"It's a great building, it just has one little flaw...." … [Read more...]
Hampton Virginia is Ready for Halloween
Summer may have come to an end, but as quickly as we emptied the sand from our beach bags, we realized that with fall leaves comes one very exciting holiday…HALLOWEEN. … [Read more...]
Prepare for Natural Disasters by Knowing Your Zone
September is Preparedness Month and the City is urging residents to Know Your Zone through a statewide program designed to enhance current evacuation plans during emergency events. … [Read more...]
Norfolk Public Library Offering Residents Free Online High School Diploma Program
Who says going back to school is just for kids? … [Read more...]
Severe Storm Tips from City of Virginia Beach
The City of Virginia Beach, through its Office of Emergency Management and the National Weather Service/Wakefield, are monitoring a weather system that could bring heavy rain, rough surf, possible tidal flooding and gale force winds to Virginia Beach, especially along the Chesapeake Bay, and Southside Hampton Roads. … [Read more...]
There is a Petition to Remove the Norfolk Confederate Monument
"After the horrendous display of racism, bigotry, and white supremacy in Charlottesville, we, the citizens of the City of Norfolk, take a stand against white nationalism by removing one of its symbols, the Confederate monument," the petition, which can be found here, starts. … [Read more...]
City of Virginia Beach Awards Research Grants on Local German Prisoner of War Camp & Other VB Stories
The Virginia Beach Historic Preservation Commission has announced four grant awards for research projects that will provide additional scholarship in a variety of subject areas for Virginia Beach history. … [Read more...]
American Nazis in Virginia: Notes from the Ground in Charlottesville
Outside Emancipation Park, you could almost fool yourself. This could have been any summery Saturday morning in this college town. Vendors were set up in historic downtown. Families dined on patios. The sun shone through after a morning of on-and-off rain. … [Read more...]
Norfolk City Council Approves Open Data Policy
Norfolk City Council has adopted a new open data policy that will serve as the foundation for an open data program. … [Read more...]
Eclipse Party at Slover Library!
On August 21, 2017, a total eclipse of the sun will be visible in the Continental U.S., including here in Tidewater. … [Read more...]
Robots Have Landed at Virginia Beach Public Library
Sphero ball-shaped robots have landed at Virginia Beach Public Library (VBPL) and are ready for you to check out, take home and program. … [Read more...]
City of Virginia Beach Seeks Input on their Plan to End Homelessness
The Department of Housing and Neighborhood Preservation is updating the community’s Strategic Plan to End Homelessness, originally adopted by the City Council in 2013. … [Read more...]
Catnip Cat Cafe Gets Norfolk Purring
It’s happening fur-real! Norfolk has a cat cafe. Catnip Cat Cafe -- my baby, or should I say kitten? -- is the first one of its kind in all of Hampton Roads and will give Hampton Roads superior bragging rights. … [Read more...]
End of an Era: Five Points Community Farm Market to Close
Five Points Community Farm Market, a one-stop-shop for locally grown produce, a revolving door of culinary entrepreneurs, and one of the region's loudest voices calling attention to the many food deserts in our poorer neighborhoods, has announced it will close. … [Read more...]
The Russians Are Coming to Virginia Beach… for a Sister City Summit
On July 12 - 13, 2017, Sister Cities International will be hosting a U.S./Russia Mayors' Summit in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in conjunction with its 61st Annual Conference. … [Read more...]
Boats and Beers: Dock’n Dining in Hampton Roads
Nothing pairs with softshell crab quite like the aromatic fumes of sunscreen and boat exhaust. Seriously. … [Read more...]
Zone In: Help Decide the Future of Ocean View
If you live in Ocean View, you'll "definitely want to attend" this upcoming review of proposed changes to zoning ordinances in the neighborhood, according to Jeremy Sharp, principal planner for the city. … [Read more...]
Learn About Secrets of the Lost Colony at Hampton History Museum
Nicholas Luccketti, principal investigator and archaeologist of the James River Institute for Archaeology and vice president of research for First Colony Foundation, offers tantalizing clues recently unearthed as to the whereabouts of one of history’s longest-standing mysteries—the relocation of the Roanoke Settlers of the Lost Colony to a site in Eastern NC called “Site X” as … [Read more...]
New Virginia Law Promotes Alternatives to Suspending Students
Suspension from school has long been linked to academic failure. Students are away from the classroom for up to several days, missing out on material taught in class and falling behind. Meanwhile, assignments pile up, making a difficult situation even worse. … [Read more...]
Norfolk Has a New City Manager
Norfolk Mayor Kenneth Cooper Alexander announced Norfolk City Council has appointed Douglas L. Smith, Norfolk’s next city manager. … [Read more...]