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In today's newsletter:

  • How York Hall’s volunteer leader is boosting Celebrate Yorktown programs
  • Yorktown inventor helps Navy secure new shipboard targeting patent
  • How earlier battles paved the way to victory at Yorktown

Also on today's calendar: Tabb Tigers vs Arcadia Firebirds and 5 more events.

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Today's riddle: My brother swallowed a box of firecrackers. - Is he all right now? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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  • Thursday: Breezy in the afternoon, with a high of 58 and low of 53 degrees.
  • Friday: Windy; a morning shower, temps: high: 66, low: 27.
  • Saturday: Sunny and cooler, with a high of 48 and low of 39 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Business Notes: Chesapeake Regional granted provisional trauma center status, dog day care opens (pilotonline.com) — York County has named Gallery at York Hall founder and volunteer manager Sharon Owen its 2024 Volunteer of the Year, recognizing her work supporting the Celebrate Yorktown Committee and Yorktown Foundation. Her efforts help fund local programs through art sales, while the broader roundup notes new business openings, grants, and health-care developments across Hampton Roads.
   

• The R&D Dept.: Local patent roundup for 12.17.25 (richmondbizsense.com) — A recent patent roundup includes a Navy-assigned patent co-invented by Yorktown resident Aaron C. Williams, covering a shipboard gimbal trunnion platform for precisely pivoting targeting payloads. The list also highlights a range of other innovations tied to Richmond-area companies, Capital One, Apple, and more, underscoring the region’s growing role in advanced technology and defense research.
   

• Major Battles That Turned the Revolution (naludamagazine.com) — Yorktown readers get a clear, accessible walkthrough of the Revolutionary War’s key turning-point battles, culminating in the decisive 1781 siege at Yorktown. The piece explains how earlier clashes, southern campaigns, and Valley Forge all set the stage for that final victory and American independence.
   

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  • 5 Things to Know If You Are Looking for Apartments for Rent in Newport News VA (theclintoncourier.net)
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  • Allen Iverson Granted Approval From City Council For Affordable Housing Project In His Virginia Hometown (afrotech.com)

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