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• Courses taking on 'dead-end' stigma07/03/08
• Germanna Community College will be offering a certificate in industrial maintenance technology in effort to serve the workforce needs of the Greater Fredericksburg Region...

• Dominion reactor proposal leads pack07/02/08
• Dominion chief says he'd like to see new reactor at North Anna by 2016

• Regional Economy Has a Split Personality07/02/08
• Contract Jobs Grow, Yet Energy Rates Inflict Pain throughout Greater Washington economy including the Fredericksburg Region...

• Message to businesses:We want you to stay PEOPLE TO CALL06/05/08
• Region reaching out to existing businesses to boost economy

• Powertrain won't be hurt by GM move06/05/08
• GM's latest closings won't affect local GM Powertrain in Spotsylvania County, which may be getting more work

• Real estate firms push into Fredericksburg: New Commercial Hotspot?06/04/08
• Fredericksburg is probably best known as a gateway to Washington, D.C. But this small city is quickly becoming a strategic commercial destination in its own right (cont'd)..

• New Fredericksburg bank aiming for a July opening05/31/08
• After spending almost 15 months organizing and preparing about 200 pounds of application materials, Virginia Partners Bank is drawing close to opening day.

• Our best selling point: Proximity05/23/08
• The Fredericksburg region's proximity to major metropolitan areas should shield it from a tourism downturn this summer

• Businesses in running for windfall from event Comparing the races By the numbers05/22/08
• Region's economic development officials expect to reap benefits from Historic Half

• Stafford in 2028: Bullish forecast05/22/08
• Vision for Stafford County in 2028 detailed at business appreciation lunch

• Economist predicts a short downturn05/22/08
• Economic signs show the United States is on the verge of a recession, but it would be brief if it occurred

• Initiative aims to foster leadership05/22/08
• Regional Chamber of Commerce hosts inaugural "Leadership Fredericksburg" course

• STATE WEATHERS RECESSIONS WELL04/30/08
• Sometime in the second half of this year, experts probably will tell us what we suspect already: We're in a recession. The good news: We're in Virginia, and the Old Dominion handles recessions pretty well.

• Weak dollar's strong suit: It brings jobs04/17/08
• Union workers at a big engine-maker, angry about production moving overseas, want the nation's political leaders to put the brakes on corporate outsourcing. It's a familiar story, except the workers hail from a Rolls-Royce plant in England, and their

• Survey: CEO confidence at lowest level since 200004/17/08
• CEO confidence is on the decline this year.

• VSE buys G&B Solutions04/14/08
• Alexandria-based VSE Corp (NASDAQ: VSEC) with operations in Caroline County, has purchased G&B Solutions Inc. in a deal worth as much as $23.7 million...

• Report: Hospital impact at $1.9 trillion04/09/08
• American hospitals support nearly $1.9 trillion in economic activity, according to a report from the American Hospital Association...

• Region's technology sector No. 2 in nation04/02/08
• Technology companies in Virginia, Maryland and the District employed 471,900 people in 2006, according to a new study from AeA.

• INCOME, STARTUPS, COMMERCIAL SPACE ROSE IN 200704/02/08
• Median income, the number of startup companies and available commercial space all increased in Spotsylvania County last year.

• Salaries jump for security-cleared technology jobs03/26/08
• For information technology professionals, it pays handsomely to have a government security clearance, with salaries averaging 22 percent more than IT workers in jobs that don't require security clearance.

• Union, Prosperity merge03/19/08
• Union Bank & Trust merges with Prosperity Bank & Trust

• Hospital campus is focus of construction activity03/16/08
• More parking for the emergency room, new medical office buildings and new retail outlets are included in the development now taking place at Mary Washington Hospital.

• A retail upsurge for King George?03/13/08
• Retail shopping in the works for K.G.

• Economist predicts tumultuous year for construction03/10/08
• Nonresidential construction faces a wide variance in demand, materials cost and labor availability, according to the Construction Inflation Alert released Monday by the Associated General Contractors of America.

• Statistically,we're off the map03/10/08
• Why isn't the Fredericksburg Region a Metropolitan Statistical Area?

• Business property assessed higher03/10/08
• Assessments for commercial property shot up in both Stafford and Spotsylvania counties this year.

• Defense event returns to Stafford next year03/08/08
• Stafford Regional Airport has been chosen to host next year's Force Protection Equipment Demonstration, a Defense Department event that brought millions of dollars into the Fredericksburg region its first time here.

• US Job Market Takes a Hit From Weak Economy03/07/08
• The jobs report, from the Labor Department, indicated that the nation had 63,000 fewer net jobs in February than in January, the second straight month of job losses and the worst monthly performance since 2003.

• THALHIMER MERGES WITH SULLIVAN PROPERTIES03/06/08
• RICHMOND, VIRGINIA – March, 2008: Richmond-headquartered Thalhimer/Cushman & Wakefield Alliance, Virginia’s leading commercial real estate company, with offices in Richmond, Virginia Beach and Newport News, formed a joint venture with Sullivan Prope

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