Ashland's Digital Gift Cards Support Local Businesses

Ashland’s town council announced at the end of June that a new community gift card program is giving residents, visitors, and newcomers a convenient way to support local businesses while strengthening the town’s vibrant downtown economy. The initiative, powered by Yiftee, allows shoppers to purchase a single digital or printable gift card that can be redeemed at a growing network of participating businesses throughout Ashland. With more than a dozen local merchants already involved, and unlike t

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The Bear Necessities of Ashland, VA

Every community seems to collect its own folklore over the years. Some stories become traditions, while others become running jokes that newcomers aren’t quite sure they believe; that is, until they experience them firsthand. In Ashland, those stories have a funny way of turning out to be true. Our proud Yellow Jackets (both Randolph-Macon’s and the buzzing kind), freight trains that politely–or not so politely–interrupt daily life, drunken raccoons raiding the local liquor store that achieve in

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