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In today's newsletter:

  • How will the new Yorktown Admirals change local hockey and business?
  • Yorktown inventor helps Navy secure patent for advanced shipboard targeting platform
  • How a Yorktown volunteer’s work is shaping local arts programs

Also on today's calendar: Christmastide in Virginia at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown and 3 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

1. Yorktown Admirals Junior Hockey Team to Debut for 2026-27 Season (wydaily.com) — Yorktown residents can look forward to a new junior hockey franchise, the Yorktown Admirals, playing home games at Chilled Ponds Yorktown starting in the 2026–27 season. The Tier II and Tier III teams aim to develop local talent, boost youth hockey opportunities, and bring fresh economic activity to York County through visiting teams, families, and expanded sports tourism.
   

2. The R&D Dept.: Local patent roundup for 12.17.25 (richmondbizsense.com) — A new U.S. Navy patent lists Yorktown resident Aaron C. Williams among the inventors of a shipboard gimbal trunnion platform designed to precisely pivot targeting payloads at sea. The broader roundup highlights several other patents tied to Virginia-based companies and inventors, underscoring ongoing regional innovation in packaging, medical devices, cooling systems, and advanced data technologies.
   

3. Business Notes: Chesapeake Regional granted provisional trauma center status, dog day care opens (pilotonline.com) — Hampton Roads business and nonprofit news includes a highlight for Yorktown, where Gallery at York Hall founder Sharon Owen was named York County’s 2024 Volunteer of the Year, supporting programs of the Celebrate Yorktown Committee. The roundup also covers new leadership appointments, major grants to colleges and charities, a new trauma center designation, business openings, and workforce training expansions across the region.
   

4. Major Battles That Turned the Revolution (naludamagazine.com) — Yorktown readers get a clear, engaging walkthrough of the Revolutionary War’s biggest turning points, culminating in the 1781 siege at Yorktown. The piece explains how earlier battles set up Cornwallis’s surrender here, showing how your hometown became the decisive stage for American independence and why that moment still shapes the nation’s story today.
   

5. Janice Robinson Colbert, 91, of Yorktown (wydaily.com) — Yorktown residents are mourning the passing of 91-year-old Janice Robinson Colbert, a longtime Peninsula resident and Bethel Baptist Church member who retired from Fort Eustis and later worked at Rite Aid into her late 80s. She is remembered by her children, grandchildren, siblings, and extended family, with interment to be held at Peninsula Memorial Park at a later date.
   

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    FOUND on December 16, 2025 in Yorktown, VA 23693 near Virginia Beach ocean front Sharing for a neighbor. For the latest information or to contact… (Nextdoor Little Bay Ave)
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