Ed. — From the Sunday, Feb. 14, print edition. BY JANE BLOODWORTH ROWE VIRGINIA BEACH — Jim and Genny Jacobs always had a hankering for the farm
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BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE VIRGINIA BEACH— A family from Vienna, Va., stayed at a house just off the water in Sandbridge last month, and they
BY JANE BLOODWORTH ROWE OCEAN LAKES — Some trees live longer than anything else on earth. Members of Lynnhaven River Now reminded Ocean Lakes residents
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE VIRGINIA BEACH — A couple of years ago, Dr. Sara Sweeten, a research scientist at Virginia Tech, stumbled across specimens of
Ed. — This originally ran in the Sunday, Aug. 23, print edition. BY J.D. WILSON SIGMA — I woke up from a nap the other day,
BY JARED BRANDWEIN BACK BAY — An editorial in the pages on The Independent News warned us all that we needed to show up at
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Column: We must preserve farmland and rural communities
BY KAREN BEARDSLEE KWASNY VIRGINIA BEACH — In 2002, when my husband and I were looking for a new house, a friend said to
BY JANE BLOODWORTH ROWE LAGO MAR — As a child growing up in East Greenwich, R.I., Joyce Williams created her own little park by transplanting
BY JANE BLOODWORTH ROWE VIRGINIA BEACH — A recent conversation with Alexandra Cantwell, adult education manager at the Norfolk Botanical Garden, showed me much of
BY J.D. WILSON SIGMA — I read a book, Children of the Mind, by the science fiction writer Orson Scott Card, which used the terms “edge