Chef Charles Delargy ticks down a list of tasks for the day. Cut the meat. Prep the stations. Get ready to cook. Delargy is program director at the Culinary Institute of Virginia in Oyster Point. [Read More…]
The Newport News Tourism office has relocated from a suite on the third floor of Fountain Plaza Two to a ground-level storefront space on Town Center Drive in City Center at Oyster Point. The move [Read More…]
My maternal grandmother lived in the west end of old Hampton during the 1940s and 50s. This was a beautiful, older neighborhood with tree-lined streets and sidewalks bordering spacious yards of old Victorian homes tucked [Read More…]
“My proudest achievement may be to continue a 120-year-old operation,” says Thomas “Tommy” West Meehan, president and third-generation owner of C.D. West & Company Real Estate. “And my proudest accomplishments include a wonderful family, in [Read More…]
Every office develops the flavor of its leadership. This is a statement Lori Marrow, manager of Primary Residential Mortgage, Inc.’s Newport News branch, believes and implements daily. A passion for helping people is what sets [Read More…]
As an educator, I hear some interesting things in the classroom—some of them inspired, some of them uninformed, and some of them utterly ridiculous—but, all of them entertaining. I was talking with my students about [Read More…]
Some builders view the Board of Contractors in Richmond as another bureaucratic nuisance. Others understand the important role that the board plays in protecting the public. Indeed, the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled as early [Read More…]
“My shop is a happy place,” says Kim Overby, owner of We Create at Kreations by Kim Gift Shop on Main Street in Hilton Village. Overby specializes in customized gift baskets, fresh and silk floral [Read More…]
Pennsylvania native Saundra “SoJo” Johnson served in the United States Army before earning her Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish. Though her goal was to teach, after a patience-challenging year, she switched gears. Today she [Read More…]
Every time I’m in a gym I see shoulders and low backs and knees being used in dangerous ways—often with the supervision of “trainers” who should (but don’t) know better. A certification obviously doesn’t assure [Read More…]
Linda Singleton, owner of Bookkeeping Assistant, was introduced to numbers early in her life by her mother. “She was the assistant manager of a bank,” Singleton says, “and when we were young she opened checking [Read More…]
Continuing our “Adventures with Syl and Bill,” it was two weeks before Bill’s birthday, and that meant the onus was on me to plan his celebratory gala. In two weeks! What was I thinking? In [Read More…]
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