Western Branch Magazine
Bon Secours opens new facility
Western Branch welcomed a new facility in November that consolidates and improves services for Bon Secours Hampton Roads ...
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Millie the Marine
Story by Phyllis Speidell Photos by John H. Sheally II and courtesy of Millie Barina A tiny ad ...
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Cruising Western Branch’s ‘Automotive Alley’
It’s not quite the motor mile, but for 2,394 linear feet of Route 17 in Western Branch, there ...
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B-17 bomber visits
Jim Ritchie thinks about his dad a lot during his volunteer work with the Commemorative Air Force. Ritchie ...
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Veteran pursues Navy plates
Western Branch resident Roger Hirsh grew up in the military and raised a Navy family with his fellow ...
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A friend for the furry
Sharon Sockman has been helping animals for many years. The 18-year veteran of Chesapeake Animal Services recalls spending ...
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Let’s be better, together
By Kathy Reagan Young I was in a Western Branch retail store the other day, and the woman ...
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‘Our enemies will shake with fear’
Bearing two nuclear reactors, spanning 1,092 feet long and 256 feet wide on the flight deck, displacing more ...
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Splash time at the pool
The neighborhood pool: For many, the thought of summer days there brings memories that engage all the senses.
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Forgotten graves, remembered
Just off Portsmouth Boulevard, tucked next to the parking lot of a strip mall, the Lassiter family rests ...
