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Senate Armed Services panel approves defense bill
The Senate Armed Services Committee passed a $625 billion defense bill Friday that would raise the cost cap on the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford and free up nearly $2 billion to restore cuts from sequestration. Sen. Tim Kaine, a member of the...
Tags: Sexual Assault, U.S. Department of Defense, Tammy Duckworth, Hampton Roads, U.S. Senate
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Navy opposes mixed-use development in York
YORK — A debate during a York County Planning Commission meeting Wednesday over whether to expand a mixed-use development designation to several properties near Water Country USA revealed details about plans to develop 144 acres in the area into a...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Weaponry, York (York, Pennsylvania), Property, Anheuser-Busch
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York planners to vote on land use plan
YORK — After a year of reviewing the Comprehensive Plan, the York County Planning Commission is scheduled to vote on the updated land use plan on Wednesday. Prior to voting on the plan, the commission will evaluate a proposed change in the plan...Tags: York (York, Pennsylvania), Politics, Land Resources, Voting, Yorktown (York, Virginia)
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A cradle of slavery on the York
When English colonists began settling on the south bank of the York River in the 1630s, enslaved black labor was the exception rather than the rule. African field hands and house servants were not only prohibitively expensive but notoriously hard to...
Tags: Hampton Roads, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Lightfoot (James City, Virginia), Slavery, York County (Virginia)
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Virginia slavery took root in the rich soil of the York
Old Point Comfort and Jamestown may have the distinction of being the first places associated with the arrival of Virginia's first Africans in 1619. But it wasn't until decades later that slavery really took off -- and when it did it was the south...
Tags: Social Issues, York (York, Pennsylvania), Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Slavery, Memorial Day
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A lost Spanish mission on the York River
When the first English settlers sailed into Hampton Roads in 1607, they were latecomers to Virginia. Four times during the previous half-century, Spanish explorers probed the James and York rivers - and on Sept. 10, 1570 they planted a Jesuit mission...
Tags: Hampton Roads, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Mexico City
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Community announcements: A race, soccer & Boy Scouts
Bobby Stewart race The 4th annual Bobby Stewart 5k and 8k Run/Walk will be held on Saturday at Williams Wharf Landing in Mathews. The junior 1-mile fun run will begin at 9:15 a.m., the 5k race at 10 a.m. and the 8k race at 10:15 a.m. The 8k race is part...Tags: High School Sports, Veterans Day, American Legion, Boy Scouts of America, Chicago Hotels
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