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Hampton Roads is the name for the Norfolk-Virginia Beach metropolitan area in southeastern Virginia. Hampton Roads is home to the major United States Navy, Air Force and Army bases. It also is home to NASA and Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding. The area is also full of historical landmarks and miles of beaches.
Hampton Roads is the name for the Norfolk-Virginia Beach metropolitan area in southeastern Virginia. Hampton Roads is home to the major United States Navy, Air Force and Army bases. It also is home to NASA and Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding. The area is also full of historical landmarks and miles of beaches.
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Reporter has career day at Junction City school
smojica@amnews.comI have a heightened respect for teachers after spending Friday afternoon at Junction City Elementary School explaining to groups of students what I do for a living and how they can prepare for a newspaper career if that’s their heart’s desire....Tags: Teaching and Learning, Newspaper and Magazine, Students
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Hurricane Irene brings rain, heavy seas to east coast
Associated PressMOREHEAD CITY, N.C. (AP) - Hurricane Irene opened its assault on the Eastern Seaboard on Saturday by lashing the North Carolina coast with wind topping 90 mph and pounding shoreline homes with waves. Farther north, authorities readied a massive shutdown...Tags: Natural Disasters, Hurricanes, Nags Head, New York City, Weather
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Coal needs fair shake in energy discussions
Guest ColumnistWhen Robert Kennedy Jr. appeared at the University of Kentucky last year, he — as many alternative energy proponents often do — referred to the Midwest as being the Saudi Arabia of wind energy. Well, I had occasion to drive through “...Tags: Forests, Environmental Politics, Renewable Energy, Wind Power, Mining
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Virginia Arts Festival presents 'The Rite of Spring' on its 100th anniversary
Classical audiences today are a relatively well-behaved bunch, rarely uttering a harsh word at a piece of music they find confusing or offensive. That wasn't the case 100 years ago, when a riot broke out at the premiere of "The Rite of Spring." The...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Igor Stravinsky, Death and Dying Customs
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Beautiful sounds in the great outdoors: Your summer guide to music alfresco
In Hampton Roads, summertime means outdoor music time. Right along with the sizzling heat and stifling humidity comes a season of simmering grooves, scorching solos and sultry vocals. Some of the biggest names in American music cruise through the region...
Tags: North Mississippi Allstars (music group), Darius Rucker, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Eddie Shaw
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Cheap summer fun
Pool memberships, theme park passes, museum tickets — keeping up with Hampton Roads' best attractions can get expensive. Here are some frugal ways to fill the days this summer. See a movie The Hampton family movie series has moved to Mill...
Tags: Rio (movie), ParaNorman (movie), Arts and Culture, Movies, Services and Shopping
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Mergers, higher fares hurt NN airport
NEWPORT NEWS — More than a year after AirTran airways flew out of the Newport News-Williamsburg Airport for the last time, nearly 400,000 fewer passengers are flying out of Hampton Roads, according to airport executive director Ken Spirito. It's not...
Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Old Dominion University, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Marketing, AirTran
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Public schools key in breaking the cycle
Bill Gates said, "I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act." In leadership positions that I have held, this has been my experience. Whether it be business, civic or political engagement, the...Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Social Issues, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Best mileage for transportation tax dollars
A new transportation law will soon tax Peninsula citizens to fund traffic congestion relief projects. Whether or not one agrees with the law, it is our duty to make sure that our tax dollars are spent correctly. The Hampton Roads Transportation...Tags: Emancipation Oak, Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, Road Transportation, Crime, Law and Justice, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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How to find freebies, trade groups
About 50,000 federal employees in Hampton Roads face the prospect of furloughs, according to the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission. During the furlough, which could last through September, employees could see a 20 percent drop in pay. The...
Tags: Father's Day, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Economy, Business and Finance, Redbox, Finance
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Female stunt pilot began flying in 1960s
Flying over the Smithfield Foods plant in her 1978 two-seater Decathlon single-engine plane, Linda Mathias speaks through her headset. "When the wind blows the right way, you can smell the ham," she says. Mathias has been blazing a trail in the sky...
Tags: Smithfield Foods, Decathlon, Auction Service, Armed Forces, Military Equipment
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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: Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, Arts and Culture, Yorktown (York, Virginia), Lightfoot (James City, Virginia)
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