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Archaeologists believe they’ve found site of Revolutionary War barracks in Virginia
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia have uncovered what is believed to be the remains of a military barracks from the Revolutionary War, including chimney bricks and musket balls indented with soldiers’ teeth. The site is on the property of Colonial Williamsburg, a living history museum that...
$101M in free tolls are coming to Hampton Roads. Who will be able to benefit?
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — If you make less than $50,000 a year and live in one of five Hampton Roads cities, you could soon pay nothing each time you travel through either the Downtown or Midtown tunnels. Monday, Gov. Glenn Youngkin, (R-Va.) signed the state’s $279 billion two-year budget, which includes $101 million for toll […]
Police: 2 accused of stealing from Smithfield Family Dollar
SMITHFIELD, Va. (WAVY) — Two people are accused of shoplifting nearly $700 in merchandise from a Benns Church Boulevard Family Dollar Tuesday, Smithfield Police said. Police seek to identify two people captured in photographs that allegedly shoplifted merchandise valued at more than $687. Police said the incident took place around 5:15 p.m.
IAHR: Taylor Walkup-Amos
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Among all the teachers in the country, the Country Music Association has selected 30 music educators who are exceeding expectations in their duties. One of these exceptional music teachers is Taylor Walkup-Amos, who hails from Chesapeake. We had the chance to meet her at Yorktown Elementary School, where she is making a profound impact on her students’ lives through the magic of music on a daily basis.
Surry debuts driving tour highlighting Black, indigenous history
In 1860, a year before the start of the Civil War, over a third of Surry County’s African American population had already been freed from slavery under a 78-year-old, circa-1782 Virginia General Assembly law. It’s not something Bacon’s Castle District Supervisor Walter Hardy Jr. learned from a textbook as a product of the county’s public […]
Newport News Education Association gathers signatures for collective bargaining
The Newport News Education Association is currently collecting signatures for collective bargaining, which means the union would handle contract negotiations for Newport News Public Schools employees.
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