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Earl Swift, former Virginian-Pilot reporter Debbie Messina and her husband,
former VDOT Commissioner Phil Shucet

Earl Swift Came Home to Promote His Tenth and Perhaps Most Personal Book

For 21 years (1987-2008), Earl Swift informed and entertained us as a diligent and adventure seeking news and feature reporter for The Virginian-Pilot. But since then, he’s been an author, taking readers to the moon (Across the Airless Fields), up rivers (Journey on the James), out into the Bay (Chesapeake Requiem) and across the country (The Big Roads). “I’ve written ten books, five in the last nine years.”

Paint Pink is Fulfilling Their Pledge to the Non-Profit’s Late Founder

As talented as she was at acrylic art, Kim Keene was an even better human being.

After a seven-year battle with breast and then metastatic cancer, Kim died in 2024 at the age of 55. But a year earlier, she had started Paint Pink to raise money for less fortunate patients who were struggling to make ends meet.

Lucky Oyster’s Full Walls are Reminders of the Restaurant’s Late Owners

Kellam High alum Lexi Wall considered medical school after graduating from UVA in 2014 with a degree in chemistry. But instead she came home to Virginia Beach and to the Lucky Oyster restaurant on General Booth Boulevard where she started as a hostess at age 16.

For Thousands of 5^th Graders, Air Show Was Also About Sounds of Music

On the Friday before the official opening of the recent annual NAS Oceana Air Show, there were aerial acrobatics in the sky but plenty also to see inside Hanger 56. There some 8,300 fifth graders from Chesapeake and Virginia Beach had a STEAM immersion, visiting exhibits to learn about possible careers involving Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts or Math.

After Long Careers in Radio, the Wordens are Now Helping Businesses Build Their Brands

Good news for the many fans of Eric and Julianne Worden, who both lost their jobs at Sinclair Communications in a budget-cutting move last fall. Juli was Program Director and General Sales Manager for local AM news/talk stations WNIS and WTAR. Eric was the 20+ year morning guy on 93.7 BOB-FM.

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