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2012 Citizens of the Year: Charlie Hill and Golden Bethune-Hill
They trip over the ends of each other's sentences as they vie to tout their individual projects and recognize each other's work. They can barely wait to add an encomium or anecdote about their shared passions for health and education. They're determined...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Fort Eustis, Cardiologists, High Blood Pressure, Prostate Cancer
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New Phoebus master plan to be unveiled
Master plans apparently do not get stale as quickly as you might think, at least that appears to be the case in Phoebus. Six years after being published, the neighborhood’s master plan is getting retooled by planners from Urban Design Associates...Tags: Buckroe, Phoebus (Hampton, Virginia)
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Ironclad mourned 150 years after its death
When the USS Monitor left Hampton Roads on the afternoon of Dec. 29, 1862, the southwest wind was light, the skies clear and the seas smooth. Nobody imagined that just 36 hours later the famous ship hailed as the savior of the Union after its historic...
Tags: CSS Virginia, Human Interest, Navy Yard, Manufacturing and Engineering, Hampton Roads
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Video: Lowell, Mass., National Historic Park
Fort Monroe planners are still trying to decide whether a trolley or water taxi can be used to help visitors get around the property.
Tags: Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry
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Mary Bunting was groomed to be Hampton's city manager
HAMPTON — Gusts from the most massive hurricane to hit the East Coast in more than a decade rattle the windows in City Hall as City Manager Mary Bunting walks into her office after another tour of the city to inspect storm damage. By dusk, Bunting...
Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Hurricanes, Roanoke (Roanoke, Virginia), Ocean View
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Historic Norfolk cemetery spotlights beauty of trees during free tours
Cemeteries are more than just places of eternal rest. They can be places of eternal beauty and ongoing life. Recently, I learned about the Old City Cemetery in Lynchburg, home to my father's family, and its impressive antique rose collection. In May,...
Tags: Memorial Day, Ocean View, Tourism and Leisure, West Point, Human Interest
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Looted court records return after 150 years
Nobody knows exactly how many deeds, wills and other legal records might have been stored in the old Warwick County courthouse when the Civil War started. But by the time the conflict ended in 1865, the single most comprehensive source of information...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Peninsula Campaign (1862), Arts and Culture, Denbigh, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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Civil War spawns huge Hampton hospital
Few American armies have been more humbled by the reality of war than the Army of the Potomac during its summer 1862 march up the Peninsula from Fort Monroe to Richmond. When its blue-clad legions landed at Old Point Comfort in March, it was the largest...
Tags: Malaria, Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia), Hospitals and Clinics, Armed Conflicts, Human Interest
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Local actor takes on speaking role in Spielberg's 'Lincoln'
HAMPTON — Robert Shepherd of Hampton has a speaking part in Steven Spielberg's new movie "Lincoln," but he didn't have much on-screen interaction with two-time Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis, who plays the president. "He just came in,...
Tags: Lincoln (movie, 2012), Entertainment, Steven Spielberg, Daniel Day-Lewis, Movies
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