Beverly Blake News Today

MOUNT OLIVE TWP. – Residents of Vasa Park and the surrounding community gave a Scandinavian welcome to the season with its annual Christmas Market Saturday, Nov. 11.

View Comments After getting married in 1999, Glenn and Beverly Blake had a lot of conversations about where they wanted to live. He wanted a hill view. She wanted to be near water. It took quite some time to find just the right spot. But on a cold January day when they came across a 6-acre patch of land east of Springfield perched above the James River, they knew they’d found it. The property had nothing more than an old cabin, probably built sometime around 1900, and a concrete cellar. When ...