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NORTHVILLE — It’s not every day people can find a winter carnival hosted by a dentist’s office, yet for the 19th year, Preservation Dental in Northville has been offering exactly that around the holidays.

By Brown CarpenterThe Virginian-Pilot The quiet, bucolic life enjoyed by residents of southern Chesapeake is being interrupted, some of them say, by an unsightly symbol of technological progress: the cell phone tower.Two recent applications for tower use permits in rural neighborhoods have spurred protests from people who live nearby. They have shown up at Planning Commission and City Council meetings to oppose the structures, which are rapidly showing up on the American landscape as sales of ce...