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By Sabrina Valle HOUSTON, May 1 (Reuters) – After nearly a century, oil output in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico is heading towards its peak with new platforms providing a last hurrah...

Howard Parmentier Are you looking for a part-time job while your children are at school? Substitute positions are available: Part-Time Positions: Manistique Area Schools (MAS) are looking for personnel interested in substituting as teachers, bus drivers, custodians, and food service personnel. Interested drivers, please contact our Transportation Director – Scott Nance at 906-252-4315 or email

For the military veterans flying the air ambulance — which marked 40 years serving Hampton Roads this week — the mission is different. But the level of concentration required is just as high.

A decade ago, Scott Nance was flying OH-58 Kiowa helicopters barely 200 feet over Afghanistan, concentrating on finding hostile fighters on the ground. Now, as one of the military veterans flying Sentara Norfolk General Hospital’s Nightingale air ambulance, he says “I’m doing graduate-level flying.”

It was Feb. 25, 1982, when Nightingale took off for the first time. It was the first hospital-based helicopter ambulance in Virginia.