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The Rural Ontario Institute (ROI) has officially recognized thirty-two emerging leaders from rural Ontario, de...

The ROI is getting up to $620,300 in funding from 2023 to 2025 from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.

The University of Virginia (UVA) and its partners have broken ground on a new 223,000-square-foot Hotel and Conference Center in Charlottesville, which is targeting a spring 2025 debut. The hospitality center, whose official name will be revealed at a future date, will be managed by Pyramid Global Hospitality.

Rehiring and reskilling conference center workforce must be complete before group business returns to where it was pre-pandemic.

Like all venues during the pandemic, conference centers suffered a substantial hit when the meetings spigot went dry. In many cases, the revenue damage was even more severe, as this purpose-built segment of the industry couldn’t generally fall back on leisure customers looking for a respite from the pandemic.

A trio of the horses that are part of the former Meyers Lake Amusement Park carousel -- now the Bushnell Park Carousel in Hartford, Conn. -- will have their tether to Stark County tightened. Surviving members of the Stadelman family, with ties to Meyers Lake through the family matriarch who died in 2015, have donated $15,000 to complete restoration of the Bushnell Park Carousel, which began almost a decade ago. "We have done this in honor of our mother, Diana Lynch Stadelman, who dedicated almo...

March 11, 2021   ·   0 Comments The Orangeville & Area Small Business Enterprise Centre is part of a larger network of 54 Small Business Centres (SBC) across the province. SBCs offer a range of free business support services to entrepreneurs who are starting or growing their ventures. Through the support of the Ontario Government, SBC Ontario recently launched a new website www.sbcontario.ca. to increase access and awareness of the Ce...