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Agriculture Ashville Park Back Bay Courthouse Government Pungo Sherwood Lakes Virginia Beach

Improvements in Sherwood Lakes should help ease flooding issues

September 28, 2017September 28, 2017 The Independent News

BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE  COURTHOUSE – Improving the capacity of and drainage from the two lakes at Sherwood Lakes, a subdivision near Pungo that experienced

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Agriculture Pungo Sigma Virginia Beach

Farmer John: Farmers and consumers reap benefits from local food systems

September 14, 2017September 14, 2017 The Independent News

“‘Ere long, the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No

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Agriculture Environment Health & Fitness Strawbridge Virginia Beach

Essay: Making things grow in a Virginia Beach community garden

September 7, 2017 The Independent News

BY DENISE FINKBEINER HOLDEN VIRGINIA BEACH — I’m no farmer, but I can get stuff to grow. Whether I can get family to eat

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Agriculture Creeds Pungo Virginia Beach

Column: The lines of the lightship

September 5, 2017July 4, 2019 The Independent News

BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE PUNGO — We scramble this morning to send our girls to school again. The lunches are made for two of them, one

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Agriculture Back Bay Chesapeake Currituck Government Knotts Island Military Norfolk Pungo Virginia Beach

Could opening the Great Bridge Lock ease flooding in southern Virginia Beach? Or could creating an inlet?

August 20, 2017August 22, 2017 The Independent News

Correction — An earlier version of this story did not fully identify City Manager Dave Hansen due to an editing mistake by John, who regrets

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Agriculture Ashville Park Government Sherwood Lakes Virginia Beach

Virginia Beach’s transition area intended to be a buffer between suburban and rural development

July 16, 2017July 11, 2018 The Independent News

THE INDEPENDENT NEWS COURTHOUSE — The transition area is a section of the city below the “green line” between urban and suburban development and

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Agriculture Ashville Park Government Pungo Virginia Beach

An ‘agrihood’ may come to Pungo, but some Virginia Beach officials are unsure whether it fits transition area

July 16, 2017August 4, 2018 The Independent News

BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE PUNGO — Developers including Bill DeSteph, a state senator and former member of the city council, have plans for land on

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Agriculture Business Food & Drink Landstown Virginia Beach

Beach N’ Seafood brings seafood back to Virginia Beach Farmers Market

July 13, 2017 The Independent News

BY JANE BLOODWORTH ROWE LANDSTOWN — When it comes to seafood, Eric Gamble puts the emphasis on local. Gamble, owner of Beach N’ Seafood Co.

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Agriculture Environment Government Virginia Beach

Wind-driven floods make themselves felt in southern Virginia Beach area

July 11, 2017July 11, 2017 The Independent News

BY JANE BLOODWORTH ROWE VIRGINIA BEACH – Wind tides caused by strong southerly winds have led to road closures and high water signs on

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Agriculture Ashville Park Back Bay Blackwater Creeds Government Pungo Sherwood Lakes Virginia Beach

What is Pungo? Well, that depends.

July 2, 2017February 11, 2020 The Independent News

BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE PUNGO — Is Pungo a magisterial district from years past? A former city voting borough? An unincorporated village encompassing roughly a mile around the

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