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Column: Planning policies should be set in place firmly for Virginia Beach

July 7, 2024July 29, 2024 The Independent News

Ed. — Archived from the Sunday, July 7, print edition. BY KAREN BEARDSLEE KWASNY VIRGINIA BEACH — A reader who wanted to emphasize how much

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Editorial: Effort to kill a farmland preservation program that helps all of Virginia Beach must be stopped

April 16, 2018April 16, 2018 The Independent News

That ending the agricultural reserve program was proposed at all — then argued with questionable logic — shows a troubling division between Virginia Beach government and the

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Agriculture: I am a 12th generation farmer who knows killing the ARP threatens our industry

April 10, 2018 The Independent News

BY SCOTT MORRIS PLEASANT RIDGE — I am a 12th-generation farmer of land in the Pungo area, and I would like for my son to have

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Letter: Virginia Beach agriculture commissioners oppose proposal to end farmland preservation program

April 10, 2018April 10, 2018 The Independent News

Ed. — Virginia Beach Agriculture Advisory Commission Chairperson Diane Horsley and fellow members of the commission signed the following letter to Mayor Will Sessoms and

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Read the Virginia Beach city manager’s memorandum about ending the city’s farmland preservation program

March 29, 2018March 31, 2018 The Independent News

Ed. — The following includes most of the letter Virginia Beach City Manager Dave Hansen wrote to Mayor Will Sessoms and members of the

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Letter: There is no excuse for ending the agricultural reserve program

March 29, 2018March 29, 2018 The Independent News

Dear Editor: I grew up in Pungo at Vaughan Farms, and I now live in Massachusetts. It baffles me that here in Massachusetts, where

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Agriculture: 2015 Virginia Beach Farm Bureau resolutions

November 2, 2015 The Independent News

BY THE VIRGINIA BEACH FARM BUREAU Ed. — The following is a summary of Virginia Beach County Farm Bureau 2015 Resolutions approved by producer

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