Thursday, March 28, 2024

ICYMI: New prez, missing woman, election night, interracial couple and more

With dozens of headlines every day, it’s easy to miss some here and there.

Get in on the conversation with this list of WYDaily’s most-read stories from the past week.

New prez

Lembke started working with SeaWorld Orlando in 2000 in the merchandise department. During his time, he held leadership positions on the park’s operations team and was named vice president of merchandise at Busch Gardens in 2013.

There’s a new president for Busch Gardens and Water Country. He’s a familiar face

Skeletal remains

Authorities said investigators got a call from a local hunter on Tuesday who had come across skeletal remains in the woods.

Local hunter finds remains in James City County of woman missing since March

Stories from election night

(WYDaily file/Courtesy of Pixabay)
(WYDaily file/Courtesy of Pixabay)

Interracial couple

Since moving to Williamsburg, they have had to deal with racist sentiments from Koga’s family and stares from strangers in the Historic Triangle.

She’s a white doctor, he’s a black Navy officer living in Williamsburg. They’ve encountered stereotypes, racism

Post 9/11 vets

For post-9/11 veterans mental health support was sought at a higher rate and readjusting to civilian life is more difficult than it was for the vets before them.

The post 9/11 generation of veterans have more difficulty readjusting to civilian life

John Mangalonzo
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John Mangalonzo (john@localdailymedia.com) is the managing editor of Local Voice Media’s Virginia papers – WYDaily (Williamsburg), Southside Daily (Virginia Beach) and HNNDaily (Hampton-Newport News). Before coming to Local Voice, John was the senior content editor of The Bellingham Herald, a McClatchy newspaper in Washington state. Previously, he served as city editor/content strategist for USA Today Network newsrooms in St. George and Cedar City, Utah. John started his professional journalism career shortly after graduating from Lyceum of The Philippines University in 1990. As a rookie reporter for a national newspaper in Manila that year, John was assigned to cover four of the most dangerous cities in Metro Manila. Later that year, John was transferred to cover the Philippine National Police and Armed Forces of the Philippines. He spent the latter part of 1990 to early 1992 embedded with troopers in the southern Philippines as they fought with communist rebels and Muslim extremists. His U.S. journalism career includes reporting and editing stints for newspapers and other media outlets in New York City, California, Texas, Iowa, Utah, Colorado and Washington state.

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