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Hampton Roads Will Remember 9-11 at Two Sites Bearing World Trade Center Steel

In 2006, five years after the infamous 9-11 attacks, New York’s Port Authority began the World Trade Center Steel Program. 2,500 cities, schools, museums and military units requested a relic of the tragedy. Chesapeake’s Fine Arts Commission applied and was chosen, receiving a 5.5-ton beam from the skyscraper that it placed within a wrought iron fence at the entrance to City Park on Greenbrier Parkway.

Kempsville High Grad Rhea Seehorn is Up for an Emmy this Sunday Night

If you’re a fan of the Apple TV drama Pluribus, you know that Rhea Seehorn portrays novelist Carol Sturka in the post-apocalyptic science fiction television series.

Seehorn lives in NY, but she grew up in Virginia Beach and graduated from Kempsville High School. Go Chiefs!

Mark Butts’ Art Will be the Face of Next Month’s Annual Boardwalk Show

No one paints our present in Hampton Roads better than Mark Butts.

A Virginia Beach native, Mark taught and coached for 38 years in the VA Beach School System, really making his name on the hardwood as a two-time Beach District Coach of the Year (Green Run and First Colonial).

Energetic: At 90, Holocaust Survivor Erica Ausch Shows No Signs of Slowing Down

For the past 13 summers, Erica Ausch has led hour long water aerobics classes for fellow residents at the Oceans Condominiums on Atlantic Avenue. “Raise hands, bring them over your head, then down to your sides,” Erica calls out. “Kick right side, arms out, then left, ten times.”

Christian Simmons’ Personality and Art Define Norfolk’s Unique Sanctuary Tacos

By Joel Rubin

“Wait, let me get my sunglasses,” Christian Simmons tells me before I snap a picture of the co-owner of the self-described “best dive bar in Norfolk.” Indeed there may be no more unusual (or dedicated) proprietor in the entire region than this Norfolk Catholic High grad who has entertained patrons at Sanctuary Tacos on Addison Street in the Neon District for the past eight years. “I got my start at Palladium in New York City where I saw Andy Warhol three times a week.”

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