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Home2020February

Month: February 2020

Columns

What is my case worth?

February 26, 2020 Joe Verser 0

I hate to break this to you, but this question cannot be answered on a billboard or in a TV commercial. Valuing an injury case, and recommending settlement, is based upon a number of factors, [Read More…]

Columns

Just when we thought there weren’t going to be any tax law changes in 2019! (Part 1)

February 26, 2020 Rob Carmines 0

On December 20, 2019, the “Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement” Act (SECURE Act) was signed. In addition to that legislation, The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act passed on December 24, 2019, containing tax provisions [Read More…]

Features

Inspired Resolutions, LLC: Consumer Directed services facilitation

February 26, 2020 Cathy Welch 0

New Hampshire native Rebecca Neill, BS, QDDP, MHRT/c, met and married Jamie in Massachusetts. His Marine Corp career took them and their four children around the United States. Their adopted daughter was diagnosed with mild [Read More…]

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How to recruit and hire Gen-Z employees

February 26, 2020 Dr. W. J. Heisler (of Blessed Memory) 0

When I went to college to study engineering, I solved problems with a slide rule and a calculator. There was no Internet or smart phone to assist me. Later, in graduate school, I conducted my [Read More…]

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Sonabank: Redefining a community bank

February 26, 2020 Noelle Riddle 0

Sitting in City Center is a business that wants to not only work with community residents and organizations, but give back to the area as well. “Sonabank stands for Southern National Bank Corp of Virginia [Read More…]

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Grunow’s Kitchen: Happy customers and big plans

February 26, 2020 Tess Goldblatt 0

Randy Brown is a really happy customer. He finishes a satisfying serving of chicken salad and says he would eat at Grunow’s Kitchen every day, if he could. He goes on to say that he [Read More…]

Features

Brooks Crossing Innovation Lab: Sparking community’s imagination

February 26, 2020 Kelli Caplan 0

The building on 30th Street in downtown Newport News looks like any other building: brick and fairly nondescript. But venture inside, and there is nothing standard going on. Filled with an awe-inspiring amount of technology, [Read More…]

Features

Rebecca “Becky” Cutchins – Media Relations Manager, Newport News Tourism

February 26, 2020 Oyster Pointer 0

The best kept secret in Newport News is:  No secrets in Tourism— but do you know about our four historic homes, the barnyard and aviary at Peninsula SPCA, the Ella Fitzgerald Theater at Downing-Gross and Peninsula [Read More…]

Features

Furniture Magicians: Reimagining beauty and history

February 26, 2020 Abigail Barna 0

Most families are familiar with a special piece of furniture passed down from generation to generation. Perhaps it is an old rocking chair that your grandparents handed down to your parents. Or maybe it is [Read More…]

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Sara and Stewart Sanders

February 25, 2020 Oyster Pointer 0

Sara and Stewart Sanders make up SHS Design, the graphic design company that produces the Oyster Pointer print edition each month and manages the website. Sara grew up on a farm in King and Queen [Read More…]

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