RECENT BLOG POSTS
The intersection of Holland Road and South Rosemont Rd tops the list of crash-prone crossings in South Hampton Roads.  There were 48 crashes at that intersection in 2007 which was more than any other in the area.  In all, there were more then 27,500 crashes in the area and most were at or near in...
07/30/2008
If you said anything other than Virginia Beach you would be wrong of course.  The lifeguards here recently took top honors in the South Atlantic Lifesaving Associatons Regional Lifeguard Competition.  The competition took place in North Carolina on Pleasure Island on July 16.  Virginia Beach fiel...
07/25/2008
0 Comments
A blog called Inside Suffolk Virginia asked the city of Suffolk to put them on the distribution list for news releases.  They were denied.  Granted, the group does critiques City Hall but come on.  How much effort is it to add an email address to the list.  Other cities have not been approached b...
07/25/2008
"Follow That Trash", a new Indie film was released recently.  No it didn't get to the film festival in Cannes but it is here.  The film was put out by the people at Keep Norfolk Beautiful and should be a keeper for civic groups and science classes.  The writers Holly Carson and Nicole Dutil wrote...
07/24/2008
The taxpayers of Chesapeake got a break the other day when the city's general obligation bond rating went from a AA to AA+.  This could save the residents millions in tax dollars becasuse the city will get a better interest rate on money it borrows.  The city manager, William Harrell and a team v...
07/24/2008
1 Comments
I was at the Kempsville library in Virginia Beach the other day and the smell is still there.  Don't know what is or why it is there but it is.  Back in 2006 the building was evacuated as people were having itchy eyes and sore throats.  No one knows exactly what it is but it has been blamed on hi...
07/23/2008
Calling citizens of Chesapeake and South Hampton Roads.  If you are 60 years old or older and meet certain income limits, you can apply for a free fan to help beat the heat.  Senior Services of Southeastern Virginia realizes that not everyone has air conditioning and not every one can afford it. ...
07/23/2008
  I recently bought a Toyota Camry Hybrid.  It averages about 35 mpg around town.  This picture was taken after a highway trip of 100 miles on the freeway to Newport News  and back to Virginia Beach at the speed limit.  Not too shabby.  If someone would have told me a car this big got that good o...
07/18/2008
1 Comments
According to the demographers at the University of Virginia, one in ten Virginian's is foreign-born.  That seems amazing to me as most of my buyers have been born here or so I thought.  I went back and did some research and found some of my buyers that weren't.  Certainly not as many as what the ...
07/12/2008
Obici Place is stalled and the city of Suffolk is buying back the land.  The land was going to be used for a movie theatre but that fell through and the developer, Robinson Development Group,  asked the city to exercise its option to repurchase the land.  Hopefully something good will be built wh...
07/12/2008
Rainmaker
68,020

Denise Allen

Realtor@ Chesapeake, Hampton Roads
local_phone(757) 619-0755
smartphone(757) 619-0755
Contact The Author