Lee Belote is a Bay Island resident who loves writing about her hometown for the Virginia Beach Beacon section of The Virginian-Pilot.

Hurricane Erin has weakened slightly to a Category 3 storm and, although it is slightly more south than originally forecast, is still expected to be east of the U.S. coast. Meanwhile a new system ...

Eversource was called in to repair the downed powerlines and police said the crash remains under investigation.