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Beer Maker Rejects Columbus As Site Of New Brewery

One of the nation's top 10 craft breweries has selected Virginia as the new site of its East Coast operations. California-based Stone Brewing Company plans to build a facility in Richmond. Columbus was in the running for the facility.  Stone says the 60 million dollar facility will employ nearly 375 people.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.