BY WALT WHITEHURST PUNGO — In life one thing leads to another. In the latter years of my life, my wife Betty and I worked
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BY KAROLYN NATALIE KENNEDY Each year when it’s May That’s what I say. It’s a good deal to ride the ferris wheel. And I like
BY RITA H. JONES Who in the world PICKED the cotton pickin COTTON I rode by the road today Amazed
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE PUNGO — The issue published just before Pungo Strawberry Festival is a special one for The Independent News. This year, that’s the
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE OCEANFRONT — Eyes of the Roshi, an independent film shot this past year in Virginia Beach and Knotts Island, N.C., is nearing
BY VENI FIELDS PUNGO — Niche filled. The owners of the Tar Roof in Pungo didn’t plan it that way. But since the three Beach
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE RED MILL — A troupe of actors from Atlantic Shores Retirement Community recently brought nursery rhymes to life for students through a traveling
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE TOWN CENTER — Writer Rashod Ollison, familiar to readers of The Virginian-Pilot for writing about music and culture, is now the author of
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE KEMPSVILLE — Local jazz bandleader Jae Sinnett dropped by Birdland Music in Providence Square this past month to sign copies of his
BETWEEN TWO CITIES After “The Mending Wall” by Robert Frost When I think about my city and yours I might first think