The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA

regional Citizens' Committee to Protect the Elderly, an advocacy group, provides volunteers to visit people in nursing homes, assisted living centers and homes. Also assists with placement decisions. www.citizenscommittee.org, (757) 518-8500

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norfolk The American Rover tall-ship schooner leaves Waterside several times daily from mid-April to late October for narrated tours of Norfolk Harbor.

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Tax rates (per $100 assessed value) Vehicles, $3.70

Suffolk

If you want to check out Suffolk - all of it - you better have plenty of time on your hands. And some gas in the tank. The city's 430 square miles - one-third the size of Rhode Island - make it the largest metropolis in area in Virginia. Some years ago, the city marketed itself as "Surprising Suffolk" to lure families and businesses to its historic downtown dotted with Victorian homes, wide-open spaces and quaint outlying villages like Driver and Whaleyville.

Chesapeake

Chesapeake is the youngster of Hampton Roads, born in 1963 with the merger of the city of South Norfolk and Norfolk County. Since then, Chesapeake has catapulted into a city of 220,000, buoyed by an influx of residents searching for a safe place to raise children, large lawns to mow and miles of nature to enjoy. Ask a longtime resident where he or she lives and chances are the answer won't be "Chesapeake." Instead, you'll hear Deep Creek, Great Bridge, Western Branch, Greenbrier or any of the...

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Gary Chalk , 53 "I grew up in Norfolk and, to me, Chesapeake is an extension of Norfolk. The location is great, and it's convenient to everywhere." Kristen Ducatte , 23

Norfolk

In its nearly 400 years, Norfolk has survived Revolutionary War cannonballs (one is embedded in St. Paul's Episcopal Church downtown), a raging Yellow Fever epidemic (it nearly wiped out the town in the 1850s) and Wayne Newton's birth (Holy "Danke Schoen"). But perhaps the biggest thing Norfolk has had to overcome is its image as being only a Navy town, home of the world's largest naval base, and not much more.

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Caitlin Berry , 18 "It's the only city in Hampton Roads that has that big community- small town feel to it." Ronald Brown , 30

Attractions Attractions

Hours and admission are subject to change. Call ahead to confirm times and prices. Battle of Great Bridge site

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regional Schola Cantorum

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