Here's your local news at a glance for Friday, the 30th of October.
Good morning, Norfolk.
🏘️ Community
Jennifer Harrison created a Hampton Roads Halloween map that marks about 30 Suffolk houses so families can plan Halloween-night visits; orange tags show simple displays and purple tags mark "must-see" yards (including a popular Strawberry Court display).
📰 Civic
The League of Women Voters of South Hampton Roads is publishing a YouTube series called Plan to Vote that features older local women sharing stories of lost rights and discrimination, and it will add more videos after the election next Tuesday with younger women reacting + discussing why voting matters.
🎓 Education
Rural Tidewater Education Consortium won a $4.1 million federal Teacher Quality Partnership grant to recruit and retain teachers over five years for Franklin, Isle of Wight, Surry and Sussex schools and will partner with local colleges to train teachers and develop school leaders.
🌲 Environment
A Clark University report released Thursday found Virginia lost about 494,000 acres of forest from 1990 to 2017, the seventh-most in the U.S., with 61% converted to cropland and 39% developed, and Pittsylvania, Chesterfield, Prince William and parts of Norfolk were top loss counties.
🏥 Health
A Federation of Virginia Foodbanks study found 42% of Virginia families went hungry at some point between May 2025 and May 2026, with Black and Latino families twice as likely as White families (WHRO's Another View on Health discussed causes and faith-based relief efforts).
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