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Column: In the race toward Christmas, remembering what matters

January 1, 2019 The Independent News

BY LISA VERSPRILLE BURKETT SANDBRIDGE — Christmas is back. Time flies every year between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I start to stress when the autumn decorations

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Agriculture Pungo Virginia Beach

From the Editor: A hen named Hope

September 23, 2018 The Independent News

BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE PUNGO — Their country cousins traveled to take a young man off to college, and so my wife and girls took on

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Agriculture Sandbridge Virginia Beach

Column: Summertime and the bounty of my grandparents’ garden

August 21, 2018 The Independent News

BY LISA VERSPRILLE BURKETT SANDBRIDGE — When we recently moved into our house in Sandbridge, we made time for dragging out some planters and getting

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Business Virginia Beach

Column: On family memories and the passing of local Sears stores

August 8, 2018 The Independent News

BY JIMMY FROST VIRGINIA BEACH — I remember when my parents could walk into the Sears at Pembroke, drop the kids off at the Atari display

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Pungo Virginia Beach

In Pungo, all aboard a family line

August 8, 2018August 8, 2018 The Independent News

BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE PUNGO — An elaborate backyard railroad is the stuff young dreams are made of.  Which, of course, is the point.  Chuck and

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Column: A football upbringing leads to enduring gridiron appreciation

January 24, 2018 The Independent News

BY LISA VERSPRILLE BURKETT VIRGINIA BEACH — I am in front of the television for hours on Saturdays during the fall. I’m a college football fanatic.

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Sandbridge Virginia Beach

Column: In heat and humidity, the creativity of keeping cool

September 26, 2017 The Independent News

BY LISA BURKETT VIRGINIA BEACH — As fall approaches, I think back to our wonderful summer in Virginia Beach and to all the visitors that

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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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Arts & Entertainment Ashville Park Virginia Beach

Poetry: “My mother, this way” by Karen Beardslee Kwasny

July 5, 2016July 5, 2016 The Independent News

My mother,  This way   Reaches a hand across the bed we share to tap my thigh good night. It is a calling to

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Health & Fitness Kempsville Virginia Beach

Column: A late resolution to negotiate a better relationship with health

March 23, 2016 The Independent News

BY ADAM JONES KEMPSVILLE — I’m making my New Year’s resolution in March because the gym is too crowded in January. That’s an assumption, of

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