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Welcome to your weekly Reader Rewards newsletter!  Where you'rs truly is ready for Halloween weekend!  Although I think trick-or-treating in the neighborhood is still off limits for youngsters such as yours truly?  Ha!  If you need a breakdown on the rules for Halloween trick-or-treating across Hampton Roads, The Pilot's Ali Sullivan has it for you right here.  The days of picking out all the good candy bars from our kid's stash is unfortunately long gone.  Enjoy nonetheless! 

As we turn the corner on Halloween - moving on to slightly more forma matters - remember to VOTE on Tuesday, November 2nd!  Our civic duty/responsiblity is before us. Be sure to be heard by taking time - if you haven't already - to visit your local polling location.  State and municipal office representation: both critical to our democracy - is on the line.  As I'm sure everyone has done up to now: continue to come to The Pilot and/or The Daily Press for complete coverage on ALL of the issues and candidates.

Quite possibly the BIGGEST news of this week - especially for all of our local college football fans - is the announcement of ODU's move away from Conference USA to The Sunbelt Conference.  If you missed the scoop on this huge story this week, check out The Pilot's David Hall's analysis and recap - right here.  This was a big story as-is.  What made this an even bigger story is what followed.  For all football fans that wished both ODU and JMU had ended up in the same conference years ago - the wait is finally over.  JMU's Board of Visitors voted on the move up to FBS AND to The Sunbelt Conference.  The Pilot's Jami Frankenberry has the report on JMU. Perhaps this was just a matter of time.

There's been much frustration and concern over Pharrell Williams' decision to NOT hold Something In The Water in Virginia Beach going forward.  It was reassuring to hear that he IS NOT giving up on the city or Hampton Roads altogether.  Pharrell referenced this at an event at Norfolk State University Thursday evening.  Catch the report from The Pilot's Stacy Parker right here.

Lastly, I'm sure we've all experienced in one way or another - the challenge of some businesses here in Hampton Roads finding enough workers.  Especially restaurants and other service providers.  If you missed the report by The Pilot's Trevor Metcalfe on WHY it has been such a challenge - read up on Trevor's coverage here.  Quite a few people used these last 18 months to assess retirement options and career changes, for sure.

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COMING SUNDAY:

All eyes are on Virginia’s governor seat — and they don’t all belong to Virginians.

Political strategists nationwide are closely monitoring Tuesday’s election for the commonwealth’s leader, hopeful that it can provide a playbook for their party’s success in the midterm election next year.

As a traditional “battleground” state with mixed political allegiances, Virginia’s rare odd-year election has long drawn national attention. But the ongoing pandemic, fraught politics of recent years and near-parity in Congress have made this year’s contest especially compelling.

The candidates couldn’t be much further apart on the issues.

 Read more in this Sunday's Main News section

Ronald Davis felt like he was being buried alive.

He was barely 19, but for months during the spring and summer of 1998, he sat in local courtrooms, facing sentencing hearings for his involvement in a string of October 1997 armed robberies around Hampton Roads in which there were no injuries and Davis never even held a gun.

Each sentencing felt like another shovel of dirt.

In Norfolk, he received 13 years. In Suffolk, 22. In Newport News, 30. In Isle of Wight, 15.

Barely 19, and sentenced to 80 years in prison. Davis felt his life, his family, his future, slip away from his grasp.

That was almost 24 years ago.

Davis, now 42, has spent the last quarter-century at various Virginia prisons, including Buckingham Correctional Center, where he is now. He’s earned his GED and completed more than a dozen skills and rehabilitation courses.

Read more in the Sunday Main News section

Stephannie Scott makes it a habit to curtsy before she enters and after she exits the George Wythe House. The newly hired orientation interpreter maintains this superstition, day or night.

On several occasions, Scott said she’s seen a woman watching intently, from the upstairs window of the property as she presents her stories for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s ghost tours. Scott knows no one is in the house, so she learned early on to pay her respects to the lady of the house.

She always makes sure to strictly adhere to the tour schedule, reporting to the property at a specific time and leaving at a specific time. She deliberately brings guests through the right gate and leaves from that same gate.

If she doesn’t, bad things, especially at night, tend to happen. Despite plenty of firewood, the cresset illuminating the yard will go out. Guests will trip on things seemingly not there. Interpreters’ legs will go out from under them.

So, Scott continues her ritual. Most days, Scott swears she can see a figure move from the window, almost in approval.

“I acknowledge the fact that she’s there and I let her know that I’m grateful to be there as her guest,” Scott said.

The grounds of Colonial Williamsburg hold some of the nation’s earliest buildings. During the day, they offer an insight into the lives of those who inhabited them three centuries prior. At night, some of those same buildings seem to come alive.

Read more in the Sunday Main News section

It was the mid-1990s, and Norfolk librarian Peggy McPhillips’ phone rang.

It was someone with a British accent. The person wanted to know if the library had any handwriting samples of a James Maybrick, a British cotton merchant who lived in Norfolk during the late 19th century.

McPhillips was used to getting requests. But more calls came in the months that followed, all asking for the same, all from callers who seemed to have English accents.

Why are you so interested in this man’s handwriting, she asked one caller.

Because, the person answered, he may have been Jack the Ripper — the clue was his penmanship.

Maybrick’s name has been floated for decades as a prime suspect in the infamous, grisly 1888 London murders that targeted women. A diary purporting to belong to the killer, and confessing his misdeeds, was linked to Maybrick, though its authenticity is in question.

Read more in the Sunday Break section

Just as the pandemic began, Stephanie White was graduating from a registered nurse program.

Excited and ready to delve into her new career, she was also discouraged when she had trouble finding diverse styles of scrubs.

“I wanted to be a little different from what everybody else was wearing at our pinning ceremony,” White said.

With the long hours that nurses work — varying between eight- and 16-hour shifts, she said a variety of comfortable and fashionable scrubs are a must.

And with COVID flaring through communities, White said she knew there was even more of a need to make sure health care workers could get what they needed. She spent the past year researching brands, establishing vendor accounts and surveying health care workers to see what apparel they liked best.

On Oct. 23, White and her husband, Tremaine, opened Scrub Appeal, a uniform and medical apparel retail shop, at 648 Grassfield Parkway in Chesapeake. The 1,500-square-foot store in Cahoon Commons is stocked with scrubs, shoes, accessories and personal protective equipment. Customers can also order online for delivery to doctor’s offices and hospitals in South Hampton Roads.

Read more in the Sunday Work & Money section



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