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“It’s like The Field of Dreams… If you build it, they will come.” Those were the words of Senate President Robert Stivers Tuesday when he joined other local and state-level officials at the site of what will soon be the newest speculative building to be constructed inside the...

Most folks in Williamsburg know Alvin Sharpe as the city’s longtime Director of Tourism. Many also know him as “coach” after he spent over a decade leading the cross country and track and field programs at the University and the Cumberlands (then Cumberland College).

Dozens upon dozens of jeeps are set to converge on Williamsburg next week for the 29th Annual Gateway to the Cumberland Jeep Jamboree event. There are currently about 178 Jeeps registered for this year’s Jeep Jamboree, which is a bit of a decline from last year’s participants,...

Williamsburg’s newest tourism director looks an awful lot like its last tourism director due in large part because it is the same person. After a 40-year tenure, Alvin Sharpe first retired as Williamsburg Tourism Director in August 2020, but agreed in May 2021 to come back as...

The thing Alvin Sharpe is most proud of during his 40-year tenure as Williamsburg Tourism Director are all the projects that tourism has been able to accomplish, such as the creation of Briar Creek Park, construction of the Williamsburg Tourism and Convention Center and the...

For the last 27 years, Joyce Byrd has typically been the first person you see when you enter the Williamsburg Tourism and Convention Center. Since 2008, she has been the person in charge of Williamsburg’s biggest festival, Old Fashioned Trading Days. On Monday morning, July 2,...