Ed. note — The Independent News asked announced candidates for the Virginia Beach City Council Princess Anne District seat to answer an initial set of questions about issues. This appeared in print on Friday, May 25, during the edition distributed at this… Continue Reading
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE COURTHOUSE — Four candidates are lined up to challenge Virginia Beach City Councilmember Barbara Henley, the incumbent in the Princess Anne District who has represented the city’s southern communities for much of the past four decades. Five… Continue Reading
BY JANE BLOODWORTH ROWE RED MILL — When Emma Dizon was a child, she and her family pushed a metal shopping cart, loaded with food her father prepared in their Queens home, down the New York City sidewalks to a nearby… Continue Reading
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE VIRGINIA BEACH – Councilmember Barbara Henley, a farmer who first joined the Virginia Beach City Council four decades ago and an advocate for land preservation and limiting rural development, says she is running again this year to… Continue Reading
THE INDEPENDENT NEWS CREEDS — The annual show and sale for Virginia Beach 4-H Livestock Club was held on Thursday, June 2, and Friday, June 3, at the Creeds Ruritan Community Complex, raising funds for the youth-development program that aims to… Continue Reading
THE INDEPENDENT NEWS SANDBRIDGE — Locals gathered this past month at a picnic area at Little Island Park to gather bags and supplies and check areas mapped out in this residential beach community. Businessmen James Barton and Kevin Wong were co-chairs of… Continue Reading
BY JANET YARBROUGH MEYER OCEAN LAKES — Kayla Iazzetta graduated last month from the Math and Science Academy at Ocean Lakes High School. The 18-year-old Brigadoon resident earned a 4.36 grade point average. In the grand scheme of things, a… Continue Reading
BY JANET YARBROUGH MEYER OCEAN LAKES – It’s really difficult to find something when you can’t remember where you left it. That was the case at Ocean Lakes Elementary School when administrators tried to find a time capsule buried somewhere… Continue Reading