Weekly Newsletter | July 5, 2018

Virginia State University Named Nation's Top HBCU

By Justin Mattingly | Richmond Times Dispatch | Full Article Virginia State University has been named the HBCU of the year. The university, located in Ettrick near petersburg, was named the HBCU of the Year last week by HBCU Digest, an online blog that reports on the news of HBCUs. The HBCU Awards is the only award program celebrating achievement at historically black colleges and universities in the U.S.

New Meadery in the Works in Hopewell

By John Reid Blackwell | Richmond Times-Dispatch | Full Article A beekeeping couple from Colonial Heights are planning to bring the ancient craft of making honey mead to downtown Hopewell. Mike and Tonya Haley plan to open Haley's Honey Meadery LLC this fall in a renovated commercial building at 235 E. Broadway Ave. in Hopewell. The Haleys have leased 1,200 square feet in the building, which is being renovated for a public tasting room. The tasting room, near the Beacon Theatre, will also have an outdoor patio. An adjacent space about the same size will house a production area for making mead.

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