Curry Roberts, president of the Fredericksburg Regional Alliance at the University of Mary Washington, has been elected chairman of the board of directors for Southern States Cooperative, one of the nation’s largest farmer-owned co-ops.

You can read more about it here:

http://www.fredericksburg.com/business/business_insider/curry-roberts-elected-chairman-of-southern-states-cooperative/article_823c7567-b962-500f-b3ec-3c7be63650f3.html

An article recently published in The Free Lance-Star featured the research of geography professor Steve Hanna.

In 2013, Hanna and his students mapped all of the city’s historical markers and monuments in Fredericksburg. They wanted to find out what these told — or omitted — about the history of slavery here. They updated the map this year.

Hanna concluded that the markers tell  part of the story, but not enough.

You can read the article here:

http://www.fredericksburg.com/news/local/fredericksburg/what-do-fredericksburg-s-monuments-and-markers-tell–/article_68b9c3a1-5d34-5032-81f7-b50a4677dd19.html

Lynne Richardson’s latest column, Understanding Your Benefits, recently appeared in The Free Lance-Star.

She explains: “I was asked by one of my students—a recent immigrant from another country—to help her understand the benefits package offered by a company.”

You can read her column here:

http://www.fredericksburg.com/business/columns/richardson-understanding-your-benefits/article_c347678c-c2f3-5f61-98b3-b75c3f1fa64e.html