| The Elizabeth River Projectâs latest work doesnât fight the rising tide. It will roll with it. The environmental group is constructing a 6,500-foot resilience lab along Colley Avenue and Knitting Mill Creek. The building has an intentional life span of about 30 to 50 years; when sea levels reach a certain height, the structure can be disassembled and moved to allow a living shoreline, thatâs part of the design, to take its place. The outdoor pavilion will float when the area floods, and is meant as a refuge for people who canoe down the river-like streets after a deluge or for those caught outside. Read more in the Sunday Main News section
Glass artists Nadine Sterk and Lonny van Ryswyck want us to look down. To look at the sand under our feet and think about the people who have lived on it. The events of captivity and liberation on the beach at Fort Monroe National Monument in Hampton. The sand at the Oceanfront that cradled the knee of a person proposing marriage. The joy someone finds in digging into the yard of their first home. The Dutch artists have created a crowd-sourced exhibition, âTo See a World in a Grain of Sand,â that is on display at the Chrysler Museum of Art through Jan. 22. The show contains 270 samples from around the globe, several of them from local areas including Fort Monroe, Naval Station Norfolk by the USS Cole Memorial, the Oceanfront in Virginia Beach, and a long-lost baseball field in Portsmouth. Read more in the Sunday Break section Three years ago, Jay Hutchins watched a dilapidated old gas station near his familyâs flower shop transform into a performing arts venue. Hutchins, a drummer back in high school and a theater major in college, soon came to enjoy Sunday afternoon jam sessions with the buildingâs owner, Ray Friend, a guitarist. He eventually joined the board of Friendâs fledgling arts nonprofit, Flat Iron Crossroads, and embraced its mission of offering culturally diverse shows and educational workshops. When Friend decided to retire this year for family reasons, he offered to sell the 2-acre property to Brent and Beckyâs Bulbs, a nearby flower bulb company and garden store in Gloucester County. Hutchins is the general manager at the longtime local business.
Read more in the Sunday Break section Suffolk-based TowneBank announced that William âBillyâ Foster will become its CEO, succeeding J. Morgan Davis, who plans to retire. Davis will step down as CEO at the end of the year with plans to retire on March 31, according to a news release. He will continue to work on the board and as an executive consultant focused on mergers and acquisitions, customer relations and other special projects. Read more in the Sunday Work & Money section
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