| For years, it wasnât even legal in Virginia to begin the school year before Labor Day. Now, most of the school divisions in a region that depends on tourism are opting for an early start. When the state measure sometimes known as the âKingâs Dominion Lawâ - which required public school divisions to begin classes after the holiday unless they had a waiver- was repealed in 2019, most divisions didnât leap immediately at the chance to change their calendars. Now, virtually every school division on the Peninsula begins before Labor Day, as well as Virginia Beach. Norfolk was among the latest to make this decision for the upcoming school year, with board member Noelle Gabriel saying the shift gives students a chance to get acclimated to their classrooms so they will be âready to hit the pavementâ after the holiday. Poquson will join the trend next year as well. Portsmouth and Chesapeake school divisions have voted against an early start for the upcoming year for different reasons. Read more in the Sunday Main News section
Eleven Hampton Roads businesses are in hot water with the military, having been blacklisted by the Armed Forces Disciplinary Control Board for âunscrupulousâ business practices. A string of tobacco shops, car dealers and auto body shops and an Oceanfront bar are off limits to service members. But what gets a business blacklisted by the military? The Armed Forces Disciplinary Control Board is an investigative committee made up of members from each military branch, with community members acting as advisers, working to shield service members from illegal and unethical business practices. Read more in the Sunday Main News section Boo Williams estimates had Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) money existed for high school athletes when he coached Allen Iverson and Ronald Curry on his legendary AAU basketball teams of the 1990s, they wouldâve made at least todayâs equivalent of $250,000 to $300,000. Williams wouldâve been happy to see them, and others, receive that cash. With one caveat: No payments for high school athletes unless the Virginia High School League can effectively enforce the system for doing so and punish violators of its rules. That concern that is foremost on Williamsâ mind upon learning that the VHSL will allow athletes to profit from their name/image/likeness beginning in July. The VHSLâs Executive Committee voted overwhelmingly last month to allow its athletes to profit from their NIL â following a similar ruling by the NCAA last year for college athletes. Read more in the Sunday Main News section
On Feb. 5, after President Joe Biden ordered a Chinese balloon that had violated American airspace to be shot down, a Navy photographer took several extraordinary photographs of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 as it collected some of the debris off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. In one of the images, which has been widely reproduced since, three sailors wrestle what looks like an enormous garbage bag entangled with broken scaffolding into a small boat while a half-dozen of their colleagues stare watchfully into space; in another, the humans are relegated to the edges and the focus is on the balloon itself, an ominous, if waterlogged, mass of wrinkled white plastic. Read more in the Sunday Break section
Among Newfoundlandâs picturesque 280 municipalities is the intimate tarmac town of Gander, nestled on the northern shore of Gander Lake. The town of about 10,000 has a deeply entrenched aviation culture that is so dear to its people that most of the streets are named after pilots. Gander was a strategic post for the Allies during WWII and, during peacetime, became an emergency refueling stop for transatlantic flights. Gander residents call those who were not born on the island âcome from aways.â Thatâs the backbone of the true story behind the Broadway hit âCome From Away,â which runs Wednesday through March 5 in Norfolk. Read more in the Sunday Break section Note To Readers: A reminder that Parade magazine is now only found along with your e-edition of either The Virginian-Pilot or Daily Press each Sunday morning. Print copies of Parade magazine ceased after the November 13th issue.
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