Every year, Virginia enjoys a four day sales tax holiday on different items and supplies. It always falls on the Friday (through the weekend) of the second Monday in October. This year, it will fall on Friday October 8 – Monday October 11, 2010. This is a great time to make some EnergyStar purchases if you’ve been considering updating the
Coming up this Sunday- is the second annual Cville Pie Fest! A free event, fun for the whole family, and in support of a great cause. First devised in 2009, by a handful of social media gurus tweeting, chatting, and blogging about how fun it would be to have a pie competition, this has now become an annual event celebrated
From the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce September 30 ChamberBits Newsletter; “Darden Ranks #7 in The Nation for Entrepreneurship The 2010 Princeton Review Ranking for Entrepreneur Magazine places Darden in the top of the class for graduate studies. Over $1 Million in entrepreneurship scholarships awarded annually; recently unveiled i.Lab rooted in multi-disciplinary thinking. Academics complemented by unwavering commitment to experience-based
It’s right around this time of the year that I start seeing people mentioning a bunch of creepy looking brown bugs infesting their homes in Charlottesville. Welcome… the Stink Bug! Appearance I always describe the stink bug as a little brown bug that looks prehistoric and/or armored and ready to go into battle. These guys are creepy. Every fall they
Don’t miss an incredible opportunity to try 10 of Virginia’s best wineries in a one-of-a-kind location – Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of the Independence and third president of the United States. Jefferson is considered America’s first distinguished viticulturist and was the wine consultant for other founding fathers including Washington, Monroe and Madison. For the first
