Story archive for September 2006

Thursday, Sept. 14

• 69 Years Ago

• Saints vs. Trojans, on fields and courts

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• Marcus Delman Felton Sr.

• Betty Rountree Babb

• Lottie Lassiter Goodman

• Doretha J. Ricks

• Windsor graduate Brandon Newsome is a freshman on the Elon University football team. Newsome, who is a scholarship athlete for the Phoenix, ran for more than 4,000 yards and 40 TDs in his Windsor care

• Chargers rout debuting team

• Local student-athletes in action

• Lakeland's Kelsey Greene sets for a Lady Cavalier teammate during Tuesday night's match. Andrew Giermak/Suffolk News-Herald

• Boating Safe - Boating safety grants

• NSA's Olivia White sends a pass across the Walsingham arc during the second half of NSA's 4-0 loss to Walsingham. Andrew Giermak/Suffolk News-Herald

• Hunting and Fishing Day is quiet in VA

• Deep Creek sweeps Cavaliers

Saturday, Sept. 9

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Sunday, Sept. 3

• Small, Asbell to marry

• Emily Grace Holland was born April 13. She was four pounds, 14 ounces and 18 1/4 inches. She is the daughter of Charlene and Tim Holland and sister to Taylor Holland. Her grandparents are Marjorie Edw

• Eric and Patricia Porter announce the birth of Da#8217;mon Curtaz Wislon, five pounds, four ounces, on Feb. 24. His mother is Whitney N. Wilson and the father is Curtis Wilson. Paternal grandparents a

• The best laid plans By Andy Prutsok 09/03/2006 As promised, we#8217;re returning to the blogosphere today after a relaxing vacation. I had hoped we would debut the new blog with the new Web site, but

• Special people

• Coordinating what, exactly?

• Yard sales and traveling are very important in summer months

• It#8217;s a small world in more ways than one

• Concern about Katrina victim brought satisfying, coincidental answer

• Things were still Done On Time#8217; at Bloom 2006 Staff 09/03/2006 I seem to be spreading myself too thin lately and made up my mind to soon change that situation. However, instead of eliminating a f

• Paging Dr. Stasick, Dr. Stasick, report to the OR, stat!#8217; Staff 09/03/2006 I went to the dentist Wednesday. It had been some time since I had visited one and I have a couple of things going on th

• Don#8217;t even try to take my school supplies, or else

• Get the monkey off my back, please!

• Country roads, take me home Staff 09/03/2006 I#8217;m originally from West Virginia, or as it is known back there, #8220;West By God Virginia,#8221; and every once in awhile something will occur that

• The night the lights went out at our house

• Traveling at the speed of 36.8mph Staff 09/03/2006 My wife and I just returned from a weekend in New Jersey, where we spent about as much time on the road as we did visiting our old friends. I all beg

• Add another idiot to my no-watch#8217; list Staff 09/03/2006 One of the greatest things about living in America is that we have choices. We can go just about any place we want, buy just about anything

• There#8217;s a good reason we hear so much about tropical weather

• If a Virginia politician bribes you, it#8217;s OK

• Politicans have a favorite color and it#8217;s green Staff 09/03/2006 I was pleased to see a letter printed in The Virginian-Pilot from Robert M. Hayden on the leadership of elected officials. This th

• Airline travel stereotypes

• Have you considered adoption?

• Battling market fragmentation

• Avoiding the slippery slope could kill us all

• It has to be said out loud Staff 09/03/2006 The following are some thoughts regarding the failings of a system and a culture. Please note that it accurately describes the mood of many Americans and do

• May 8, 1945 Spring was in the air Staff 09/03/2006 It was a strange morning, the sun out and all was quiet on the eastern front. There were no planes from either side up there and no sound of artiller

• All quiet on the downtown front

• So, just how cold was the winter of 44? Staff 09/03/2006 Words like markedly, significant, notably, highly, and very do not describe the record weather in Europe in December of 1944. We never turned t

• OK, so I put my foot in my mouth

• If only we could look back and actually see antiquity

• Quite often answers lead to more questions

• Being alone isn#8217;t what it#8217;s cracked up to be

• Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks Staff 09/03/2006 I am a novice baseball game spectator. I never watch the game on television, because I find it boring; but I attended my first professional game

• Can a party be fun without debauchery?

• Seeing yellow

• Thelma Howell

• Eddie Laffayette Collins

• Marcie Reynolds Thomason

• NSA's Matt Davies, pictured, lobs a pass from midfield ahead for Stephen Lee who finished off the play with a goal, during the first half of the Saints' opening soccer match at Hampton Christian. Andr

• Kahne's chances of making the Chase aren't good

• Even your pet kitty can affect an ecosystem

• Saint soccer off to a hot start

• A Busch on tonight#8217;s pole

• 53 Years Ago

• Tuesday, September 5

• Search on for armed robbery suspect

• Don#8217;t judge this book by its cover

• Wakefield pair charged in Thursday incident

• Men trapped by high water saved

• The members of Greater Sweet Beulah will be celebrating their 72nd Church Anniversary during the month of September. Information regarding speakers and guest choirs will be announced at a later date.

• Retailers feel Ernesto#8217;s sting

• The SYAA Pony League (13-14 year olds) baseball team won the 2006 Pony District Championship. The tournament consisted of teams from Suffolk, Smithfield, Windsor, and Southampton/Sussex County.