Hugh Lessig
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- Sep 28, 2026
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Former Meridian CEO returns to Hampton Roads marketing scene: ‘Retirement sucks’ (opens the original)
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Joe Takach, who co-founded the Meridian Group marketing and communications firm, has come out of retirement to launch a new venture: JT Marketing Advisors. Takach in 2022 sold Meridian Group, one of the largest agencies in the region, to a former partner and a third party. The deal included a non-compete clause that has now expired, Takach said. “Quite frankly, retirement sucks and I am hungry to continue assisting clients of all industries and size in growing their brand and revenues,” he said
Decades after Mars landings, new book urges a closer look for evidence of life (opens the original)
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Fifty years ago, Viking 1 and 2 landed on Mars in search of life. Today, the results of those searches are demanding a closer look. At a symposium last week at William & Mary, Steven Benner discussed his new book, “Meet The Neighbors: Life on Mars and How to Find It.” He described how the uber-cautious scientific community backed away from the initial “life-affirmative” Viking test results in 1976 when another experiment seemed to counter those findings. Instead of a healthy back-and-forth discu
Sculpture unveiled at the African Landing Memorial at Fort Monroe was years in the making (opens the original)
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The sculpture was several years in the making, inspired by an enslaved African man and woman who arrived here in 1619 and gave birth to the first documented child of African descent baptized in the Virginia colony. The piece of art now graces the African Landing Memorial at Fort Monroe, which honors the lives, families and legacies of the first men and women forcibly transported here from west-central Africa. The sculpture, the work of Florida-based artist Brian R. Owens, was formally unveiled o
Here’s how you can reduce your power bill amid brutal heat (opens the original)
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The dog days of summer offer relaxing afternoons by the pool and extended vacations, but that monthly power bill can instantly dial up the stress. This summer has been particularly brutal. During the recent July Fourth heat wave, electrical output in the United States hit an all-time high, surpassing 100,000 gigawatt hours for the first time ever, according to the Edison Electric Institute. Closer to home, the Norfolk area set or tied record-high temperatures twice in July, including hitting 100
Inside Business Top Workplaces 2026: Giving back is a driving force (opens the original)
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TowneBank got its start in a two-car garage in Portsmouth, where Bob Aston Jr. and other founding organizers met over 1998 and 1999 to plan a community-focused bank. That also marked the start of a commitment to volunteering and support for charitable causes that has lasted to this day. “I heard enough about the conversations that happened 26 years ago to know that our culture of giving back was embedded from the very beginning, rather than being developed later,” said Vice President Katherine R
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