Shop Local in the New Year!

When Local Business is Strong…Our Community is Strong!

106.1 The Corner invites you to resolve to shop local in the new year!

We’re fortunate to have hundreds of local businesses that help make Charlottesville unique. Local businesses return three times more revenue to our local economy, and much of our local tax base is supported by these local retailers. Every time you make that small decision to shop local, our community grows stronger!

Best of all…most everything that you’re shopping for can be found at a local business, right here in Charlottesville! Here our some our our favorites…

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