An aging Roanoke Valley hotel has closed for renovations. The former Airport Plaza Hotel will reemerge later this year as a budget-priced establishment called Spark under the Hilton umbrella, according to Kalyan Hospitality of Glen Allen. Kalyan’s project manager Cedric Johnson said he immediately closed the establishment upon its purchase in October. Two of its … Read more
Bismarck Public Schools went on the offensive last week before the Class AA Boys and Girls State Basketball Tournament in Bismarck. It issued a statement urging respectful fan behavior at sporting events. The statement was prompted by recent reports in the state of racial harassment of players. The North Dakota High School Activities Association has … Read more
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Missouri Southern’s Board of Governors voted unanimously on Friday to name the future Health Sciences Innovation Center after former U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt. Construction is slated to start in April on the center, which will be built on the Oval on the MSSU campus. Blunt is a former senator, U.S. representative, Missouri secretary of state, … Read more
The Warren County Department of Public Works (DPW) will implement advanced technology to monitor road conditions and stay ahead of the winter weather. In December, “the DPW installed a series of roadside cameras and sensors that plow truck operators can access via cell phone application to monitor conditions on 14 major county roads from Queensbury … Read more
FLOYD COUNTY — A new Floyd County health board will begin in January. At last Tuesday’s meeting, Floyd County Commissioners named five appointments to a new Floyd County Board of Health. The current board of directors for the Floyd County Health Department will be dissolved on Jan. 1 as the new board begins. The commissioner’s … Read more
MISSOULA, Mont. — An hour before sunrise, Shelly Brost walked a mile in freezing rain to the public assistance office. She was running out of time to prove she still qualified for food aid after being stymied by a backlogged state call center. Twice, she’d tried to use Montana’s public assistance help line to complete … Read more
FORT WAYNE — The Community Foundation of Noble County is pleased to be an Ignite Your Future Program grant recipient of the Don Wood Foundation. The Don Wood Foundation created the Ignite Your Future Program to grow and strengthen advanced manufacturing and entrepreneurship in northeast Indiana and beyond. The Don Wood Foundation invited community foundations … Read more
BOSTON — State spending rose at “breakneck speed” over the last five years, according to business leaders who are calling on Beacon Hill Democrats to slam the brakes on the rate of new expenditures and use the tax code to make Massachusetts more competitive. “The drastic increase in government spending over the past five years … Read more
Still reeling from the controversial closure of Leominster Hospital’s maternity ward, some maternal health care advocates say a new state report stops short of providing a clear strategy to halt the closure of additional facilities in Massachusetts. Meanwhile, midwives are applauding the Department of Public Health’s recommendations to update birth center regulations, as they see … Read more