| The 20th anniversary âDay of Remembrance and Hopeâ in Hampton on 9/11/2021. This is the longest-running commemoration of the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks in the Hampton Roads region. Hampton held the first event in honor of those lost just 3 months after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the passengers of flight 93, who fought against hijackers presumably bound for the U.S. Capitol and died in a crash in Somerset County, Pa. Since then, it has been held annually on Sept. 11. Â Read more in this Sunday's Main News section The image of President George W. Bush learning that a second plane had crashed into the twin towers at the World Trade Center in New York as chief of staff Andrew Card whispered the news into his right ear, is one of the most iconic and debated of 9/11. Seated in a chair in the second-grade classroom at Emma E. Booker School in Sarasota, Florida, listening to 7-year-olds read from âThe Pet Goat,â Bush reacted to the news stoically. For the next seven minutes, he listened to and engaged with the students before apologizing to his host and taking leave to deal with the terrorist attacks. Read more in this Sunday's Main News section The state has exceeded 12,000 deaths linked to the coronavirus, a grim milestone in the pandemic representing the immeasurable grief families have felt over the past year-and-a-half. Virginia hit the mark last week, according to state health department data, as confirmed cases of COVID-19 swelled to at least 606,000. The new situation in the public health crisis is a seismic shift from where the nation was just two months ago, when President Joe Biden declared Americaâs âindependenceâ from the disease. Now hospitals are filling up again with severely ill patients, putting strains on staff and resources. Nearly 3 million Virginians remain unvaccinated. Â Read more in this Sunday's Main News section
Many people long for a white picket fence, but Kim Carr always envisioned hers as pink. Born and raised in Smithfield, she returned to the region in October 2019 and opened The Pink Picket Fence in Carrollton in August last year amid the progression of the coronavirus pandemic and related restrictions. âI was terrified,â she said. âBut, the community has been super supportive.â The roughly 1,000-square-foot shop sells seasonal decor, gifts, womenâs clothing, jewelry, accessories, charcuterie boards, wine glasses, candles and more. âThis is like my baby,â said Carr, who runs the shop along with niece Natalie Carr. âItâs stressful and crazy, but it also fills my cup.â Read more in this Sunday's Work & Money section
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