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Chesapeake is the only locality in the Hampton Roads area with a separate bridge division. The city's Department of Public Works, Bridges and Structures division has 51 full-time workers. The city maintains 90 bridges and overpasses. Included are five movable span (draw) bridges which open an estimated 30,000 times a year for water vessels. [31]
When South Norfolk merged with Norfolk County to form the city of Chesapeake in 1963, Smith High became part of the new city. The school opened in 1954 and was named after Oscar Frommel Smith (25 October 1891 – 4 May 1950), a Hampton Roads fertilizer magnate and civic leader, who had recently died [ 3 ] and whose widow, Ruth, offered the ...
Craig was elected as a member of the Chesapeake City School Board for three consecutive terms, winning a seat in the 2010, 2014, and 2018 elections. [2]In 2017, she unsuccessfully ran as a candidate in the Republican primary to be the Chesapeake City Commissioner of the Revenue.
Richard Wayne "Rick" West is a politician currently serving as the mayor of Chesapeake, Virginia. Prior to assuming the office of mayor in November 2017, he served as a member of the city council for ten years. [1] West also served as a public school administrator for over 20 years.
Chesapeake (train, 1994–1995), an Amtrak service between New York City and Richmond, Virginia Chesapeake and Ohio Railway , a former American railroad, operating from 1869 to 1972 in the state of Virginia
In 2009, a $150 million replacement project began. According to the Virginia Department of Transportation, funds designated for planned work on the nearby Steel Bridge and on Dominion Boulevard (), each also in Chesapeake, are being diverted to the Gilmerton project, which is more urgent.
The city of Portsmouth is on the left and Norfolk is on the right. USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) is heading downriver. View is to the north. The Elizabeth River is a 6-mile-long (10 km) [1] tidal estuary forming an arm of Hampton Roads harbor at the southern end of Chesapeake Bay in southeast Virginia in the United States.