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• Stafford seeking shift to south STAFFORD NOT ALONE08/02/08
• Region's economic development efforts increasingly focused on Northern Virginia...

• Stafford firm gets $94M contract08/01/08
• BAE Systems, a large defense contractor and major employer in Stafford County, has won a $94 million contract to provide support to the U.S. Marine Corps.

• Northern Virginia unemployment jumps07/30/08
• Even Northern Virginia, considered one of the tightest labor markets in the nation, is seeing rising unemployment.

• Housing inventory better but not good07/24/08
• There are still many more houses available in the Fredericksburg area than people buying them, but the imbalance has improved every month this year.

• Supervisors get look at new hospital center07/24/08
• The Stafford Board of Supervisors got an early look at the new Stafford hospital...

• In spite of a weak economy, defense contractors thriving07/12/08
• THE SLUGGISH economy hasn't stopped defense contractors from moving into the Fredericksburg area.

• Doctors recruited for new hospitals07/12/08
• Building new hospitals in Stafford and Spotsylvania counties includes building their medical staffs

• New theater to offer digital, 3D and bowling07/12/08
• Muvico teams up with Frank Theatres to build new movie theater behind Spotsylvania Towne Centre

• Region's housing prices up in June07/11/08
• June was the best month of 2008 for the Fredericksburg-area housing market, but real estate sales significantly lagged compared with the same month in past years.

• Projects under way07/08/08
• The University of Mary Washington hopes to finish some on-campus improvements this summer but isn't close to calling it quits on construction.

• CNN.com " Archaeologists find remains of Washington's boyhood home"07/04/08
• FREDERICKSBURG, Virginia (CNN) -- After nearly three years of excavation, archaeologists have confirmed the discovery of the site of George Washington's boyhood home near the banks of the Rappahannock River in northeast Virginia.

• 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...

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