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Longtime employee says goodbye to paper mill (Virginian-Pilot) Ralph Vincent Jr. was a third-generation worker at the International Paper mill outside Franklin. He had been there for more than 30 years. For him and over 50 others, Friday was the final day on the job. Loyalty takes butler from poor Nepal village to NY (AP)… Read more »

SportsQuest Deals: Buy Now or Pay Later? (Style Weekly) Gesturing dramatically and intoning a tried-and-true sales strategy, Steve Burton, chief executive of SportsQuest, convinced the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors to cough up $4.3 million to lease nine synthetic turf fields and other facilities that are part of a planned, $250 million sports complex near… Read more »

An entrepreneur says his late-night shuttle service has inspired some local taxi drivers to threaten him and his drivers.

A handful of well known figures from politics and sports are in Richmond today for a mega motivational seminar at the Richmond Coliseum. Can someone explain this to me?

The fertilizer application business is the biggest growth area for Herod Seeds because municipalities don’t want to let the quality of their turf suffer even though they have severe budget shortfalls.

Magnolia Green has new project manager (Times-Dispatch) Magnolia Green, a planned resort-style community in Chesterfield County, is getting a jump-start after the development went into foreclosure last year. Millions of dollars at stake in bluefin tuna battle (Virginian-Pilot) There have been thousands of bluefin off the coast of northeast North Carolina since mid-February. But unless… Read more »

Recycling company to build South Richmond plant (Times-Dispatch) Cephas Industries is building the $6 million plant, which will be financed by $3.5 million in facility bonds obtained through the federal government’s economic stimulus package. Regulators deemed Bank of the Commonwealth ‘troubled’ (Virginian-Pilot) Commonwealth Bankshares Inc., based in Norfolk, suffered heavy losses last year from a… Read more »

It wasn’t opening day, but if Thursday’s coming out party for the Flying Squirrels’ team mascot was any indication then Richmonders can’t wait for the first pitch.

McAuliffe bids to buy Franklin mill (Times-Dispatch) Terry McAuliffe, an unsuccessful candidate for governor in 2009, is in the running again — this time, to buy a soon-to-close Southside paper factory he wants to convert to a wood-fired power plant. McAuliffe and other investors are pitching to International Paper Co. to purchase the firm’s giant… Read more »