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Newport News planners support removing parking minimum requirements citywide
Newport News is considering doing away with requirements that developers and businesses build a certain number of parking spots — a move city officials believe will boost business and allow for additional housing development. The city’s Planning Commission unanimously voted last week to recommend removing off-street parking minimum requirements citywide. Parking minimums, dictated by the ...
Local hospitals navigating impending IV fluid shortage
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Hurricane Helene’s reach is being felt far beyond the areas directly impacted. Hospitals in Hampton Roads are navigating an impending national shortage of IV and other fluids because the facility where more than half of the nation’s supply is made is now shut down. Floodwaters halted production of critical fluids at […]
HRT to offer free rides on Election Day
Getting to the polls will be easier on Election Day for voters who need transportation to be able to vote. Riding Hampton Roads Transit (HRT) buses, light rail, ferry, paratransit, and upcoming microtransit will be free on Election Day, Nov. 5., to help voters get to the polls, the transit agency announced on Saturday.
Council candidates respond: Did the Town Council make the right decision in February by voting to set a real estate tax rate of 16 cents per $100 in assessed value, up from the 14-cent rate set eight months earlier? Why or why not?
The Smithfield Times will be taking a different approach to Smithfield Town Council candidate questionnaires this year. Rather than sending a list of questions and publishing all questions and responses in the same print edition and online, the Times will send the candidates a single question once per week. There will be 12 questions in […]
Promontory, St. Luke’s developments could reach Planning Commission by early 2025
Smithfield’s Planning Commission could, by early next year, get its first look at “The Promontory,” a mixed-use development that would add 262 homes and five commercial parcels off Benns Church Boulevard. Around the same time, Isle of Wight County’s Planning Commission could get its first look at revised plans for St. Luke’s Village, a 2005-approved […]
IWCS adds attendance incentive to exam policy
Isle of Wight County’s School Board voted unanimously on Sept. 19 to adopt changes to its end-of-course exam exemption policy in hopes of incentivizing middle and high school students to attend class. The division has long allowed an end-of-course exam exemption for high school students who maintain a B-minus or higher grade by the date […]
Newport News Public Schools receives $2 million DoDEA grant
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Newport News Public Schools (NNPS) received a $2 million grant from the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) for STEM learning opportunities. The five-year grant is part of the Mission STEM: Pioneering Pathways in Robotics and Space Exploration initiative. The funds will go towards STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) learning opportunities for students in grades K-12 at 12 of the division's schools.
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