable Outpatient Pediatric Speech Therapy Practice Based Virginia
DOTmed
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Embattled UVa Medical School dean stepping down
The Daily Progress - Virginia
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Four months after a resignation letter in her name was deemed a hoax and nine months after 128 health care professionals at the University of Virginia penned a letter of no confidence in her leadership, UVa School of Medicine Dean Dr. Melina Kibbe...
Orthoatlanta Named Official Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Partner Of The 2025 Aflac Kickoff Games
MENAFN
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August 29, 2025
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) ATLANTA, Aug. 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- OrthoAtlanta , part of Piedmont Orthopedics, proudly announces its continued role as the official orthopedic and sports medicine partner of the 2025 Aflac Kickoff Games . This marks...
Virginia Board of Health to ban trans women from women's sports
The Daily Progress - Virginia
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Virginia’s Board of Health has voted to write a new regulation that would ban transgender women from competing on women’s sports teams. On Monday, the 15-member board voted unanimously to accept a petition from three athletes asking the Virginia...
Walk your way to better health and happiness
The Arabian Stories
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August 29, 2025
In a world obsessed with high-intensity workouts, gym memberships, fitness gadgets, and performance tracking apps, walking often gets dismissed as too basic to be taken seriously. But this humble activity, something most of us do without a second...
Central Virginia environmental pioneer struck, killed by car
The Daily Progress - Virginia
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An environmental pioneer and former Orange resident who cleaned miles of local rivers recently died after he was struck and killed by a car while assisting a stranded motorist in Greene County last month. “It is with deep sadness that American...
Pharma giant AstraZeneca to construct multibillion-dollar plant in Albemarle
The Daily Progress - Virginia
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Virginia lawmakers have approved two proposed economic development packages for advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing plants proposed by AstraZeneca in Albemarle County and Eli Lilly & Co. in Goochland County, according to multiple state sources....
Eco-tourism project, affordable veterinary clinic among Southwest Virginia projects receiving abandoned mine land grants
Cardinal News - Virginia
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August 29, 2025
An eco-tourism resort and residential development in Tazewell County and a veterinary clinic in Wise County that will offer affordable animal care to lower-income residents are among five Southwest Virginia projects that will receive a total of...
Matchup breakdowns: Coastal Carolina at Virginia
The Daily Progress - Virginia
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A look at who has the edge at each position in Saturday's season opener between Virginia and Coastal Carolina. Quarterbacks Both programs are turning to new quarterbacks this season after each needed upgrading at the most important position on the...
Virginia's economic slowdown hasn't hit yet. But analysts say it's coming.
Richmond Times Dispatch - Virginia
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The economic slowdown expected to hit Virginia hasn’t occurred yet, as some industries have grown and the federal government has delayed some job cuts and tariffs. But Virginia isn’t out of the woods. Analysts at the Weldon Cooper Center at the...
Medical Campus sues again to stop McCarley Gardens expansion
Buffalo News - New York
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The Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus is trying once again – with the same arguments – to stop a developer’s proposal to build an affordable housing complex on the edge of the campus. Despite repeated court and administrative decisions against it,...
Housing is top issue for Virginia voters this election year, poll shows
The Roanoke Times - Virginia
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Housing is the top issue for voters in Virginia during this statewide election year, according to poll data published this week by affordability advocates. That may not be surprising in Roanoke, where government leaders have discussed for years...
Virginia's technology authority names new CEO
Richmond Times Dispatch - Virginia
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Activation Capital, the state authority that manages the VA Bio+Tech campus in downtown Richmond, named Michael Steele, a veteran of the medical technology industry, as its new CEO. Steele replaces Chandra Briggman, who left in a dispute last...