Rosemary Thornton went to the doctor for a minor medical procedure last year, bled out and had a heart attack. For 10 minutes she had no vital signs. She died. “I popped out of my body like toast in a toaster and had a splendiferous time floating around and chatted with the angels,” Thornton said....
While you may not be able to visit exotic locations such as Chile and New Zealand, you can sample wine from there. The Avalon Center will hold its fourth annual Wine Tour fundraiser on March 9. Priscilla Caldwell, a spokeswoman with Avalon, said this is the organization’s only fundraising event....
Wednesday Triangle: Karaoke, 10 p.m. Thursday Aromas: Open Mic, 7-9 p.m. Triangle: Robert Hodge, 7-11 p.m. Triangle: LGBTQIA+ Dance Night, 11 p.m. Sweet Tea and Barley: Good Shot Judy, 7-10 p.m. Friday Triangle: Jack Campbell Blues Quartet, 8 p.m. Saturday Brass Cannon Brewing: Herbie D's Dangerous...
Yorktown’s Cabin Fever Concert Series kicks off Thursday at the Freight Shed with Caroline Scruggs and the 504 Supreme Trio. Kevin Ritchie,event planner for York County Tourism Development, said this is the concert series’ 11th year running. “The idea was kind of born out of let's try to do something...
10 Trinity Organ Concert: The concert will feature Kevin Kwan, organist and director of music at Christ and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Norfolk and dean of the American Guild of Organists Tidewater Chapter. He will perform music by Bach, Stanford, Hancock and others. A reception to follow. 1...
‘Midnight in Paris:’ A comedy about a discontented writer who finds a portal back to 1920s Paris where he hobnobs with famous writers of the jazz age. 2 p.m. Thursday at the Williamsburg Library, 515 Scotland St. Free. Friday Morning MTB Bike Ride: Join Margie McCarthy and Fran Lenahan for a fun-pace...
Coach Harold Baker is having a very successful 2019. In his role as the swim coach at Lafayette High School, he saw the Rams finish the season undefeated, and scored his 400th high school win. At the Williamsburg Aquatic Club, where he’s worked as a coach since it began in 1979, he’s overseeing...
Jamestown earned at least a tie for its first Bay Rivers District girls basketball championship since the 2006-07 season with a 52-45 win Monday at Warhill. The victory broke a first-place tie between the neighborhood rivals, and the Eagles can clinch the championship outright with a win Wednesday...
With a dominant 72-28 victory over Toano Middle School last Monday, Hornsby Middle School’s boys basketball team ended its regular season undefeated. According to coach Jamal Oweis, it’s an impressive feat, even for a team he describes as the strongest he’s ever seen at Hornsby. “We played well...
Roger Hopper easily won his fourth consecutive Colonial Road Runners Grand Prix title for the men, while Jamestown High junior Sorenna Jean edged out Tabb High teacher and coach Emily Honeycutt for the 2018 women’s Grand Prix title in the closest women’s finish ever. Those awards were among the...
Hey Virginia Delegates and Senators! How do you assure our future, improve the welfare of our society or even “Make American Great Again” when you do not fully fund the education of our children? Our children and their development are our future, right? So, at a time when fewer people nationally...
Credit Gov. Northam for pulling back the veil of decades-long deceit and revealing for Virginians and all Americans that the “progressive” left worships at the altar of abortion and even infanticide. There are two distinct lives in every pregnancy: the mother’s and the baby’s. Men and women have...
Henry Hart, the Mildred and J.B. Hickman professor of English and Humanities at the College of William and Mary, who is an award–winning poet and literary biographer, was appointed last year as Virginia’s 2018-2020 Poet Laureate. “Receiving the appointment was very special,” he said at that time...
One of the things I most anticipate when it comes to arts coverage is the Richmond Ballet. Only a short drive from here, it’s a chance to see first-class dance of all types performed by a fully professional company — a company that can offer dance delight that’s competitive with that found in many...
President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that he would prevail over a multistate lawsuit challenging his emergency declaration to pay for a U.S.-Mexico border wall. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said he expected to do "very well," against the suit, adding that he had an "absolute...
President Donald Trump on Tuesday denied a report that he asked former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker if an ally could undo his recusal in an investigation of his former personal attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen. Longtime Trump ally Geoffrey Berman, the United States attorney for the...
Several current and former Trump administration appointees promoted the sale of nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia despite repeated objections from members of the National Security Council and other senior White House officials, according to a new report from congressional Democrats. The officials...
Justice Clarence Thomas says the Supreme Court should consider overturning a 55-year-old landmark ruling that makes it hard for public figures to win libel suits, writing in a case involving a woman who says Bill Cosby raped her. Thomas took aim at New York Times v. Sullivan and similar cases that...