American Bankers Association Posthumously Honors TowneBank Employee
Elizabeth “Beth” Prever, a TowneBank employee who passed away in August after a courageous fight with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), was posthumously honored with the American Bankers Association’s (ABA) 2017 George Bailey Distinguished Service Award. Prever worked at TowneBank as senior vice president and marketing and community relations for 11 years in Suffolk, where she […]
TowneBank Celebrates 10-Year NASDAQ Listing Anniversary
In October, TowneBank CEO Bob Aston and others visited the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square in New York City to ring the opening bell for the stock market for the day. The bell ringing was part of a 10-year anniversary celebration from when TowneBank was listed on NASDAQ on Oct. 9, 2007 (photo above).
Newport News Tourism’s New Office Space in City Center at Oyster Point
The Newport News Tourism office relocated from a suite on the third floor of Fountain Plaza to a ground-level storefront space at 702 Town Center Drive in City Center at Oyster Point during the summer of 2017. The new office gives visitors another resource for information in addition to the city’s official state-certified Visitor Center […]
The Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Celebrates Its 60th Birthday With Big Plans
By Don Harrison Archive Photos Courtesy of Virginia Department of Transportation “Forecast, if you dare, the traffic, the population, the wealth and the standard of living in the years ahead,” General James Anderson, Virginia’s then-highway commissioner told the ribbon-cutting crowd at the opening of a historic, and somewhat futuristic, new public works project on Nov. […]