James Hardie Building Products is expanding its Pulaski facility and adding 69 new jobs – Read (Roanoke Times)
Steve Jenkins
July 16, 2014
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Steve Jenkins
July 8, 2014
Roanoke residents look for temporary jobs at the Salem Fair. The Salem Fair employs dozens of locals each year. Read/Watch (WDBJ7)
Steve Jenkins
July 7, 2014
Cici’s Pizza in Towers Shopping Center closing. Read (WSLS)
Steve Jenkins
July 3, 2014
[Christy’s](http://www.christysapparel.com/) is leaving downtown Roanoke for [Towers Shopping Center](http://www.towersshoppingcenter.com/). The owner said the constant construction downtown was detrimental to the business. Read (Roanoke Times)
Steve Jenkins
July 3, 2014
The [Natural Bridge wax museum](http://www.naturalbridgewaxmuseum.org/) is closing. Read (Roanoke Times)
Steve Jenkins
July 3, 2014
[Exelis](http://www.exelisinc.com/business/NVCS/Pages/default.aspx “Exelis Night Vision and Communications Solutions”) to cut 60 jobs at its Roanoke County night vision plant, reducing the number of employees in Roanoke County to 425 from a high of 1,525 in 2009. Read (Roanoke Times)
Steve Jenkins
July 2, 2014
USPS plans to close the Roanoke mail processing facility as soon as January and move the operations to Greensboro. Approximately 400 jobs will be affected. Read (Roanoke Times)
Steve Jenkins
July 2, 2014
The first tenant for [“The Bridges”](http://bridgesroanoke.com/ “The Bridges”) redevelopment in Roanoke was [announced](http://wfirnews.com/local-news/first-tenant-for-the-bridges-redevelopment-announced “WFIR”). The tenant is [JDSU](http://www.jdsu.com “JDSU”), which will relocate from Salem where it has an R&D office.
Steve Jenkins
October 22, 2012
RT @WTOP: .@AARP ranks Morgantown, W. Va. & #Roanoke among top 10 cities to live on $100 a day – bit.ly/VjWJ9t #VA
This Week’s Roanoke/Lynchburg Sausser Farms Survey – 2010 July 15
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I’m not sure why, but I went ahead and filled out the Sausser Farms survey for this week. I’ll try again this Saturday. Maybe I’ll get some okra that I can use in a gumbo.
1,100 slated to lose jobs at Volvo truck plant in Dublin, VA
Citing a weak truck market and soft economy, Volvo Trucks North America announced it would slice employment at its Dublin plant by more than a third and reduce production at the facility to one shift.
The 1,100 people who will lose their jobs beginning the week of May 12 represent a significant increase from the number the company expected to shed when it first announced layoffs late last year. At that time, up to 650 people were expected to be laid off at the end of January.
[Read](http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/158618 “Read the Article”) (Roanoke Times)