Orapeake Farms Keeps Vanishing Local Flavors Alive
By Eric J. Wallace It’s a hot, mid-May morning and the sun is beating down on 57-year-old Jerry Greene’s back. Wearing an orange T-shirt, blue jeans and a wide-brimmed...
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Köehler Books Enables Authors as an Independent Boutique Publisher
By Ryan Miller Photos by David Uhrin Köehler Books’ North End studio space in Virginia Beach, at the home of President and Publisher John Köehler, would make for an...
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Excellence In Leadership: Lori Stacy, Trader Interactive
CEO of Trader Interactive By Barrett Baker Lori Stacy started working in retail, as many high school students do. She always thought she was going to follow in her...
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MAR Surf Exchange’s Customized Surfboards
By Ryan Miller Out on the sandy beaches with the smell of surf wax and salt water in the air, surfers paddle out, catch a swell and glide on the water. Surfing in...
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Norfolk’s Doumar’s is Three Generations Strong and Still Going
By Barrett Baker Photos by Ilsy Serrano The story of Doumar’s goes back as far as the late 1800s. Syrian immigrant Abe Doumar came to the United States to make a better...
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Red Rocket Signs’ Hand-Painted Commercial Signs
By Ryan Miller Way before an era of vinyl lettering and digital printing, signs displayed before buildings for business and billboards across town were hand-painted,...
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