Blacksburg Named Top Ten Safest College Town
Blacksburg, Virginia jumps 13 spots to the 9th safest college town in America in 2019 based on violent and property crime rates, according to SafeWise.
September 3, 2019
Blacksburg, Virginia jumps 13 spots to the 9th safest college town in America in 2019 based on violent and property crime rates, according to SafeWise.
Christiansburg will be the home to the first United States trial location for drone delivery, third Wing delivery location across the world.
CNBC ranks the Commonwealth of Virginia, based on scoring in 10 different categories, as the overall #1 state to do business in 2019.
The award was received for the small urban system category which is defined by annual ridership and includes bus systems and rail transportation.
Motor Mile Field at Calfee Park was voted by Ballpark Digest Best of the Ballparks annual fan voting competition as the best rookie-level ballpark.
Two counties in the NRV were selected as the “Top Trending Virginia Mountain Destinations 2019” by Blue Ridge Country Magazine.
Fiber in Floyd: By 2021, 97% of Floyd County will be connected to high-speed internet. Stay tuned as Citizens lays 1,700 miles of fiber in Floyd County, VA.
Blacksburg and Christiansburg are the first towns in the U.S. where residents can have drone deliveries to their homes thanks to Google subsidiary Wing.
Backsburg was recently named one of the safest towns in Virginia by SafeWise. This is the fifth annual report by SafeWise.
Both Virginia Tech and Radford University will add to the number of computer science undergraduates in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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