Business

Hank M. Testerman, assistant vice president and managing officer of the East Galax office of Carter Bank & Trust, graduated Aug. 6 from the Virginia Bankers School of Bank Management at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
Testerman ranked in the top 10 percent of the 2010 class.
Testerman is a native of Mouth of Wilson and a graduate of Grayson County High School.
He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Organizational Management from Radford University.

The Body Shop, located at 1875 Meadow St. in Galax, opened in May to offer high-quality body work — everything from painting to building custom mold and body kits to fiberglass and metal work.
Chris Davis, owner of the shop, specializes in rare cars, he said, as he showed the 1988 McClaren Mustang he's working on — one of only 200 of those cars made.

RICHMOND — Congress' decision to extend federal unemployment compensation through November means that scores of jobless Virginians whose benefits began lapsing in June will continue to receive payments, including retroactive ones.
But some may have to wait several days, or even weeks, to get the money, according to the Virginia Employment Commission.

LAMBSBURG — The opening of the Love's Travel Stop at Interstate 77 Exit is in the rearview mirror, but Carroll officials see more development ahead.
Officials from Carroll County, Hillsville and the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce joined Raymont Gordon, Love's general manager for the Lambsburg location, on Monday morning not only to celebrate the opening of the truck stop, but also the interstate interchange just north of Virginia's border with North Carolina.